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21 Jun '01

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FBI decrypts a madman
by George＠Orwellian.Org 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

Hey, Declan, in your free time, find out about the encryption... http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20010621_108.html # # DUDLEY, Mass. (AP) Nancy Surprise left her 7-year-old son alone # in the car one day while she ran into the post office, and # returned to find a 280-pound man sitting on top of the boy. # # But when the man was hauled into court, Surprise says, prosecutors # insisted the best way to handle the case would be to make him # go far, far away. # # Prosecutors cut a deal in 1991 with the man, Nathaniel Bar-Jonah: # no jail time, two years of probation, and he must keep his promise # to move to Montana and live with his mother. Bar-Jonah headed # west. # # And it is there that he stands accused of crimes far more # horrifying: He is suspected of butchering a little boy and # serving the remains in dishes cooked up for his Montana # neighbors. [snip] # # In 1999, Bar-Jonah was arrested outside a Great Falls, Mont., # elementary school, again dressed as a policeman. He was carrying # a stun gun and pepper spray. # # A search of his house yielded thousands of photographs of boys. # Investigators also found encrypted writings, which the FBI # decoded, about "little boy stew" and "lunch is served on the # patio with roasted child," prosecutors said. Also found was a # list of boys from Massachusetts and Great Falls. [snip]

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FBI frame-job
by George＠Orwellian.Org 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/cyanide010606.html # # Newly Revealed Documents Prove Woman Innocent of Cyanide Killings, # PI Says # # Stella Nickell has never stopped denying she killed her husband # Bruce with cyanide in 1986. But now her defense team says they # can prove her innocence. # # Nickell, 57, is serving two 90-year prison terms after being # found guilty of putting cyanide in a pain-reliever capsule taken # by her husband and trying to hide the crime by tampering with # other bottles of the over-the-counter drug, which resulted in # a second death. # # Her case came at a time when the country was reeling from a series # of drug-tampering incidents. # # Now, two private investigators who have been digging into the # Seattle case for 14 months say they can prove her innocence with # documents the FBI never turned over to the defense at the time # of the trial. # # If the claim sounds strangely familiar, think again, says Al # Farr, one of the two sleuths who have been working on the case. # "I know when news first got out there that we were doing this, # some people assumed we were just floating on Tim McVeigh's # coattails," Farr said. "That couldn't be further from the truth." # # The FBI has admitted it failed to turn over more than 4,000 # documents in the case of McVeigh, who faces the death penalty # for the deadly Oklahoma City bombing. [snip] # Then, in October, he was contacted by former FBI lab worker # Frederic Whitehurst, who told him he had 1,000 pages of # FBI documents related to the case that were never seen during # the trial. [snip]

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Current cpunk block address list (20/06/2001)
by Anonymous 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

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Money for Stffing Envelopes
by Lea Turgeon 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

Recently I found your website for Stuff Envelopes as a job, My wife and I in the past have tried this type of work, we sent a payment, and never received the job packet they promised, we then call the Better Business Bureau(BBB), and to our surprise we had been taken for a ride(and lost our money); How can we be sure the same thing is not going to happen again. I have gone as far as to Call and E-Mail the BBB they state your company is not what you say it is, and they don't suggest we send any money("Why would you send money to start a job?"), I still am interested but scared to try this type work, How can we be sure that what you say is true? Please e-mail us back, if possible can we speak(Phone), If you have a phone number to call? --- Lea Turgeon --- leat32500(a)earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.

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prova con cypherpunks@toad.com
by Mauro Guarnieri - IDS snc 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

:: Request-Remailing-To: idssnd(a)tin.it Questa è una prova...

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Solaris Opera
by George＠Orwellian.Org 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

I dunno if anyone's interested, but here is: # Solaris Press Release: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/20010619.html # # Download: http://www.opera.com/download/download.cgi?id=123 I'm running it for the first time, not bad at all. Had to put an xterm window over the fixed advertising area.

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Re: your unsubscribe request
by Lyris ListManager 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

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Consumers Union To Rate Credibility of Web Sites
by George＠Orwellian.Org 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB991751206218456874.htm # # June 21, 2001 # # Consumers Union Project Aims # To Rate Credibility of Web Sites # # By STEPHANIE MILES # WSJ.COM # # Consumers Union, long a trusted name in rating consumer products, # offers online shoppers a window into electronic-commerce sites' # business, security and privacy policies. Now the group wants # to measure another critical component of a Web site: credibility. # # The Web Credibility Project, launched earlier this month, will # focus on how health, travel, advocacy, news and shopping sites # disclose business relationships with the companies and products # they cover or sell, especially when these relationships pose # a potential conflict of interest. Eventually, the group hopes # to draft credibility guidelines to be integrated into # ConsumerReports.org (www.consumerreports.org) the online entity # of Consumer Reports. # # The group has some lofty goals, such as targeting drug companies # who fail to adequately inform consumers about side effects and # indications for drugs promoted online. But it also will focus # on more mundane issues, such as convincing shopping and e-commerce # sites to display business addresses and phone numbers prominently. # # "It's about trying to find a way to get major media and major # e-commerce folks -- people who have a real stake in making sure # the Web is a credible place to do business -- to agree to a set # of standards," says Beau Brendler, director of the project. Mr. # Brendler was previously editorial director at Walt Disney Co. # Internet Group's ABCNews.com. # # While praising the motives behind Consumers Union's latest effort, # some wonder if credibility can be evaluated as easily as everyday # consumer goods such as cars and appliances. # # "Transparency, as a rule, is a good thing. How you actually # accomplish that, I don't know," says Wendell Cochran, director # of the journalism division at American University in Washington, # D.C. "It should be incumbent on a site to give as much information # as they could about who they are. But beyond that, credibility # comes out of a company's performance over a long period of time." # # Open Disclosure # # In devising a set of voluntary standards for Web sites, the # project aims to tackle concerns that consumers browsing cyberspace # don't always see potential conflicts of interest between Web-site # operators and the information they present. # # Consider ibreathe.com (www.ibreathe.com) At first glance, # ibreathe appears to be an independent health-information site, # serving up advice about asthma, allergies and other respiratory # ailments, but visitors have to scroll to the bottom of the page # to learn that the site is operated by GlaxoSmithKline PLC. # Consumers interested in asthma medications, for example, are # provided with information on GlaxoSmithKline drugs. # # GlaxoSmithKline believes the site is clear about its ties to # the drug company. # # "The sponsorship is apparent when one goes to the Web site," # says Lisa Behrens, a spokeswoman for GlaxoSmithKline, noting # that GlaxoSmithKline is a member of the Internet Healthcare # Coalition, which is focused on online ethics for health-infor # mation sites. "There is nothing that in anyway suggests that # this is third-party or independent information," Ms. Behrens # says. # # Still, the company is open to the suggestions of the Web # Credibility Project. "If there's any entity -- Consumers' Union # or others -- who has feedback or suggestions for GlaxoSmithKline, # I'm sure we'd welcome it," Ms. Behrens says. # # But the question of how to come to a consensus on credibility # issues can be tricky. Another example offered by Consumers Union's # Mr. Brendler is the Web site of Keep America Beautiful # (www.kab.org) Mr. Brendler calls Keep America Beautiful an # example of an "astroturf" site -- one that looks like a # grass-roots organization's Web outpost, but is in fact backed # by a corporate or advocacy group. # # Mr. Brendler's prescription for making KAB.org more credible # is for the site to more prominently link to or display the names # of its corporate backers, which Mr. Brendler says include "200 # companies that manufacture aluminum cans, paper goods, glass # bottles and plastics," such as Bethlehem Steel Corp., American # Forest & Paper Association, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., # Pacific Gas & Electric and Philip Morris Cos. # # Walt Amacker, vice president and director of communications at # Keep America Beautiful, disagrees that KAB.org is disingenuous # about its backers. The site does include a comprehensive and # easy-to-find list of donors, accessible by two mouse clicks, # he says, which includes "anybody who's given any money through # corporations or foundations through January 2001." # # Although the sponsorship information may not be accessible where # most visitors would expect it to be -- under the heading "About # KAB," for example -- the group does provide a detailed list of # its corporate backers in the section of the site devoted to # fund-raising. # # KAB has never shied away from revealing its corporate backers, # Mr. Amacker says, because part of the purpose of the nonprofit # group is to educate communities about how to prevent litter, # toxic dumping and other misuse of industrial products. Mr. Amacker # points out that KAB was rated "most credible" in a 1998 survey # of environmental organizations conducted by Wirthlin Worldwide, # a research and consulting group. # # Standards Needed # # The idea for creating a set of credibility standards grew out # of a panel discussion at a 1998 conference sponsored by the # Project for Excellence in Journalism and Pew Charitable Trusts. # # Consumers Union received $4.8 million in grants to launch the # Web Credibility Project, including $2.7 million from Pew # Charitable Trusts, $2 million from the Knight Foundation and # $100,000 from the Open Society Institute. # # Consumers Union has shown it understands the online world, # launching ConsumerReports.org in 1997. Online subscriptions cost # $24 a year or $3.95 a month; subscribers to Consumer Reports # magazine are charged an additional $19 a year for the online # version. The site has more than 560,000 subscribers, making it # one of the more successful premium online properties. # # Lately, the site has been branching out, offering its reports # through e-commerce sites such as Amazon.com Inc., CNET Networks # Inc. and Yahoo Inc. # # There are already a variety of services, including comparison # -shopping guides such as BizRate.com Inc. and nonprofit # consumer-protection organizations like the Better Business # Bureau's BBBOnline, that are dedicated to promoting responsibility # online. # # BizRate, which provides its e-commerce ratings information to # ConsumerReports.org, says it is in favor of the new project and # doesn't see it interfering with its own services. For the month # of May, Bizrate.com received about 6.2 million unique visitors, # while ConsumerReports.org had about one million visitors, # according to Jupiter Media Metrix. # # The Web Credibility Project intends to go beyond ratings. The # group also plans to launch a Web site later this year, name an # advisory board of journalists and e-commerce experts, work with # groups such as the Online News Association and give out annual # awards recognizing the most credible sites on the Web. # # Online vs. Offline World # # Still, measuring and regulating the credibility of Internet sites # by asking companies to voluntarily comply with guidelines is # a thorny issue, as the disagreement between Messrs. Brendler # and Amacker over the credibility of the Keep America Beautiful # site illustrates. # # Although voluntary standards can "help set a tone," American # University's Mr. Cochran says, ultimately each site is responsible # for its own reputation. "You can put a seal of approval on # something, but it wouldn't mean anything until enough time had # passed, and enough circumstances had been experienced, for people # to make up their minds." # # The goal of getting sites to voluntarily disclose business # relationships is laudable, but runs the risk of holding online # publishers to a higher standard than offline ones, adds Phil # Brooks, a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, who # notes that most movies include paid placement of products without # disclosing the financial relationship between the studio and # the product maker. # # "It would be good if there was full, open disclosure of these # kind of marketing practices," Mr. Brooks says. "But as a reality # I don't see that businesses that use online services and digital # media are going to adopt standards that are different than the # standards that are being followed in traditional media."

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Don't report getting squirted by a kid, go to jail.
by Victoria Barracks 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-weizner061201.shtml The first person charged under CCAA, Hector Flores, was a deliveryman for NotFauna.com. Two years ago, while carrying a heavy vase of flowers into the home of a paraplegic customer, he was squirted by one of the customer's kids with a water pistol. The customer apologized and Flores forgot about the matter, but subsequently, when the same child squirted a pizza-delivery man, who reported the incident, the ensuing investigation uncovered the previous assault on Flores. Flores was charged with child abuse for having failed to report the episode, which might have prevented the attack on the pizza deliverer. Convicted and sentenced to two years in a facility for child molesters, Flores appealed, arguing that the law referred only to actual firearms, not to purple water pistols. The court ruled that although the language of the statute read "firearms" and not "actual firearms," the prosecution had nevertheless acted reasonably in extending the state's school policy of zero tolerance to the home. After his release, Flores will be required to register as a child abuser wherever he lives while serving his 19 years' probation. The child will be returned to his family later this year when his parents have completed the state's Violence Begins in the Home crime-prevention program.

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