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IP: MSFT and our nuclear arsenal (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:41:54 -0400 From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Reply-To: farber(a)cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: MSFT and our nuclear arsenal >Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:40:36 -0400 >Subject: MSFT and our nuclear arsenal >From: Kai Lui <kai(a)kailui.com> >To: Dave Farber <dave(a)farber.net> > >An interesting piece from the Washington Post if you haven't already seen >it. Unfortunately (or fortunately), the specific MSFT software is not >identified. > >Kai Lui >------------------ > >Nukes: A Lesson From Russia >By Bruce G. Blair >Wednesday, July 11, 2001; Page A19 > >Although the United States spends nearly $1 billion every year to help >Russia protect its vast storehouse of nuclear weapons materials from theft >or sale on the black market, few Americans know how this aid helps >strengthen America's own nuclear safeguards. > >Russian experts at the Kurchatov Institute, the renowned nuclear research >center in Moscow, recently found what appears to be a critical deficiency in >the internal U.S. system for keeping track of all bomb-grade nuclear >materials held by the Energy Department -- enough material for tens of >thousands of nuclear bombs. > >Kurchatov scientists discovered a fatal flaw in the Microsoft software >donated to them by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This same software >has been the backbone of America's nuclear materials control system for >years. The Russians found that over time, as the computer program is used, >some files become invisible and inaccessible to the nuclear accountants >using the system, even though the data still exist in netherworld of the >database. Any insider who understood the software could exploit this flaw by >tracking the "disappeared" files and then physically diverting, for a >profit, the materials themselves. > >Full article at: > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44053-2001Jul10.html For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/

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Re: General Ashcroft make his move
by George＠Orwellian.Org 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Jimminy Critic wrote: # # Where is that boundary condition in the amendment? Saying "felons # may not own firearms" is certainly an infringment. Rights don't # come from the state after all (see 1st two para's of the DoI). # # Amendment II # # A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of # a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, # shall not be infringed. Gee, how pure and simple. What is your position on the First Amendment and: o "obscenity" o child pornography o generated non-child child pornography

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13 Jul '01

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Thoughtcrime in Australia
by Eric Cordian 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

No sooner has that guy in Ohio gone to the slammer for 10 years for his naughty diary, than some judge in Australia has fined a person $10k for downloading naughty text stories on the Internet. Will www.nifty.org and www.assgm.com survive? And in a very odd and cleverly worded op-ed piece... http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/34569.htm The New York Post has suggested that locking up Mr. Dalton was wrong because he didn't show his story to anyone, while observing in passing that such a sentence would have been just fine if Mr. Dalton had "posted his story on the Net", or "shown it to a friend." Goodness, we can't have that, can we? Kind of makes one side with those who believe that the solution to god-soaked religious cretins is an emergency lion-breeding program. ----- http://www.thewest.com.au/20010712/news/perth/tw-news-perth-home-sto15793.h… July 12, 2001 Child porn fiction gets fine of $10,000 By Bronwyn Peace A MAN has been fined $10,000 for possessing stories about child pornography even though the judge said they were not as serious as pornographic pictures because they were fictional and there were no victims. ... Last month, prosecutor Gail Archer told the court that Keogh should be jailed for the pornographic stories, which were found on his home computer by his stepdaughter's boyfriend. She said the stories, which detailed gang rape, bestiality and incest, had titles such as Bonnie Goes Camping, The Little Homewrecker and Prince and His Princess. "All of the stories are quite detailed, quite graphic and incredibly unpleasant," she said. Ms Archer said Keogh admitted to police he owned the stories but said he did not know they were illegal and that they helped him cope with his past abuse. She said any downloading of child pornography encouraged the exploitation of children. ... The judge said Keogh, who until now had led a blameless life, deserved a significant fine. -- 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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Digital Cash
by Ray Dillinger 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

I've been attempting to design a decentralized auction/ exchange system that permits pseudonymous participants. By 'decentralized', I mean that NO central server, or subset of individual servers, controls access to any resource the system cannot work without; that there is no single point of failure. A consequence of this is that every ability that exists in any node, must exist in every node. So the whole problem of currency issue gets the slightly weird solution of "everybody has to be able to print their own money." The sticking point is that this basically means the system will be without any single universal "currency". A lot of E-cash techniques are usable, but what you wind up trading is certificates that represent goods or services offered by individuals in the system -- Alice the Farmer might issue certificates for bushels of wheat, while Bob the Carpenter might issue a bunch of certificates that say "collect a thousand of these and I'll redeem them for a new 10x10 meter deck on your house" and Carol the moneychanger might promise to redeem hers for one US dollar each, just for the amusement value of "redeeming" something in a system where hard currencies are the norm with a fiat currency. So these would be effectively a sort of digital merchants scrip, reducing back down to barter. Exchange rates between the currencies issued by different participants would fluctuate according to trust and commodity values, and I'm okay with that. Given the nature of the trust/reputation thing, I'd expect only a very small percentage of the participants to *actually* issue their own currency, as they wouldn't get good acceptance/exchange values until widely known, but everybody would have the ability. The problem I'm running into is that while all kinds of e-cash protocols exist that protect the anonymity of the buyer and a lot protect the anonymity of the seller, there are none that protect the anonymity of the currency issuer, which would be ideal in this circumstance. With the techniques I know of, the issuer can have only "Nym" protection. The basic problem with anonymizing the issuers (beyond technique alone) would be how the scrip gets redeemed when you don't necessarily know whom the issuer is. Can anybody recommend appropriate reading? Bear

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Re: Most of a nation on probation (GPS convicts)
by Anonymous Coredump 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Alfred Qeada wrote: > Please list the companies. > > What state are you in? In some states the evil weed is more evil than > others. Thank you. We will now begin contacting these companys and asking whom they have turned down for due to drug related convictions. We hope to have you under surveilance within a week. This is PROTECTIVE surviellance, mind you. We just don't want you to make any mistakes that you may regret later. Big Bro

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Fundamental Theorems of Cliology (A Candidate List)
by Jim Choate 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

These are candidates only, they are intended to foster focused discussion. Fundamental Theorem of Cliology - Who get's to make the choices? - What are the permissible choices? - The first two are auto-catalytic Definition of Society - The cornerstones of any society are - toleration - self-defence - A set of rules, codified or not, and expectations, expressed or not, which regulate both the individual and inter-personal activities of same - Societies may be radically different in content and yet share the same geography - The statics and dynamics of a society are governed by the physics of reality and the psychology of the individual (and it's absolute range) - The expectations of societies can be in direct opposition - Violence does not ensue from opposition but from lack of toleration of opposition - This applies to all levels of societies and seems to be psychology independent (in other words, all life seems to follow it) - As a result, stability can be looked upon as a measure of tolerance Definition of 'crime' - Any act which harms a person, their property, or breaks a public trust without consent - What is a 'public trust'? - A contract entered voluntarily (at the point one questions the compliance but complies they have consented - no expectation of continued consent is implied) to provide service to the community or use a public resource - What is a 'public resource'? - A resource which is common to all and is required for basic individual survival or social operations Fundamental Axiom of Law - The codification of social rules, commonly called 'rule of law', is an extension of the right to self-defence - A defining characteristic of any society is to whom the 'right' falls to (ie some mix of individual or group) - A fundamental defining character is whether the rights of society extend from the individual, or rather the rights of the individual stem from the population Definition of Civil Liberty - The ability to make 'a choice' with respect to individual or classes of decisions - This is the primary defining character of any human society or relationship -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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RE: Most of a nation on probation? (GPS convicts)
by Aimee Farr 12 Jul '01

12 Jul '01

Hey Lyn, I know, I know.... actually, I'm a baby privacy, surveillance law/policy and investigative law lawyer. I'm still in my first few years of practice, so I haven't advertised an area yet. (Choosing a practice area is a gut-wrenching decision, nailing yourself to it is even more difficult.) So, yeah...I hear how sucky the bumper beepers are. BUT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE WE TO LET CPUNKS KNOW ABOUT MY PRACTICE INTERESTS, or I will get covered up in crazies. Raytheon, whatever... *laughter* ~Aimee Lyn Kennedy wrote: > And as usual, this was written by some PR flack without a clue. GPS needs > at least three satellites visible to determine location (not "a" sat). > Also it doesn't work inside most houses. The frequencies used are even > attenuated by trees. Much more by wood, bricks, etc. Even though there > might be some advantages, it's mostly a way to rip off the taxpayers for > more money. > > > BTW, one of your notes said you are in Waco. What kind of law do you > practice? Should I keep your number handy in case I get arrested for > watching planes at TSTC airport while munching my Whopper? Or do you > work for Raytheon? > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | 73, E-mail | lrkn(a)anet-dfw.com | > | Lyn Kennedy webpage | http://webusers.anet-dfw.com/~lrkn/ | > | K5QWB pony express = P.O. Box 5133, Ovilla, TX, USA 75154 | > ---Livin' on an information dirt road a few miles off the superhighway---

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