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web.archive.org Internet archive to open ---google + archeology
by Tolan Blundell 28 Oct '01

28 Oct '01

Excellent idea as the wayback is it really doesn't seem to capture anywhere near as wide a range of pages as google, and it also seems to be straining under the weight of requests. the number of internal server errors it generates is absurd, especially considering the size of some of it's sponsors. perhaps a google mirror that was archived periodically would be a better bet? tolan -----Original Message----- From: Bill Stewart [mailto:bill.stewart@pobox.com] Sent: 27 October 2001 04:37 To: Tolan Blundell Cc: cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com Subject: Re: web.archive.org Internet archive to open ---google + archeology It's not as outrageous as you'd think. 100GB drives are around $200, which means that a terabyte will cost you about $3K if you throw in a PC and some networking gear to connect it, so you could replicate that in your basement next to your DES-cracker for about the same price - the more expensive problem is getting the fiber optic connection from the Presidio to your basement to keep it updated. More to the point, recent news articles say the Feds have been getting Google to delete things for them. http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/current/msg00505.html Anybody know what's been deleted, and whether it's still in Wayback, and whether we can get copies out into the public before anyone pressures Brewster Kahle? At 06:10 PM 10/25/2001 +0100, Tolan Blundell wrote: >Thats fine, I've got a 100TB server in my attic you can use if you want? ;) >jbdigriz: >Way cool. It needs to be mirrored, though. Single point of >failure/distribution invites history being rewritten the way it always >has been until now. > > http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-102501archive.story > > By JOSEPH MENN, Times Staff Writer > > > > SAN FRANCISCO -- An Internet archive containing more text than any > > library in history will open its digital doors today, giving researchers > > and the public access to just about everything posted on the World Wide > > Web over the last five years.

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Ignore Me. Really...
by Anonymous 28 Oct '01

28 Oct '01

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"Meet the computer criminals: they'll see you in your office" (DUMM DUMM DUMMMMmmm...)
by Luthor Blisset 28 Oct '01

28 Oct '01

So, it looks like IBM is paying people to socially engineer their way into datacenters and such - Richard Marcinko meets Bruce Schneier, or something. Regardless, nothing new here method-wise, but it's funny to see. http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=99302 -- Luthor //Remembering is copying and copying is THEFT

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[RANT] Why Bin Laden Hates --the single-issue theories are wrong
by attila! 28 Oct '01

28 Oct '01

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Anti-terrorism bill's "expiration date" may not mean much
by Declan McCullagh 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> -----

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The new Internet archive
by Pier Carlo Montecucchi 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

Do you know the URL address of this new Internet archive? Pier Carlo Email: pcmontecucchi(a)compuserve.com "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes " (Marcel Proust) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Subcommander Bob" <bob(a)black.org> To: <cypherpunks(a)lne.com> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:45 AM Subject: web.archive.org Internet archive to open ---google + archeology > > Hey Mitch --Another part of your permenant record > > http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-102501archive.story > By JOSEPH MENN, Times Staff Writer > > SAN FRANCISCO -- An Internet archive containing more text than any > library in history will open its digital doors today, giving researchers > and the public access to just about everything posted on the World Wide > Web over the last five years. > > The free archive, created by a San Francisco computer entrepreneur named > Brewster Kahle, allows academics to conduct the electronic equivalent of > archeological digs, rooting through reams of material illustrating the > evolution of the Web and its role in American society. > > The Internet Archive, informally called the Wayback Machine, holds more > than 10 billion Web pages dating to 1996, including millions that had > vanished as dot-coms collapsed, big companies scaled back or updated > their offerings, and hobbyist Webmasters lost interest. > > Researchers and academics have likened Kahle to a modern-day Andrew > Carnegie, the steel baron who endowed many of the nation's finest > libraries. > > "Libraries are dedicated to collecting and making available the > permanent historical record," said Diane Kresh, the Library of Congress' > director for public service collections. She said trolling the Net is as > significant as gathering books or periodicals. > > Want to see what the Heaven's Gate cult page looked like before the > group's mass suicide? There it is. Want to see how Yahoo's pages have > changed since 1996? Step this way. Pages published by everyone from > Fortune 500 companies to renegade porn merchants are stashed in the > Internet Archive. > > The five-year, multimillion-dollar project has amassed five times as > much text as the Library of Congress, which helped fund the archive > along with Compaq Computer Corp., the National Science Foundation and > the Smithsonian Institution. The more-than 100 terabytes of data are > housed on 300 modified Hewlett-Packard desktop computers in a basement > at San Francisco's Presidio. > > The effort to record Internet history has been directed and largely > financed by Kahle, a 41-year-old former supercomputer technologist who > sold one Web firm to America Online and another to Amazon.com. > > "The opportunity of our time is to offer universal access to all of > human knowledge," Kahle said Wednesday from his office in the Presidio, > a decommissioned military base near the Golden Gate Bridge. "We're at a > unique point in time to offer universal access to anyone who walks into > a library in Uganda." > > The Internet Archive uses automated "bots" to scour the Web. They > capture sites and return what they find to the computers at the > Presidio. The archive updates every two months. Once captured, the sites > are organized chronologically. Users type in a Web address, and the > archive displays versions of that site since 1996. > > Sites that require passwords or block bots are not captured. And if > someone objects to their site being copied, the archive removes it. > > As smaller, less accessible versions of the archive were being compiled, > Kahle's 30 staffers got a few complaints. After the staff explained that > it wasn't personal, that they were copying everyone's sites, the vast > majority decided they didn't mind, Kahle said. > > "Most people say, 'You're crazy, but go for it,' " Kahle said. "People > want to be part of history." > > Candidates to use the service, at web.archive.org, include academics, > journalists and researchers. > > "It will allow researchers to study the evolution of the Web in a way > that is unprecedented," said research scientist Ed Chi of the Xerox Palo > Alto Research Center. He said Xerox PARC scientists already are working > on new user interfaces based on what the archive showed them about how > people looked for information. > > Early on, "we suspect people will go look for their own pages and see if > they can get copies of things that they've lost," Kahle said. "We're not > exactly sure how this is going to be used. We're looking forward to > being surprised." > > Like many Internet pioneers, however, Kahle faces unfamiliar risks along > with the opportunities. The Internet Archive may be a massive violation > of copyright law. > > "Brewster is taking an extraordinarily personal risk, because this is > potentially a criminal offense," said Lawrence Lessig, an expert on > intellectual property in cyberspace at Stanford University. > > Kahle doesn't anticipate getting sued, let alone serving jail time. His > plan is to post whatever he can--and keep the archive growing. > > "We're not here to test laws," Kahle said. "We're trying to build a > world we want to live in. The world without a library is a world without > a memory, and that would be tragic." > > The legal questions may take years to resolve, Kahle and Lessig said. > > Consider the Industry Standard. At least some of that defunct magazine's > articles are back online through Kahle's archive. But shareholder IDG > paid more than $1 million for the Standard's assets, including rights to > those stories. An IDG spokeswoman declined to say whether the company > would ask the archive to drop the articles. > > Kahle said he isn't worrying about the hypotheticals. He's more excited > about finding early www.whitehouse.gov pages from 1996 that dealt with > airport safety and bioterrorism. > > Even better is what's to come. > > "The woman who is going to be elected president in 2024 is in high > school now, and I bet she has a home page," Kahle said. "We have the > future president's home page!"

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Smith & Wesson (SAFH) Super-Light Hand Gun
by Stocks 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

[Stockupticks.com] [Image] [Image] Welcome to Stockupticks.com Newsletter Issue #13 - October 26, 2001 [Image] [Image][Image] [Image] e-Blast [Image] *** Important News *** [Image] MA Union News Reports New Smith & Wesson Super-Light Guns Could Be Carried By Flight Crews On Commercial Airliners In the Spring of this year, Stockupticks brought you the story of a small-cap company that produced firearm safety and security products. That company, Saf-T-Hammer (OTC BB: SAFH) later acquired legendary gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson. One of the products in development at that time was a gun made from a new, lightweight, exotic-metal alloy making the gun easier to carry and conceal. Due to interest in using this weapon for arming flight crews on commercial airliners, the dealer response has been tremendous. [Image] (see article below) ----------------------------------------------------- [Image] Business News Lightweight revolvers hot item for S&W Wednesday, October 24, 2001 By WILLIAM FREEBAIRN A new line of ultra-light revolvers in stores this month is proving a success for Smith & Wesson, which can't keep up with demand. The new guns are among the first in the world to use scandium, a metal that has been used in Russian fighter jets and baseball bats. They are being marketed under the AirLite Sc label and all are capable of firing a powerful .357-caliber Magnum round that had been previously unavailable in such a lightweight gun. The smaller revolvers, which weight just over 11 ounces, have been shipping for several weeks; larger guns should reach dealers in the coming days. "It's a hot item," said Herb A. Belin, handgun product manager for Smith & Wesson. "Our constraint is our production rate." The guns are more expensive than stainless-steel revolvers. New guns carry a suggested price of between $700 and $800 each. The lighter guns are likely to be purchased by people who want them for personal defense, especially those with permits to carry concealed weapons, Belin said. Officials said developing the guns using the new metal took longer than expected and taught them some lessons in metallurgy. In high-speed video footage of the gun firing, the frame and barrel moved dramatically due to the scandium alloy's flexibility. "That gun does the rumba," Belin said. Designers increased the size of some parts of the gun to reduce flexing. Titanium was used in the cylinder for strength, but testing showed it was also needed in the center pin and other parts of the weapon. Steel is used for the hammer and trigger. "This taught us to make even stronger, tougher guns," Belin said. Scandium is a little-known metal that occupies a place on the periodic table immediately before titanium. Discovered in the late 1800s, it found use in the former Soviet Union, which had a virtual monopoly on the supply from the Ukraine. The Soviets used it in fighter jets and missile parts. When the Soviet Union broke up, the metal began to see more widespread use, for example in aluminum baseball bats and mountain bike frames. Although scandium costs about $7,000 a pound, the amount needed to mix with aluminum and other alloying agents is small. Adding a little scandium to aluminum strengthens the material more than twofold, Belin said. Its weight will increase the number of people willing to carry it, Belin said. "You don't need a holster. You can carry it in your pocket." The lightest of the scandium guns is less than half of the weight of the lightest .357-caliber Magnum the company made before. Because of their light weight and flexible scandium-aluminum alloy frame, the guns deliver a rapid "kick" to the hands of the person firing them. "Recoil is an issue," Belin said. The gun can fire less-powerful rounds than the .357 magnum, for example the .38 special, that can reduce recoil. "You really have to work at not flinching (when firing,)" Belin said. Smith & Wesson officials believe there may be another market for the super-light guns. They have developed a prototype scandium alloy gun that could be carried by flight crews on commercial airliners. There have been calls for flight crews to be armed, although no steps have been taken by the government in that direction. The Smith & Wesson prototypes are black with an internal hammer, so they could be carried in a trouser or jacket pocket without catching on the fabric. The guns could be modified to fire a lower-velocity round, which is less likely to cause damage to an aircraft, officials said. The prototype air crew guns have not been publicly revealed before, Belin said. A spokesman said the prototypes are simply a design concept and will not necessarily be produced or be shared with people outside the company. © 2001 UNION-NEWS. ABOUT SAF-T-HAMMER (OTC BB: SAFH) [Image] Saf-T-Hammer Corporation is a firearm safety company focused on preventing unauthorized gun use and unintentional firearm accidents. Saf-T-Hammer customers include sporting goods distributors, law enforcement distributors, law enforcement retailers, law enforcement agencies and gunsmiths. Saf-T-Hammer acquired Smith & Wesson, one of the worlds leading producers of quality handguns and law enforcement products, in May of this year. Law enforcement personnel, military personnel, target shooters, hunters, collectors and firearms enthusiasts throughout the world have used the companys products with confidence for nearly 150 years. 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Re: FBI wants to have "Internet Off-switch"
by AARG! Anonymous 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

They'll probably lean on the big boys, the backbone providers like MCI, Sprint, Cable & Wireless, etc. CALEA put taps in those providers, so it's just a matter of expanding the data streams they're "allowed" to scan. Anyone know of a tunneling package that'll handle an OC3?... Cheers - > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:13:23 -0700 > From: Larry Diffey <ldiffey(a)technologyforward.com> > To: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: FBI is at it again Per the following article: > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37203,00.html > it appears as if the FBI now wants to route ALL Internet traffic through > it's central servers!!!! What gall!! What nerve!!!! > Now, for all of you who said, "Hey, I'm not doing anything wrong, let the > FBI monitor what it wants to." can go shove hot spikes up your nose. > I don't think the FBI really wants to control the Internet, they want to > destabilize it. As tyranny approaches the only thing more dangerous than > an armed populace is an informed one. If they can monitor all the traffic, > they can certainly control it. The ISP's (whatever those are) need to > collectively tell the FBI to go jump off a bridge. Information campaigns > need to be sent to the customers to alert them of the potential loss of > civil liberties. I'm gonna stop before I say something that will get me > arrested. > > Regards, Larry Diffey

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Re: coderpunks spam (fwd)
by Jim Choate 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:49:33 -0400 (EDT) From: V Alex Brennen <vab(a)e-techservices.com> To: coderpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: coderpunks spam I'm willing to host a new list, or a companion list. I can serve as moderator of the new list, if no one else wants the job or objects. I'm also willing to run a companion web site with an archive and a copy of advogato if people are interested in that. I proposed once before that mlm software be put in place so that coderpunks would only accept PGP signed messages from subscribers and messages from anonymous remailers. I'm still interested in working cryptography into the mlm that the list runs on at some time, although not in the immediate future. I have benefited greatly from technical discussion lists on cryptography implementation while working on my own projects. I'm about to start working rather heavily in PKI and would like to enjoy the benefits I saw from coderpunks and other technical forms continued and expanded. If no one objects, let's move ahead with this. I've been thinking of unsubscribing myself from coderpunks because of all the spam. I intend to run the lists from my personal web site, cryptnet.net, which has T1 bandwidth (burstable to more than) and runs on a linux machine running sendmail which has adequate process power to deliver mail in a reasonable amount of time to > 1000 people. Should the lists be separate or joined? - VAB --- V. Alex Brennen IBM Certified Specialist e-TechServices.com IBM Business Partner Bus: 352.375.6273 Fax: 770.216.1877 Mobile: 352.246.8553 vab(a)e-techservices.com

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Tracking Spores
by John Young 27 Oct '01

27 Oct '01

What better way to carry spores in the US's strongest fortress, Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, than by way of the President seeking protection from a September 11 threat? When told of the WTC attacks was he not visiting the region of the first spore attacks? Prior to 911 CMOC regularly conducted tours of the facility which it recounts on its Web site: https://www.cheyennemountain.af.mil/cmoc/ What better way to spread spores throughout DC's most secure facilities than to use members of Congress and staff as vectors, not just the Capitol but the refuges set aside for wartime use? To be sure, all those who have fled spore threats have likely served as vectors, as in the past did asbestos workers and animal hide handlers who took the contaminants home with them. The WSJ reported yesterday on the Anthrax Capital of North America, a tri-county area in southern Texas where cutaneous anthrax infections are common. The soil of the region is claimed to be the richest source of anthrax in the country. Locals have no fear of the spores, antidotes are sold in cattle feed stores. This is not to suggest that the People's Republic of Texas is out to get its Connecticut carpetingbagging cowpoke for messing with the dirt-rich downhomeland. South Texas, for those who never studied our homegrown stone-age, is right there with Afghanistan in deviousness, monomania, religious fundamentalism, treachery, animal copulation, lying, infecting Yankees, abusing immigrants, and sending one-nation-only-Texas-Texans up north to prey on people who believe they are superior for losing the war of 1845. Choate, and me, will never forget the insults, you miserable sonsabitches, breath deep and die.

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