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CNN.com - Afghan clerics recommend bin Laden leave - September 20, 2001
by Jim Choate 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/20/gen.america.under.attack/ -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Kill them all, take their land, and go there for vacation. Rage Against The Machine The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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SpanishDict.com Spanish Search - "mata" not found, "matar" == "kill/slay"
by Jim Choate 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

http://www.spanishdict.com/1AS.cfm?e=matar -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Kill them all, take their land, and go there for vacation. Rage Against The Machine The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Online Dictionary - English/Spanish - "kill" == "matar"
by Jim Choate 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

http://www.histopia.nl/cgi-bin/onldicspa.cgi -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Kill them all, take their land, and go there for vacation. Rage Against The Machine The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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20 Sep '01

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Ashcroft's Plans to Shred the Constitution
by Eric Cordian 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

While Bill Maher loses his advertisers for suggesting that lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away is more cowardly than personally flying an aircraft into a building, we now have a first look at the "features" present in the anti-Terrorism bill, to be submitted to Congress on Friday. According to AP, the bill permits prosecutors to use evidence collected by foreign governments, even if that evidence was collected in ways unconstitutional in the United States. It will also permit law enforcement to seize billing records of ISPs without a court order, so that they may be grepped through to identify anyone who uses the service with an assumed name. The definition of "terrorist" will be augmented to include any person who supports in any way any organization they know or should know is a terrorist organization. Criminalize the possession of chemicals that could be used in chemical or biological weapons in quantities the Feebs consider suspicious. Criminalize giving "expert advise" to "terrorists." Permit the seizing of the property of any person, organization, or country, that attacks the United States. Permit access to education records by law enforcement, without the permission of the student or their parents. Permit terrorist DNA fingerprinting, and remove the $2 million cap on rewards for fighting terrorism. The gauntlet has been thrown down. How long before the estates of "terrorists" Bill Maher and Tim May are seized at gunpoint for the Greater Good of the Reich? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Text of "Mobilization Against Terrorism Act" now online
by Declan McCullagh 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

Text of the "Mobilization Against Terrorism Act": http://vorlon.mit.edu/~declan/mata/ http://www.well.com/~declan/mata/ Background: http://www.politechbot.com/p-02531.html -Declan ********** http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/20/0333204 Text of President Bush's Anti-Terrorism Bill Now Online posted by declan on Wednesday September 19, @10:20PM from the be-sure-to-read-the-fine-print dept. For the last week, Washington has been buzzing about what may -- or may not -- be in the "Mobilization Against Terrorism Act." We now have a draft copy of MATA online that you can find at http://vorlon.mit.edu/~declan/mata/ or http://www.well.com/~declan/mata/. (Alas, it's in a series of JPG files, but if someone wants to take the large version and OCR it, please post a link in the comment thread below.) The Bush administration sent a draft of MATA to Congress late Wednesday, with the House Judiciary committee pledging "a legislative hearing followed by a full committee markup as soon as possible" once they receive the final version. We'll let you look through the bill yourself, but note how this would expand the utility of the Net's two favorite surveillance systems: Carnivore and Echelon. If you want to crib from a summary, see the outline we posted on Tuesday. EFF's press release on MATA is attached below. --- Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release For Immediate Release: September 19, 2001 Contacts: Shari Steele, EFF Executive Director, ssteele(a)eff.org, +1 415 436-9333 x103 Lee Tien, EFF Senior Staff Attorney, tien(a)eff.org, +1 415 436-9333 x102 (office), +1 510 290-7131 (cell) DOJ's Anti-Terrorism Law Would Dismantle Civil Liberties Legislate to Improve Security Not Eliminate Freedoms San Francisco, California - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today criticized the "Mobilization Against Terrorism Act" proposed by the US Department of Justice because many provisions of the law would dramatically alter the civil liberties landscape through unnecessarily broad restrictions on free speech and privacy rights in the United States and abroad. EFF again urged Congress to act with deliberation in approving only measures that are effective in preventing terrorism while protecting the freedoms of Americans. Attorney General John Ashcroft distributed the proposed Mobilization Against Terrorism Act to members of Congress after Monday's press conference at which he indicated that, among other measures, he would ask Congress to expand the ability of law enforcement officers to perform wiretaps in response to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Ashcroft asked Congress to pass anti-terrorism legislation including "expanded electronic surveillance" by the end of this week. EFF believes this broad legislation would radically tip the United States system of checks and balances, giving the government unprecedented authority to surveil American citizens with little judicial or other oversight. One particularly egregious section of the DOJ's analysis of its proposed legislation says that "United States prosecutors may use against American citizens information collected by a foreign government even if the collection would have violated the Fourth Amendment." "Operating from abroad, foreign governments will do the dirty work of spying on the communications of Americans worldwide. US protections against unreasonable search and seizure won't matter," commented EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien. Additional provisions of the proposed Mobilization Against Terrorism Act include measures which: * Make it possible to obtain e-mail message header information and Internet user web browsing patterns without a wiretap order * Eviscerate controls on roving wiretaps * Permit law enforcement to disclose information obtained through wiretaps to any employee of the Executive branch * Reduce restrictions on domestic investigations under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) * Permit grand juries to provide information to the US intelligence community * Permit the President to designate any "foreign-directed individual, group, or entity," including any United States citizen or organization, as a target for FISA surveillance * Prevent people from even talking about terrorist acts * Establish a DNA database for every person convicted of any felony or certain sex offenses, almost all of which are entirely unrelated to terrorism EFF Executive Director Shari Steele emphasized, "While it is obviously of vital national importance to respond effectively to terrorism, this bill recalls the McCarthy era in the power it would give the government to scrutinize the private lives of American citizens." Ashcroft's proposed legislation comes in the wake of the Senate's hasty passage of the "Combating Terrorism Act" on the evening of September 13 with less than 30 minutes of consideration on the Senate floor. About EFF: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most linked-to websites in the world: http://www.eff.org/ The proposed Mobilization Against Terrorism Act: http://www.eff.org/sc/ashcroft_proposal.html EFF analysis of the Mobilization Against Terrorism Act [coming soon]: http://www.eff.org/sc/eff_ashcroft.html Attorney General John Ashcroft remarks on response to terrorism from FBI headquarters on September 17, 2001: http://www.eff.org/sc/ashcroft_statement.html The Combating Terrorism Act (S1562) passed by the Senate: http://www.eff.org/sc/wiretap_bill.html Senator Leahy's testimony on the Combating Terrorism Act: http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2001/s091301.html EFF analysis of the Combating Terrorism Act: http://www.eff.org/sc/eff_wiretap_bill_analysis.html Why "backdoor" encryption requirements reduce security: http://www.crypto.com/papers/escrowrisks98.pdf

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Re: On Internet and social responsibility (fwd)
by Reese 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

At 01:37 AM 9/20/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: > >> [Imagine at this point, a .WAV file saying >> "Choate's mother was a hamster and his father >> smells of elderberries." >> and that this mail is sent to the list and not just to you.] >> >> Slander is speech. > >Slander is harming another. The fact that speech is involved is irrelevant >to the fact you're causing measurable harm to another. Simply because you >use speech as some component, and speech is protected, doesn't mean the >larger process should inherit the protection. Huh? How is quoting a well-known taunt from a skit by Monty Python harming anyone? Is humor dead in Texas? >I realize this is confusing, but keep practicing. You won't have as hard >a time as you did with sex, I promise. With you as judge, I'll take a paper trip. Reese

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we must be on someone\'s radar if XENI \'s trolling
by solaar＠hushmail.com 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Let's play a game: what is Xeni Jardin doing on this list? (a) I'm a reporter who has no knowledge on this subject but hear that cypherpunks are "hot" and maybe I can snare a story. (b) I'm a reporter who has no knowledge on this subject but hear that that cypherpunks are "hot" and maybe I can snare a story ... in the process of screwing some people (fuck 'em if they're smarter then me - isn't that your motto). (c) I'm a reporter trolling for leads and since I fucked everyone over in the Alley and Valley & no one will give me the time of day, I better get some new leads - & these are just the people to screw over next. Which is it? ... This time solaar - ----- Original Message ----- From: Xeni Jardin <xeni(a)xeni.net> To: <cypherpunks(a)lne.com>; <CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:21 PM Subject: WP:FBI investigating if/how terrorists used stego, crypto > Terrorists' Online Methods Elusive > http://www.washtech.com/news/netarch/12557-1.html > > By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Jonathan Krim, > Washington Post Staff Writers > Wednesday, September 19, 2001 > > Government agencies are contacting computer experts for help in > understanding how Osama bin Laden and his associates may have used the > Internet to send encrypted electronic messages to one another to > coordinate last week's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, > sources said yesterday. > > For at least three years, federal agents had found evidence that bin > Laden's group embedded secret missives in mundane e-mails and on Web > sites. But efforts to track down and decipher the messages have > floundered. > > Numerous, easy-to-download software applications are available online that > enable users to protect transmissions from curious eyes and frustrate > government attempts to create a systematic way to locate and screen those > messages. > > Basic encryption tools allow people to scramble messages so that only > those with a "key" can read them. An increasing number, however, go beyond > this by allowing messages to be hidden inside graphics, music files or in > the headers of e-mails. The technology, known as steganography, allows > users to get around electronic wiretaps by piggybacking messages on > seemingly innocent digital files for things such as 'N Sync songs, a > posting on eBay or a pornographic picture. > > The proliferation of this technology, people in the security community > say, is changing the rules of the intelligence game by allowing anyone to > coordinate dispersed global armies quickly and cheaply. > > Several experts in the field said yesterday they've received calls from > the government asking for their assistance. One academic researcher said > he was asked to remain on standby to help try to peel the layers off of > any encrypted messages the government might find. > > But that might be the easy part. Sources close to the investigation said > the few messages investigators have intercepted in the past did not take > advantage of encryption techniques. The challenge, at least in this case, > has been finding the messages in the first place. > > Neil Johnson, associate director of the Center for Secure Information > Systems at George Mason University, which receives funding from the > government, said steganography is powerful because messages can > effectively be hidden almost anywhere. > > Johnson's recent research has focused, with some success, on how to crack > it by examining a site, image or data stream for signs that steganography > was used, he said. > > Mark Loveless, a computer security consultant with BindView Development > Corp., said the technology is also popular because if it's used properly > it would be almost impossible to trace the author of the message and the > recipient because of the random way in which files are distributed from > user to user using swapping services such as Napster and Gnutella. > > In the wake of the attacks, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) has proposed making > it mandatory that software developers give government security agents the > "keys" to encryption programs when they are created, a position strongly > opposed by many in the technology community who worry it could be used to > invade the privacy of law-abiding computer users. > > Phil Zimmermann, the creator of a popular encryption technology, said he > believes the answer to catching the terrorists lies in human footwork > rather than more surveillance technologies: "It's not practical to frisk > everyone on the planet to find the one person with a box cutter." > > The government has been waging war on data-scrambling technology on > several fronts for more than 30 years. It has asked Congress for stricter > rules on exporting the technology and has taken the developers of such > technology to courts. Most recently, the NSA created a whole department to > try to "leverage emerging technologies and sustain both our offensive and > defensive information warfare capabilities," according to a recent > document outlining its cryptography strategy. > > At a closed congressional hearing last year, one federal official said > that U.S. intelligence is "detecting with increasing frequency the > appearance and adoption of computer and Internet familiarity" in the hands > of terrorist organizations. "The skills and resources of this threat group > range from the merely troublesome to dangerous," the official said in a > submitted statement. "As we know, Middle East terrorist groups such as > Hezbollah, Hamas and Osama bin Laden's organization are using > computerized files, e-mail and encryption to support their organizations." > > That view was echoed by Ben Venzke, an intelligence and cyber-security > consultant in Virginia who assists several government agencies. > > "Groups like them are very intelligent," he said. "They are very wise in > the ways of tradecraft and operational security and will make use of any > tools that are available," he said. > > > > > > > > Back to Washtech.com Home > > ) 2001 The Washington Post Company > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wlsEARECABsFAjupjkMUHHNvbGFhckBodXNobWFpbC5jb20ACgkQA+AG7HGrzYqoIACg pNqq9+Zt8ID4BdZYfJFapR7JcmoAniOfaAPQUfqG9lnd+j5+RTRNHEVw =PIVc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: On Internet and social responsibility (fwd)
by Jim Choate 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: > [Imagine at this point, a .WAV file saying > "Choate's mother was a hamster and his father > smells of elderberries." > and that this mail is sent to the list and not just to you.] > > Slander is speech. Slander is harming another. The fact that speech is involved is irrelevant to the fact you're causing measurable harm to another. Simply because you use speech as some component, and speech is protected, doesn't mean the larger process should inherit the protection. I realize this is confusing, but keep practicing. You won't have as hard a time as you did with sex, I promise. > Courts often find them punishable or at least privately actionable as torts, > but to say they're "acts" and not "speech" is just weasel-wording Not at all. It's recognizing a significant, but subtle distinction. One you miss by a mile. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Kill them all, take their land, and go there for vacation. Rage Against The Machine The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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An interesting excerpt...
by Jim Choate 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

"To strike at the mother country where it was most vulnerable, embargoes were declared on all British goods carrying import duties. And the Sons of Liberty attacked anyone who did not observe the ban by the liberal use of tar and feathers and riding a rail. The fiercest opposition to Britian's revenue laws was staged in Boston, the principal port of Massachusetts, where a militant group of agitators - led by an ex-tax collector, Samuel Adams, and a local merchant, John Hancock - conducted a campaign that skillfully combined violence and sophisticated legal and political strategy. Radicals were now sitting not only in the elected Massachusetts Assembly, but on the Executive Council that governed the colony." Those Damn Rebels: The American Revolution As Seen Through British Eyes Michael Pearson SBN 399-10800-9 LCCCN 71-163414 -- ____________________________________________________________________ Kill them all, take their land, and go there for vacation. Rage Against The Machine The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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