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by 1support＠microsoft.com 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

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MATT DRUDGE // DRUDGE REPORT 2001� - Delta Force gets bloody nose, intensity scares the crap out of everybody...
by Jim Choate 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash33.htm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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: Maine National Guard bars Green Party leader from flying
by Sandy Sandfort 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

Reese wrote: > You didn't really read the interview, > did you? > > The dumb cunt brought it on herself. Yeah, just like all those other rape victims... S a n d y

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Metricom assets sold for $8.25 million
by Bill Stewart 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

By the time this article got forwarded to me, the URL for the original article was gone, but the title's pretty indicative :-) www.metricom.com has a "goodbye" page, with pointers to the bankruptcy auction for interested bidders. A google search reveals that back in September, Metricom turned down Aerie's offer for $20M (oops), and also that Aerie had been planning to spend $3.5B to build a 20000 mile fiber backbone for the ISP they wanted to be. >From: "Steve Stroh" <steve(a)strohpub.com> >To: "Dewayne Hendricks" <dewayne(a)warpspeed.com> >Subject: Metricom assets sold for $8.25 million >Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:36:19 -0800 >MIME-Version: 1.0 > > >Dewayne: > >What's not mentioned in this article: >* What Aerie bought was mostly intellectual property - the software and >designs for the radios, patents, etc. >* Unclear is if Aerie bought the existing inventory. Apparently there are >lots of radios already manufactured, but not deployed, sitting in storage. >* Metricom's WCS spectrum is not included in the sale to Aerie (apparently >the asset managers feel that it will fetch considerably as much as $50M - >sometime). Unlikely given AT&T Wireless Services' decision to junk their >Fixed Wireless System which will free up more WCS spectrum. >* None of the physical assets of the network are included in this sale, >including poletop radios, wired access points, network operation center, >etc. All of that was "abandoned in place" to free Metricom of the liability >of back rent, lease payments, and other liabilities. >* Rights Of Way were similarly abandoned... > >It'll be interesting to watch! For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/

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by usanz11＠excite.com 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

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Wed 7 Nov Stanford - Provos talks on Detecting Steganogaphic Content on the Internet
by Bill Stewart 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

Niels Provos will be talking at Stanford on Wednesday, just a few hours before the EFF BOF at the Linux shindig in Oakland. Does anybody have a picture of a Peter Honeyman related shirt to auction off on E-Bay with appropriate embedded content? :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:33:53 -0800 From: ee380 <ee380(a)shasta.Stanford.EDU> Fnord-content: low, with scattered Elvis later in the evening Subject: Detecting Steganogaphic Content on the Internet * Niels Provos, UMich * W4:15 COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM 4:15PM, Wednesday, November 07, 2001 NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03 Topic: Detecting Steganographic Content on the Internet Speaker: Niels Provos CITI, University of Michigan About the talk: Steganography is used to hide the occurrence of communication. Recent suggestions in US newspapers indicate that terrorists use steganography to communicate in secret with their accomplices. In particular, images on the Internet were mentioned as the communication medium. While the newspaper articles sounded very dire, none substantiated these rumors. To determine whether there is steganographic content on the Internet, this talk presents a detection framework that includes tools to retrieve images from the world wide web and automatically detect whether they might contain steganographic content. To ascertain that hidden messages exist in images, the detection framework includes a distributed computing framework for launching dictionary attacks hosted on a cluster of loosely coupled workstations. We have analyzed two million images downloaded from eBay auctions but have not been able to find a single hidden message. [see the abstract at http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380 for a list of resouces and related news articles. -dra] About the speaker: Niels Provos is a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Information Technology Integration of the University of Michigan. His research interests are focused around computer security. Contact information: Niels Provos CITI, University of Michigan 535 W. William Street, 3rd floor Ann Arbor, MI GPS: 42.2775 N, 83.754167 W. 734 764 5207 provos(a)citi.umich.edu Acknowledgements: Thanks to the Computer Forum for support. The Computer Forum is the industrial affiliate program for the Computer Science Department and the Computer Systems Laboratory. Contact Suzanne Bentley, bentley(a)cs.stanford.edu, if your company is interested in participation.

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Using Thermite to Drop Suspension Bridges...and U.S. plans to do so
by Tim May 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

Cypherpunks, Here's an item I sent to another forum about using thermite to cut the cables on suspension bridges. A couple of folks had claimed that using explosives on the piers and other support structures would be extraordinarily difficult to arrange (and detectable by bridge security personnel). I agreed, but noted in my piece that thermite quickly placed on the main cables could cut or weaken the cables significantly. (Merely damaging the cables by more than about 30% might require, for liability and public perception reasons, the shut down of the Golden Gate Bridge for as many months or years as it might take to replace the main cable--the cable is a continuous one, and is not "segment-replaceable." It is possible that some clamp bypass might be possible, but I would be skeptical that clamps could handle the tension.) An interesting part of the URL chunk included below is that the DOD endorses use of "peacetime" operations to collapse bridges...surely an act of "terrorism" comparable to bringing down the World Trade Center. (Oh, I forgot, if the CIA does it to a country we are not at war with, it's "nation-building," not terrorism.) I found this URL, and several equally-interesting ones, as part of my research on using thermite to collapse suspension bridges. Looks like the U.S. military has been planning similar ops for a while...could be why the alerts are being taken seriously by the gubmint. --begin excerpt-- From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> Date: Fri Nov 02, 2001 12:26:29 AM US/Pacific To: tcmay(a)got.net Subject: Re: Dropping the Bridges is Easy [[ This message was also posted as: <021120010026271382%tcmay(a)got.net> ]] More comments on using thermite to drop the bridges: In article <011120012309364728%tcmay(a)got.net>, Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> wrote: A conventional medium- or low-velocity explosion would not hurt the piers, obviously. Too massive, and MV and LV explosions, by definition, have little effect on such structures. Even a high-velocity explosion would have a hard time wrecking the piers. However, suspension bridges are obviously subject to having the suspension cables cut. Enough RDX would do the job even on the massive GG Bridge. However, there are lower-tech ways to do it even more easily: A thermite blanket wrapped around one of the main suspension cables of the Golden Gate would probably drop the span. Hitting both cables would be best, and matches the M.O. of the 911 attacks. A truck pulls up, stops, a few men wrap the cable with 60 pounds of thermite. Once ignited, should cut through the thousands of strands like butter. (A thermal lance might also do the job, but would require a man to aim the lance for long enough. This man could be taken out and the plan thwarted. Wrapping the cable is preferable...once that thermite process starts, essentially nothing stops it.) I found some sources showing that the intelligence services around the world are already planning to use such methods ("in peacetime," which many would call "terrorism," unless it's done by the U.S. of A.). Some quotes from http://www.ndu.edu/inss/books/milgeo/milgeoch11.html The Institute for National Strategic Studies, part of the National Defense University at Fort McNair and in Norfolk, VA. Note the mention of thermite, and the cutting of suspension cables. Note also that the manual is talking about doing these things as an act of terrorism (covert, against civil facilities). "Covert operations that conceal the identity of, or permit plausible denial by, perpetrators moreover may be politically prudent, especially in "peacetime." ....Brittle cast iron breaks easily, but acetylene torches or thermite may be needed to slice nickel-molybdenum steel, which strongly resists conventional explosives. Proper placement is at least as important as destructive power..... Professionals whose mission is to stop road and river traffic temporarily cut supports at one end of truss bridges so affected spans fall in the water; they cut trusses at midspan to make bridges buckle if long-lasting destruction is the intent. Massive towers and thick cables on major suspension bridges resist powerful explosive charges, but slender suspenders that hang therefrom do not--roadway sections collapse if they are cut." --end excerpt-- --Tim May ""Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." --Patrick Henry

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CNN.com - Preservationists collect 9/11 tapes, fliers, Web pages - November 3, 2001
by Jim Choate 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/03/rec.attacks.preservation.ap/index.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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CNN.com - Serious charges dropped against firefighters arrested at WTC melee - November 3, 2001
by Jim Choate 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

Good...now let them recover the bodies in a dignified (and timely) manner. http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/03/rec.attacks.wtc.ap/index.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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The Sunday Times: Terrorism - Revealed - the bloody pages of
by osama_ben-laden＠hushmail.com 03 Nov '01

03 Nov '01

>http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/11/04/stiusausa02024.html > >The sophistication of some parts of the manual has alarmed intelligence agencies, which have asked counter-terrorism experts given access to the document not to discuss or release key elements, particularly on bioterrorism. We were forced into limited self-publication when none of the major media outlets would handle it. I guess some properties are just too hot. We find the praise being heaped by these agencies gratifying. It has created a broader market for what we thought would be a niche property. Announcements to follow. obl

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