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Re: THE INCHOATE LAWYER
by Black Unicorn 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Perhaps we should just designate the funds, payable monthly, for every month Choate doesn't post anything to the list? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Riad S. Wahby" <rsw(a)mit.edu> To: <cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:07 PM Subject: Re: THE INCHOATE LAWYER > Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> wrote: > > By my count, we now have three or four people willing in principle to > > either chip in or refund the ~$100 cost. Depending on details (we'd > > require full disclosure, of course), Choate could make up to $300 on this, > > after expenses. > > Make that total $400. I'm willing to do my part to shut Choate up. > > :-) > > -- > Riad Wahby > rsw(a)mit.edu > MIT VI-2/A 2002 > > 5105 >

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Re: FW: Internet Piracy of Planet of the Apes (fwd)
by billstewart＠pobox.com 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Sorry Measl, but by posting this information on a computer system, you are providing a computerized mechanism that simplifies the pirating process for Potential Infringers who might not have realized that they could use your "Download Planet Of The Apes From The Internet" technique to pirate that movie. This is in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, so you're busted! Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200. And your Unindicted Co-Conspirator "Fox Anti-Piracy' too... On 07/23/2001 - 18:36, measl(a)mfn.org wrote: > > Headers stripped to protect the source... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anti Piracy > Sent: 7/23/01 7:01 PM > Subject: Internet Piracy of Planet of the Apes > > July 23, 2001 > > Via E-Mail > > Re: Internet Piracy of Planet of the Apes > > Dear Colleagues: > > We at Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ("Fox") are writing to ask > for your help and cooperation in the protection of our upcoming > highly-anticipated motion picture, Planet of the Apes. Fox is the > copyright owner and owner of exclusive distribution rights in all media, > including the Internet, to this motion picture, which is being released > in the United States and certain other countries on July 27, 2001. Some > pre-release screenings are already taking place. > > As you are likely aware, technological developments currently allow the > seriously detrimental and widespread infringement of intellectual > property via the unauthorized electronic dissemination of films over the > Internet. As widely reported in the media, up to 1 million illegal > copies of first-run movies are now available on the Internet. Fox, in > cooperation with the Motion Picture Association of America ("MPAA"), the > U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI, is working to combat piracy of > films on the Internet. We hope to be able to count on your assistance > as well. > > We anticipate a high volume of Internet piracy of Planet of the Apes. > Illegal film footage posted and/or available for download on the > Internet is usually sourced from video recordings made in movie theaters > and digitally transferred into electronic video formats. As Fox is > making every effort to aggressively battle Internet piracy, it is likely > that you will notice an increase in the volume of correspondence which > you receive from Fox and/or from the MPAA. Therefore, we would like to > take this opportunity to introduce you to the department responsible for > combating this issue at Fox which is authorized to act on behalf of > Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, the copyright owner of Planet of > the Apes. Our contact information is: > > Fox Intellectual Property Department > (310) 369-4260 > antipiracy(a)fox.com X-Authenticated-User: idiom ~~~ Thanks; Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com>

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Re: Re: Air Force Turns 747 Into Holster for Giant Laser (washingtonpost.com)
by billstewart＠pobox.com 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

> My comment was limited to radiant energy weapons. As to those, the > critical vulnerability exists during launch and boost phase. The target is > slow, bright, large, has fuel on board and a nonarmored hull, which (as > other posters observed) can be weakened with enough flux. At least one of the propaganda articles said the kill mechanism was to make a hole in the hull near the fuel tank. High albedo may help the missile here as well as the warhead, though it's probably harder to deploy decoys at launch and boost phase than re-entry. > The demos are just that: demos. Given that a limited strike is best > conducted with remotely operated civilian aircraft, or plain old UPS, star > wars seems like effect of industrial lobby. The primary purpose of demos is to create public pressure to get increased funding, plus to remind the public that we still have a nuclear-war-industrial-complex that's Protecting Our Country Against Somebody, so in case EastAsia ever becomes a credible threat to Oceania, Our Brave Military will have the infrastructure to do something about it. Meanwhile of course, any foreign terrorist that wants to nuke the US with a physically small weapon only needs to pack it in cocaine and bring it in with the regular shipments, while Rogue Nations that can only make large Fat Boy style weapons need cruder methods, like bribing a crane operator to load the wrong container on a ship bound for New York or Los Angelese harbor. X-Authenticated-User: idiom ~~~ Thanks; Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com>

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Antigen found W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus
by ANTIGEN_BAMBI 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found futur.doc.bat infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: futur", was sent from Francois Tremblay and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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Canadian cameras
by George＠Orwellian.Org 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

# SCAN THIS NEWS # 7.20.2001 # # ------------------------ # # Security Cameras In Banks, # Private Business Ruled # Illegal In Canada # By Jen Ross # The Ottawa Citizen # 7-18-1 # # http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010717/5007180.html # http://www.rense.com/general12/sec.htm # # Big Brother may want to watch you, but you are legally entitled # to flick the off switch. # # That is the implication of the Personal Information Protection # and Electronic Documents Act (PIPED), which makes it illegal # for any private company to collect personal information on an # individual without their expressed consent or a warrant. # # "I could walk into a bank and ask them to turn off the camera # because it violates my privacy rights," said Peter Mantas, a # technology lawyer in Ottawa for law firm Heenan and Blaikie. # # "That would certainly put them in a huff ... (but) it would be # against the law for the bank manager to decline." # # People can also request that a security camera in a convenience # store be turned off while they are in the premises. # # Last month, in the first decision under the act, which came into # effect Jan. 1, federal Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski # told a Yellowknife security company the installation of street # surveillance cameras is unlawful. # # "People have the right to go about their business without feeling # that their actions are being systematically observed and # monitored," said Mr. Radwanski. # # The privacy commissioner has since launched an investigation # into the issue of video surveillance monitoring and will not # comment on particular cases until that investigation is completed. # # Mr. Mantas says the act has broader implications for workplace # surveillance of employees and for the use of video for consumer # profiling than have yet to be realized. Moreover, although the # act would allow a security video to be handed over to police # if it showed evidence of criminal activity, in theory, if you # can shut off the bank camera and then commit a robbery, there # would be no proof to hand over. # # "It means a lot because it's going to compromise investigations," # said Sgt. Loretta Ronchin, of the Greater Sudbury Police Service. # "I'm going to be really interested to see what happens." # # Sudbury became the first Canadian city to use closed-circuit # television monitoring of public streets in 1996. Sgt. Ronchin # says in the five years since their "lion's eye in the sky" was # introduced, there has been a 38-per-cent reduction in robberies # and assaults. They have five cameras that feed into the Sudbury # police station. # # London, Ont., Winnipeg and Toronto also opted for such systems # and various cities, including Calgary and Kelowna, are currently # looking to install cameras in public areas. # # But Mr. Mantas suspects the PIPED Act may not be applied to street # monitoring done directly by police because the act covers private # organizations. Government bodies are covered by their own laws, # which Mr. Mantas characterized as much more relaxed. # # "I think it's quite troubling," said Mr. Mantas, of the # public-private divide. "Are we to see a situation where people's # privacy is being enhanced # # in the private sector, but it is being less protected at the # level of the state?" # # Mr. Radwanski ruled that both live and recorded video pictures # qualify as "personal information" under the act. However, he # did acknowledge there may be instances where it is appropriate # for public places to be monitored for public safety reasons, # but that such surveillance must be limited to instances where # there is a demonstrated need. # # "I would think that the invasion of privacy is dwarfed by the # crime prevention that video provides," said Steve Kelly, spokesman # for the Canadian Alarm and Security Association. "If you don't # have anything to hide, why should you be upset with someone taking # your picture?"

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Antigen found W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus
by ANTIGEN_BAMBI 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found PC INFORMATION2.xls.com infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: PC INFORMATION2", was sent from Deepak Maheshwari and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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CIA oversight
by George＠Orwellian.Org 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Excerpt: The congressional ire was triggered by the CIA's refusal to participate in a committee hearing on computer security at the Agency. "Neither I nor any CIA representative will testify," wrote DCI George J. Tenet bluntly on July 17. He noted that House Intelligence Committee chairman Porter Goss "urged me not to testify." ---- SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy July 19, 2001 ** INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT QUESTIONED ** FBI MANAGEMENT CRITICIZED INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT QUESTIONED "Is the CIA's refusal to cooperate with Congressional inquiries a threat to effective oversight of the operations of the Federal Government?" That rather leading question was the topic of an unusual hearing before two subcommittees of the House Government Reform Committee yesterday. The hearing was unusual because the established structures of intelligence oversight are rarely criticized within Congress itself, and Republican committee chairmen rarely speak of the CIA with anger and indignation. But yesterday they did. "The CIA is assaulting Congress's constitutional responsibility to oversee executive branch activities," said subcommittee chairman Rep. Stephen Horn (R-Calif.) "The CIA believes it is above that basic principle in our Constitution. We do not agree." "Tell me why I shouldn't be outraged," said Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), also a subcommittee chair. "When faced with persistent institutionalized [CIA] resistance to legitimate inquiries, we're compelled to reassert our authority," The congressional ire was triggered by the CIA's refusal to participate in a committee hearing on computer security at the Agency. "Neither I nor any CIA representative will testify," wrote DCI George J. Tenet bluntly on July 17. He noted that House Intelligence Committee chairman Porter Goss "urged me not to testify." See Tenet's letter here: http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2001/07/tenet.html This prompted a fascinating discussion at yesterday's hearing of the respective oversight roles of the House Intelligence Committee and the House Government Reform Committee; the adequacy of the House Intelligence Committee's performance; the definition of intelligence "sources and methods" (which, by House rule, are the exclusive purview of the Intelligence Committee); the need to limit oversight of sensitive intelligence matters; the role of the General Accounting Office in intelligence oversight; and other fundamental issues. The questions were generally better than the answers. Some of the testimony concerning national security classification was incorrect or misleading. But the official anger at the CIA was palpable, and may yet have policy consequences for the Agency. The witness statements from the hearing are posted here: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2001_hr/index.html#oversight "It is important to curtail growing GAO initiatives to investigate intelligence activities," according to a 1994 CIA memorandum on CIA policy toward the General Accounting Office that was released yesterday. The memo, authored by Stanley M. Moskowitz (who went on to fame if not fortune as CIA station chief in Tel Aviv), is posted here: http://www.fas.org/irp/gao/ciapolicy.html

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Inf-17
by Alberto Chávez Ojeda 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

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Jim Choate's shadow
by Duncan Idaho 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Long ago, I killfiled Mr CHoate. Once in a while, though, my inbox is filled with dreck, of which Jim in the indirect origin. Really guys, for the amount of noise Jim adds to the list, there are several of you who seem to amplify it nicely. I can "slot filter" Mr Choate via killfile, but the reverberation (which I can't filter) is becoming deafening. Woody (a lurker) ---------- >From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> >To: cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com >Subject: CDR: Re: A question of self-defence - Fire extinguishers & self defence >Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2001, 7:08 PM > > At 8:35 PM -0500 7/23/01, Jon Beets wrote: >>Uhhh yes it will go through the safety glass.. Look at the pics.. One person >>had already put piece of lumber through it.. That was about a 15lb >>extinguisher... From what I can tell from the photos the protester DID >>intend harm to the police. Of course none of us were there so its really >>hard to know the truth.. > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Jim Choate" <ravage(a)ssz.com> >>To: <cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com> >>Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 6:18 PM >>Subject: A question of self-defence - Fire extinguishers & self defence >> >> >>> >>> Does throwing a fire extenguisher at a auto window constitution probable >>> cause for lethal force in self-defence? >>> >>> No. Because the fire extenguisher won't go through the safety glass. > > First, "safety glass" is said to be "safety" because it tends to hold > together instead of shattering into shards. It's not Lexan. > > Second, anyone who has spent time in a wrecking yard knows things go > through safety glass all the time. > > Third, those of us who are old enough remember that Jayne Mansfield's > head went right through the safety glass. > > Fourth, disputing Choate about the physics of safety glass is as > pointless as arguing with him over Gauss's Theorem, prime numbers, > the First Amendment, the history of Europe, law, or anything else he > has his peculiarly indisyncratic views about. > > Fifth, if someone is trying to throw a fire extinguisher through > either my front window or my side windows, I'm going to defend > myself. I expect no less from the carabinieri. > > > --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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FW: [IMC-News] IMC PRESS RELEASE: RESPONSE TO POLICE RAID ON GENOA SOCIAL FORUM AND IMC ITALIA OFFICES
by Aimee Farr 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

> -----Original Message----- > From: imc-news-admin(a)lists.indymedia.org > [mailto:imc-news-admin@lists.indymedia.org] > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 9:07 PM > To: imc-news(a)indymedia.org > Subject: [IMC-News] IMC PRESS RELEASE: RESPONSE TO POLICE RAID ON GENOA > SOCIAL FORUM AND IMC ITALIA OFFICES > > > > ------------ please distribute widely -------------- > > Independent Media Center > Ad hoc Genoa Solidarity Committee > www.indymedia.org > > RESPONSE TO POLICE RAID ON GENOA > SOCIAL FORUM AND IMC ITALIA OFFICES > > 23 JUNE 2001 > > CONTACT: > Han Soete, IMC-belgium member > han(a)skynet.be > + 32 476 533 188 > > Doug Morris, IMC-chicago member > eredgreen(a)yahoo.com > (847) 657-0182 > > Sheri Herndon, IMC-seattle member > sheri(a)speakeasy.org > 206.261.0184 > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > The Independent Media Center Network (IMC) (http://www.indymedia.org) > demands that independent journalism and journalists be protected > from state > repression. We also demand this incident of grave repression be given the > full investigation and scrutiny that it deserves. Reports indicate that > black clad provocateurs were working in conjunction with Italian Military > Police in a vicious attack on peaceful organizers. > > MIDNIGHT RAID IN GENOA > > On early Sunday morning, Italian Police stormed the IMC press office armed > with tear gas and batons. Italian military police and unknown provocateurs > simultaneously raided the school building across the street that > has hosted > various groups participating in the Genoa Social Forum (GSF) > (http://www.genoa-g8.org/) > > Persons in the IMC at the time of the raid were forced to stand > against the > wall with their hands up while police searched equipment and personal > effects. Reports vary on the number of injuries sustained by IMC staff. > IMC-Italia reports that one IMC reporter from the UK is hospitalized with > serious injuries from the attacks. Materials reportedly seized during the > raid include audio mini disks, video tapes and computer hard drives. Other > reports allege that telecommunications equipment was damaged and/or > destroyed during the raid. In the same building, the police also > raided the > Radio Gap radio station and forced it off the air for a short time. > > The neighboring school building hosting GSF organizers was where the worst > violence occurred. Eyewitnesses claim that around 50 black clad > provocateurs > first entered the street in front of the school overturning dumpsters and > creating chaos. They then removed their black sweatshirts and entered the > school and began beating those inside indiscriminately; "most of the most > savage beatings were again not done by uniformed police but by characters > dressed in jeans and bandanas and helmets with 'police' written on their > T-shirts...." Hundreds of Italian police sealed off the street and a > helicopter flew low overhead as if on a military operation. Press in > attendance was kept back at a distance. > > Many individuals were awoken from their sleep and lined up along walls, > hands over heads. The ensuing brutal assault lasted over 45 minutes... > Horrible screams from the building could be heard on the streets below. > Afterwards, the floors and walls were covered in blood. Twenty > wounded were > carried out, many on stretchers, and three were unconscious (according to > BBC reporter Bill Hayton who was present during the raid). The > injured were > taken to ambulances that arrived with the police; reports today indicate > over 50 injured. Police claimed to have authority to enter and search the > building for weapons under Article 41 (an anti-terrorist act). Later an > Italian MP, Luisa Morgantini, arrived and told the police they had no such > authority since the schools resided on state-owned property, it > was at this > point the Police and provocateurs left the building. > > The Genoa Social Forum held a press conference Sunday morning > concerning the > details of the raid. (see > http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6282) Volunteer lawyers > for activists report that computers were destroyed and that police stole > information during the raid that related to their organizational work, > including the transcripts of testimonies. Materials were also confiscated > from the IMC offices that might have provided legal documentation > of police > abuses in the preceding days. One lawyer stated, "The police blitz is > contrary to a state based upon rights and brings in a climate of terror." > > Throughout the day Sunday , the IMC newswire contained reports of > continued > police beatings of activists in Genoa, both in the streets and in the > jails... Reports indicate that many injured demonstrators are fearful to > seek treatment in hospitals since the police have been removing > people with > unexplained wounds and taking them to jail. At present over 500 hundred > people are missing and unaccounted for. > > A full investigation is called for, concerning the use of violent > provocateurs by police. Reports all weekend in Genoa have > asserted that much > of the property destruction and violent provocations were carried out by > individuals apparently working in conjunction with police and dressed like > black clad anarchists. Similar reports have surfaced in past > demonstrations > in Prague, Quebec and elsewhere. This disturbing claim and the subsequent > violence and closing of the GSF and IMC demand full attention. > > > > --------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION > ----------------------------------------------- > > IMC BACKGROUND: A FREE PRESS NETWORK > > The IMCs, or Indymedia, are a network of independent media > organizations and > hundreds of individual journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate > coverage. > > Indymedia is a democratic media outlet with the mission to create radical, > accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. The first IMC was initiated in > Seattle, in the fall of 1999, during the demonstrations against the World > Trade Organization. The center was created to ensure that diverse voices > could be heard with a clarity and focus beyond the usual chatter of the > commercial media soundbite. > > The Indymedia website is an unusual phenomenon in cyberspace: visited by > literally millions, the network has led to the creation of over fifty > collaborative sites in cities all over the world. > > For people in dozens of countries, indymedia.org is news: news > that they can > rely on, news that does not have the bias of information/entertainment > corporations who have a stake in maintaining the status quo. The open > publishing software of the web site enables anyone with a basic > computer and > modem to post immediately on the news wire, without an intervening editor. > Indymedia has created a model for collaborative work that makes a real > difference. The IMC organizes collaborations between various > types of media > (print, photo, video, radio and internet) and between diverse > organizations > and individuals. The IMCs are non-hierarchical in nature. The > decisionmaking is by consensus and all participants, including > those who can > freely post on the newswire from home, are themselves empowered. > > The growing global justice movement, which is against corporate control of > globalization and for a more democratic and inclusive process of > setting the > world's priorities and allocation of resources, has depended on, and > benefitted from, the IMCs to provide breaking and unfiltered coverage of > diverse views, conferences, and demonstrations. > > > HISTORY OF STATE SUPPRESSION OF IMC AND THE FUTURE > > The recent raid on the Indymedia Center in Genoa is the latest in a series > of intimidations and threats to this movement of independent > media centers. > > As the Indymedia movement has grown, it has been subject to increasing > repression. From the first days in Seattle, when the IMC received > a tear gas > attack, there have been indications that authorities identified the IMC > movement as a target to intimidate and silence. > > At the IMC in LA during the August 2000 Democratic National Convention, a > police raid closed down the satellite van that was scheduled to > uplink live > IMC television to a national grassroots community television network. In > Prague, the Czech police raided the IMC offices, harassing and > intimidating > journalists and others. During the days preceding the Bush > inauguration, DC > police sent spy/provocateur agents to IMC-DC meetings. > > More recently, during the FTAA protests, the FBI visited the Seattle IMC > with a request for all computer logs and a gag-order injunction demanding > that no news of the request be made public on the net. The IMC in Quebec > also suffered police harassment and an attack in which tear gas was fired > into the center. Less than a month later, shortly after the Cincinnati > uprising over police brutality last spring, police served an order on a > coordinator at the Ohio Valley IMC, also requesting records and tape logs > and to appear before a Grand Jury. > > The IMC gained a victory for the independent press community when these > injunctions were withdrawn by the FBI after The Electronic Frontier > Foundation, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the > Electronic Privacy > Information Center intervened to support the IMCs. > > The IMC global network will continue to fight hard to protect the > rights of > independent journalists around the world and to ensure that the voices of > our many diverse communities are accurately and respectfully covered and > made available to the rest of the world. As stated in Article 19 of the > Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to the > freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold > opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information > and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." > > CONTINUING IMC COVERAGE > > For ongoing coverage of the Genoa protests, stay tuned to IMC-Italia > http://italia.indymedia.org, and global IMC, http://www.indymedia..org. > > Eyewitness accounts of the IMC and GSF raids. > http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php?id=102064 > http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=8871 > > An IMC NEWS BLAST will be released Tuesday for summary, news and > updates on > the protests in Genoa. Here's the link to the first one: > http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-news/2001-July/000228.html. > > Also see: > Indymedia radio broadcasts: http://radio.indymedia.org/ > Indymedia print summaries (in distributable newsletter/flier format): > http://print.indymedia.org > IMC sites are providing detailed coverage include (see global website Left > column for links): France, UK, Belgium, Barcelona, Switzerland, Germany, > Austria, IMC-Sweden, Brasil, Argentina, Chicago, and New York City. > > > > _______________________________________________ > imc-news mailing list > imc-news(a)lists.indymedia.org > http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-news

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