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USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds
by Karsten M. Self 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

Irradiation equipment is being considered for mail processing, heard both over NPR's Morning Edition, and referenced in a story posted to Yahoo!: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ksat/20011022/lo/932238_1.html KSAT Monday October 22 08:39 PM EDT Safety Concerns Grow Among Postal Customers, Inspectors [...] The U.S. Postal Service said Monday that it is looking into a technological method that could block the movement of anthrax in the mail. Postal Inspector Doug Turner said the postal service has studied how radiation equipment used to kill bacteria in foods could help against the germ threats. "The radiation would kill the bacteria that might be involved with the mail," Turner said. But there is no official word on whether the irradiation equipment would make it's way to San Antonio. [...] I would hope that relatively short-term leases are being considered. Or is this going to be a long-term threat? Any pointers on packaging for photographic and/or magnetic media through mail to survive irradiation equipment? How about the magstrips on all those credit cards issued through the mail? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself(a)ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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[RANT] National ID Card System Failing to Attract Supporters
by attila! 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

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More on F(u)ck Nortel & F(u)ck China's Golden Shield & JungleMUX
by Matthew Gaylor 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

[Note from Matthew Gaylor: I purposefully choose the "F" word to describe my utter contempt of Nortel for supplying the technology to China used to suppress free speech and freedom. Several of my readers did the usual hand wringing worrying about getting the "F" word in their Dilbertized corporate business environments. Of special interest to the Brin watchers out there is "the promotion of JungleMUX which allows video surveillance data to be transported from remote cameras back to a centralized surveillance point at the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS)". Naturally several of my subscribers didn't get an opportunity to even read my original uncensored post due to their filtering software catching the dreaded "F" word and rejecting my post. Here are a couple of examples: At 12:04 PM -0400 10/22/01, postmaster(a)bellsouth.com wrote: >From: postmaster(a)bellsouth.com >Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:04:59 -0400 >To: freematt(a)coil.com >Subject: Re: Fuck Nortel & Fuck China's Golden Shield > >WE CANNOT HANDLE ANY REQUESTS THAT DO NOT FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN >THIS EMAIL ----- Based on an automated review of the content in a >message you sent to BellSouth personnel, the message appears to be >unsolicited commercial e-mail or to contain content that we deem >inappropriate for our business environment. The message has been >blocked from delivery. BellSouth.com is the BellSouth corporate >domain and messages addressed to users at this domain are for >delivery to BellSouth personnel on BellSouth corporate e-mail >systems. If you intended to send your message to a user at BellSouth >Internet Services, our public Internet service provider, please >readdress it to <user>@bellsouth.net. If your message was intended >for BellSouth personnel and feel you received this message in error, >please forward this message, the address that you are trying to send >to, and any questions to postmaster(a)bellsouth.com ><mailto:postmaster@BellSouth.com>.(Q1-1) And At 11:47 AM -0400 10/22/01, <MAILER-DAEMON(a)picker.com> wrote: >Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:47:58 -0400 >X-Autogenerated: Reply >From: <MAILER-DAEMON(a)picker.com> >To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt(a)coil.com> >Subject: Bad words.. > >Matthew Gaylor <freematt(a)coil.com>! >We got your message <v04220804b7f9e8a91d7c(a)[198.4.94.208]> >on Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:27:59 -0400. >With the Subject: >Fuck Nortel & Fuck China's Golden Shield >Please remove the bad word from the Subject and send again. Nortel helping China to overhaul state surveillance architecture <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22401.html> By John Leyden Posted: 22/10/2001 at 16:40 GMT Human rights activists have launched an attack on Nortel Networks, accusing it of contributing to human rights violations in China by helping the country overhaul its ageing surveillance technologies. The "Great Firewall of China", which controls content entering the country, is failing, largely due to the increased volume of Internet traffic in China, so the Chinese are looking to build a more sophisticated system involving content filtration, and the monitoring of individual users. That's one of the main conclusion in a report by The International Centre of Human Rights & Democratic Development (ICHRDD) which states: "Old style censorship is being replaced with a massive, ubiquitous architecture of surveillance: the Golden Shield." "Ultimately the aim is to integrate a gigantic online database with an all-encompassing surveillance network - incorporating speech and face recognition, closed-circuit television, smart cards, credit records, and Internet surveillance technologies," it adds. Many other Western firms are also involved in the development of China's state security apparatus but Nortel, which like the human rights group, is based in Canada, has come in for particular criticism in ICHRDD's report. Among the Nortel projects singled out for criticism are: Nortel's joint research with Tsinghua University on speech recognition technology, for the purpose of automated surveillance of telephone conversations The Canadian firm's support for FBI plans to develop a common standard to intercept telephone communications, known as CALEA, in conjunction with technology transfer through its joint venture, Guangdong Nortel (GDNT) The promotion of JungleMUX which allows video surveillance data to be transported from remote cameras back to a centralized surveillance point at the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) The deployment of Nortel's "Personal Internet" suite in Shanghai, "greatly enhancing the ability of Internet service providers to track the communications of individual users" A US$10 million project, involving Nortel, to build a citywide fibre-optic broadband network in Shanghai (OPTera) enabling central authorities to monitor subscribers at the "edge" of the network, principally through the Shasta 5000 firewall. Nortel's integration of face recognition and voice recognition technology in collaboration with AcSys Biometrics, a subsidiary of Canadian firm NEXUS Nortel is no stranger to controversy with its Personal Internet technology, which was criticised on its announcement in February by consumers activists and anti-junk mail campaigners, and has rejected ICHRDD criticism. "Nortel Networks categorically rejects in the strongest possible terms the notion that we are collaborating with any government to repress the human rights or democracy of its citizens," a statement by Nortel said. "Nortel Networks is a longstanding supplier of advanced telecommunications products and technology in China where we have a broad range of customers. Nortel Networks sells the same range of products and solutions in China as we do elsewhere." This response cut little ice with ICHRDD which believes Nortel's technology will be used to clamp down on political dissent. On September 28, four Chinese citizens were tried for subversion for participating in an on-line pro democracy forum. The four are but the most recent of several arrests in recent years for Internet-related crimes. Pacific rim leaders are expected to announce an "anti-terrorism" pact at the APEC summit this week which human rights advocates fear could be used to excuse increased crackdowns on Internet privacy and human rights, particularly in authoritarian states such as China. R --- ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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Re: FBI considers torture as suspects stay silent
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

"Jon Beets" <Jon.Beets(a)pacer.com> wrote : > >The military's rules of engagement are very explicit... Anyone giving an >order to break those rules are themselves committing a crime.. The integrity >to stand up and say its wrong is what has been taught in the military over >the past few years as "Moral Courage"... I am not saying the rules don't get >broken but if even one person speaks up about what happened then your >looking at a very long time of making big rock into little rocks..... > Most likely any high-value prisoners would be transferred to non-military actors and whisked away. The sole obligation of the military would be to keep quiet. > At the same time would we risk torturing prisoners > when we have preached for years for other countries > to stop this exact same thing... > Absolutely YES, if the stakes are high enough. The potential for these guys having acquired or manufactured exotic weapons and their apparent willingness to use them makes it a high-stakes game. >My bets are on the Al Qaeda personnel who want to tell all.. The ones who >are so proud of what they have done they will let you know whatever you >want... > They generally seem to do a good job at staying mum in the US courts. >Jon Beets > Mike

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Cypherpunks idiots list
by Nomen Nescio 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

Posters to the cypherpunks list can be divided into idiots and others. Idiots seldom contribute anything useful and love to fasten onto threads which require no more than their uninformed opinions. Interestingly, many of the idiots work at low-paying jobs like system administration, and several of them are unemployed. The lists below can't cover everyone, but here is a sampling of recent posters. Note: if you are an idiot, you may not like being informed of this fact. Nevertheless you will find few non-idiots who will disagree with your classification. Go ahead and ask for anyone on the non-idiots list to vouch for you, if you have the balls. Idiots Jim Choate (lifetime member) Harmon Seaver Karsten Self J.A. Terranson Steve Furlong James B. DiGriz Reese Non-idiots Tim May Bill Stewart Sandy Sandfort Greg Broiles John Young James Donald Lucky Green Eric Cordian Declan McCullagh (marginal) Adam Back Adam Shostack Eugene Leitl

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Just A Coincidence <nod-nod> <wink-wink>
by sonofgomez709 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, three major web sites dealing with mind control have disappeared with no explanation or contact from their owners: http://www.mindcontrolforum.com http://www.ritualabuse.net (and ../MCF/) http://www.cahe.org CJ Parker <sonofgomez709(a)yahoo.com> http://profiles.yahoo.com/sonofgomez709 http://members.w-link.net/~sog/INDEX.HTM http://jya.com/cejfiles.htm "The True Story Of The InterNet" The Xenix ChainSaw Massacre http://www.technopagan.org/politics/xenix/ WebWorld & The Mythical Circle Of Eunuchs http://www.technopagan.org/politics/webworld/ InfoWar: Final Frontier Of The Digital rEvolution http://www.technopagan.org/politics/infowarriors/ Space Aliens Hide My Drugs http://www.technopagan.org/politics/sahmd/

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MATT DRUDGE // DRUDGE REPORT 2001�
by Jim Choate 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

http://www.drudgereport.com/matth2.htm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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24 Oct '01

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by RWBRIGGS 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

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Slashdot | Holographic Sonar Cryptography
by Jim Choate 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

http://slashdot.org/science/01/10/23/2215256.shtml -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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