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by Aloha700 25 Jul '01

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by Aloha700 25 Jul '01

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Antigen found W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus
by ANTIGEN_BAMBI 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found Comprimise.doc.com infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "Comprimise", was sent from owner-cypherpunks(a)sirius.infonex.com and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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RE: Air Force Turns 747 Into Holster for Giant Laser (washingtonp ost.com)
by Petro 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

At 1:43 AM +0300 7/24/01, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >But I also think the question Choate posed is a valid one: what happens when >the target is *not* a ballistic missile, but people, equipment and vehicles >on the ground, normal aircraft, or air-to-air missiles? One would think that >the lower velocity differentials and expected distance-to-target make aiming >much easier, and that effective counter-measures would be significantly more >difficult to erect, considering that such conventional targets have >properties very different from those of ballistic missiles (e.g. aircraft >raise questions of aerodynamics and payload efficiency, wearable materials >with albedos high enough are difficult to come up with, rotation and >aerodynamic engineering cannot be used to dissipate the heat generated by a >hit, people/cars/tanks/whathaveyou often need to be difficult to spot using >aerial and satellite imaging, and so on). > >Such weapons capability could be *quite* useful, especially if the 747 can >be effectively defended against anti-aircraft missiles, and the laser has a >range and targeting capability on par with anti-ballistic missile >applications. Hits on critical infrastructure, control over a nation's >airspace, death-from-above FUD, that sort of thing. > IANALS (laser specialist), but I am given to understand that with the high energy demands of these types of lasers, and the problems with getting good energy levels through airborne dust, clouds, etc (and especially in combat areas where dust and other airborne particles are rather common) make lasers less than ideal against ground or low flying targets. Against high flying aircraft, you may be right.

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The Martian Private-Socialist-Anarchist
by Jim Choate 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

http://www.marsanarchy.org/MarsPrivSocAnarch.htm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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by Millennium Shape Up 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

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Rallies on Monday
by Len Sassaman 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

http://www.boycottadobe.com/pages/rallies.html is now the home for the rally announcements. If you're planning on attending one, please visit this page for info. If you're holding one, please let us know so we can add it to the page. Thanks! -- Len Sassaman Security Architect | Technology Consultant | "Let be be finale of seem." | http://sion.quickie.net | --Wallace Stevens

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FBI not as incompetent as recent reports say
by Tim May 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Wen Ho Lee, Robert Hanssen, screwed-up lab tests, failure to detect Aldrich Ames, missing handguns, Waco, Ruby Ridge...the portrait of a dysfunctional agency, right? Far from it, from what I can see. Some of the examples are marginally silly, some are due to pressures from bureaucrats, some are things which virtually no organization on earth could have detected. I'm not a particular friend of the FBI, as the Seattle and Portland offices will probably acknowledge, but I seen no particular _decline_ in quality such as the article Matt Gaylor posted suggests. The spotlight is much brighter today, there are many more reporting outlets. And the Net magnifies conspiracy theories. (I believe Waco was mishandled badly--the preacher should have just been picked up by the local Sheriff or arrested on one of his many trips into town or walks along his fence. And I believe Ruby Ridge was an example of a barricade situation which didn' t need to happen. The "crime" of selling a long gun with a barrel one quarter of an inch too short was both a "set up" (to induce cooperation by Randy Weaver) and shouldn't have been a crime in the first place. These are mistakes, not evidence of a Bureau that has become incompetent or malevolent.) The Wen Ho Lee case is much more mysterious. Maybe he _was_ a Chinese spy...certainly China is an emerging superpower with the willingness to recruit spies. We do it, the Russians do it, the French and Germans do it, why not the Chinese? What about missing weapons? Well, large organizations lose all kinds of things. Including guns. Big deal. Hanssen? The Sovs knew that recruiting agents within the FBI's counter-spy division was the equivalent of recruiting agents at Los Alamos in the 1940s. Did the FBI miss some warning signs? Probably. Did Jim Bamford miss some warning signs? Yep. (Bamford was a friend of Hanssen's.) How about the bad lab results? Sure. Shit happens. But, all in all, I see no particular evidence that the FBI is in a state of moral or professional collapse. I think I'd rather have been working for Louis Freeh these past 10 years than a weirdo like J. Edgar Hoover and his queen Tolson. (I had and still have profound disagreement with Freeh and Jim Kellstrom (spelling? I used to know his name, but it escapes me right now) over things like Clipper, key escrow, and no knock raids, but I thought they were competent, professional, and intelligent adversaries. They never knew who I was, obviously, but we were in the same competency league. In my opinion, of course.) Thinking of the FBI as Keystone Kops is dangerous, which is why I am writing this note. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay(a)got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns

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Even law enforcement hearings in Congress now classified
by Declan McCullagh 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Title: 7/24/01 Media Advisory - Coast Guard Drug Interdiction Hearing To Be Closed To Public NEWS U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure U.S. Rep. Don Young, Chairman Contact: Steve Hansen (Communications Director) (202) 225-7749 Justin Harclerode (Communications Assistant) (202) 226-8767 To: National Desk July 24, 2001 * Media Advisory * Coast Guard Drug Interdiction Hearing To Be Closed To Public Washington, D.C. - The Thursday afternoon hearing by the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation regarding the United States' drug interdiction strategy is expected to be closed to the public. The Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), is expected to vote to close the hearing to the public because sensitive law enforcement information will be discussed. Only Committee members, Committee staff, and essential personal staff will be allowed to remain in the hearing room after the hearing is closed. # # #

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Kallstrom
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Did an interview for Time "Digital" 2 or 3 years ago. Just threw my copy away. Equated limits on the effectiveness of domestic crypto with speed limits. Pretty much spewed the party line. Had quit to work for a bank. google it : james kallstrom fbi cryptography http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.98.07.13-98.07.19/msg00018.html

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