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SPOT infrared satellite image of Manhattan
by Stewart, William C (Bill), BMSLS 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

Shows New York harbor, big plume of smoke and two visible fires. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 5:00 PM To: ip-sub-1(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: SPOT infrared satellite image of Manhattan >SPOT infrared satellite image of Manhattan, acquired on September 11 at >11:55 AM ET. Image may be freely reproduced with "CNES/SPOT Image 2001" >copyright attribution: > http://www.spot.com/home/news/NYC-091101.jpg For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/

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12 Sep '01

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An Open Letter on Privacy and Anonymity
by Eric Hughes 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

2001 September 12 An Open Letter on Privacy and Anonymity Fellow Citizens of the United States of America: I am moved to write as a founder of a movement that, far beyond my own efforts, has eloquently expressed an ideal, the ideal of privacy in society. Privacy is not uniquely American, yet it is at the core of the American ideal, at the core of free speech that enables human connection, at the core of free association that builds society up from a savage state, at the core of liberty. I helped to start cypherpunks, a movement for privacy in the digital world. Cypherpunks is a diverse movement with no explicit doctrine, yet with a deep shared desire for human liberty. Let none who call me friend say that the events of September 11 are anything other than a dark day upon humanity. In the midst of the violence, I see a thirst for the taste of the blood of vengeance in the mouths of many of my fellow citizens. I see that destruction will ineluctably ride upon the opponents of the country of these my fellow citizens. So be it. I do not seek here to forestall or to avoid the violence directed toward the perpetrators of these deeds. I write as a citizen of the United States that our country may avoid a self-inflicted wound against liberty. The terrorists have struck a blow against liberty, it is said. The terrorists will strike again, it is said. I say to all, let us not strike the second blow against ourselves. Today we are seeking an enemy unknown, an enemy who is hiding, as well they ought to. The thirst that drives our country forward now cannot be slaked without the apprehension of those responsible, and we have yet to identify or find them. We now have a great temptation before us, to lash out at those amongst ourselves who may be thought to have given succor to our enemies, at those amongst ourselves who may be thought to still provide them solace and deception, and at those amongst ourselves whom some dislike for unrelated reasons. I wish to repeat again the words of Governor Davis of California, who spoke yesterday that "we are all Americans." We are all Americans, and we should not attack ourselves. We are all Americans, and we should not fight each other in the streets. We are all Americans, and we should not turn our law enforcement apparatus and our national security infrastructure against the very liberties that we all hold dear. The goal of these terrorists is to restrict freedoms in America, to steal its essence and to weaken it. I shall pray we do not cooperate with this their goal in a hot-headed rush to immediate results. Let the anger of this country be cold and calmly directed, that the accompaniment of wrath be precision. The terrorists are cowards, it is said. Shall America be a coward to itself? We have an excess of strength to expend upon our opponents, be they external or internal. We will find that there are internal champions of liberty that have without conspiracy or knowledge furthered the plans of our opponents, who have taken advantage of the liberties that America offers all who enter her shores. Many of these champions I know personally, because cypherpunks have enabled liberty on-line to all takers, without discrimination and without distinction. Let the prevailing wrath be directed not against those to promote liberty, but those who consciously seek to destroy it. We need not curtail our liberty in order to save it. The message is seductive that we may more effectively fight for liberty if we limit our freedoms for a time whose end has yet to be announced. Yet this is not the message of America, but of several of its vanquished enemies. For liberty is not fair-weather clothing that may only be worn when the weather is good. Liberty is rather the jewel in the locket, the most prized possession short of family and life itself. We diminish ourselves if we rationalize our freedom away in an evanescent fog of rhetoric about efficiency. Liberty is not efficient; it is expensive and tortuous, and as an American people we desire it before most everything else. As we enter a new century, let us demonstrate the true strength of an open society -- that it can withstand the threat of demagoguery even as it remains a powerful actor against an external threat. This is the ideal that our strength may manifest, that a democracy may express its power as a democracy itself, and not as a police state masquerading as one. I stand with the Federal Congress and sing "America, my home, sweet home." For I live upon this land and soil, with other people who have set their lives along the course of freedom. I pray that we may all pass through this dark time with the dignity of our own ideals intact, that we may pass through to the other side with renewed vigor to pursue the cause of freedom over all the earth. My heart grieves with those who have lost, yet it also rejoices that we might yet undergo this ordeal as a country and emerge stronger and more faithful to our own nature. May peace be with you all, with the fullness of your existence in tow. Eric Hughes [Please feel free to post this at will.]

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FOXNews.com - Dump Tenet (CIA Director) Movement Underway
by Jim Choate 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

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Re: �� .
by Informative.Communication＠toad.com 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

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What George Should Have Said
by attila! 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

What George should have said: My Heavenly Father, Please forgive me for protecting thy people. I ask this in the name of thy beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior Amen FIRE!

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Teoria 2
by João Barreiras 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks

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terrorism
by Tim May 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

[Tim's note: This is from John McCarthy, Professor of Computer Science (or AI, or similar) at Stanford. Prof. McCarthy was the originator of the term "artificial intelligence," invented the language LISP, and has been a creative thinker for many decades. I have always admired his no-nonsense approach to problems. I ran across this article in rec.arts.books.] > Path: sjcpnn01.usenetserver.com!e420r-sjo4.usenetserver.com!sjcppf01.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!newsfeeder.randori.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!not-for-mail > From: John McCarthy <jmc(a)Steam.Stanford.EDU> > Newsgroups: rec.arts.books > Subject: terrorism > Date: 12 Sep 2001 09:56:32 -0700 > Lines: 38 > Message-ID: <x4hzo80cpq7.fsf(a)Steam.Stanford.EDU> > NNTP-Posting-Host: steam.stanford.edu > X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" > Xref: e420r-sjo4.usenetserver.com rec.arts.books:98083 > > 1. The media and the politicians have made this attack a "national > emergency" as well as an act of war. It is an act of war but an > emergency only in New York and Washington. If we regard ourselves as > at war with the terrorists, we should minimize the disruption their > actions cause rather than exaggerate it and increase it. Some > universities in California and most of the public schools closed > because of the alleged emergency. I'm pleased that Stanford > University stayed open. > > 2. It has been the policy of the airlines and the FAA that flight crew > should obey hijackers on the grounds that the policy saves lives. Up > to now it has saved lives, but the number of lives lost today far > outweighs the number saved in toto by the past policy. One of the > cell phone calls recounted that the hijackers herded the crew and > passengers to the back of the plane. Unless there is some guarantee > that this kind of hijacking won't happen again, it will be safer to > arm the crew to fight it out with hijackers, both for the safety of > passengers and for the safety of possible targets. I believe this is > the Israeli policy, and there has been exactly one hijacking of an > Israeli plane, and that was the very first hijacking of all. > > 3. I suppose the crew of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania had > heard about the WTC crashes and decided to fight it out rather than > let the hijackers crash the plane into a public building, but very > likely they weren't adequately equipped and trained for this. > > 4. Feminist note: The flight crew is often just two men, sometimes > including a woman. The cabin crew is much larger. If hijackers are > to be fought, the cabin crew, mostly female, should be prepared to mob > them and inspire passengers to help. > > 5. Putting an armed plain clothes security guard on each flight would > also work. It just adds one person to the crew. > > -- > John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305 > http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/ > He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

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Re: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon
by Declan McCullagh 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:59:57PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: > CNN at one point showed the ground track of the flight (it was available > on some website). The flight kept it's normal track (slightly north of > west from Boston) until it crossed over the NY state border. Soon after > that, it took a sharp left turn and headed south for NYC. But not a straight > line - it was clear that they were following the Hudson River. Another explanation: Could they be following a usual flight corridor to deflect suspicion? I have no idea if this is the case, but it would make sense to have such corridors above water, if only not to annoy residents overmuch. That's what National does, more or less. > Further on the skills thing - at one time I toyed with the idea of getting > a private pilots license, and even took a couple lessons. I found that the > experience I had gained using a Flight Simulator program on a PC was > invaluable, particularly for getting the hang straight-and-level flight, > making > coordinated turns, changing altitudes, etc, which are all the skills that > the terrorist would have needed. Agreed, if they were flying small one or two engine planes. Not sure if that translates as well to a large, modern jet aircraft. > This morning the local media here in Massachusetts were reporting that > a bag for the flight which fortuitously failed to get on the plane was > found to contain a Koran, "Islamic materials", and a videotape on > flying commercial jets. Clearly, someone who was already a commercial > pilot would not have needed the latter item. Maybe I'm being a little suspicious, but why in the world would a terrorist who doesn't want to be caught and doesn't need the videotape (can't watch it on the plane, realistically, I presume) any more take it on the plane with him? -Declan

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Re: NSA monitors domestic cellular
by John Young 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

NSA can legally acquire any signal at any time without restriction. It is limited in what it can do with communications of "US persons" that are acquired as part of the overall intake. USSID 18, NSA's manual for electronic interception, describes in great detail these procedures with particular emphasis on how to handle intercepts of US persons to comply with legal restrictions. So the agency can intercept everything in the electromagnetic spectrum, and apparently does so. And, if given a special order to do so, it can subject communications of US persons for analysis and reporting outside the agency. It does take a special procedure to do this which is described in the manual. One type of intercept that is unique, and that is data concerning crypto which may be acquired and stored in perpetuity for later analysis no matter from whom it is acquired, including US persons.

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