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So, NFS _replacement_ for linux/solaris?
by Robin Lee Powell 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

Any suggestions for a file system that can: 1) Run on Linux. 2) Be mounted on Solaris (this takes smb out) and Linux (this takes SecureRPC out). 3) Have some at least somewhat secure user authentication. Any help very much appreciated! I've seen Coda, but I don't know if it's Solaris code is ready for prime time. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/

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Loot! in Lotto!!
by Lotto2k74＠hotmail 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

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CP premonition: suing coders (& VCs) for writing software
by Ann Fibian 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42963-2,00.html Patel also opened the door for a rather curious legal fight that could ultimately hold venture capitalists and other executives responsible for fostering technology that is used to break the law. Matthew Katz, an attorney who has brought numerous lawsuits against various companies on his own behalf, has brought charges against Napster CEO Hank Barry, founder Shawn Fanning, Fanning's uncle John who helped launch the service and Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst. In what is being termed "tertiary contributory infringement," Katz argued that because these people either developed, funded or supported Napster, they should be held financially responsible for the effects of the system. Patel acknowledged that Katz was unlikely to win his suit, but entertained the notion that individuals could be held accountable for their work. .......... "You created this monster, now you go figure out how to stop it." Was this spoken by: someone to the CIA re Osama someone to Davis re Electricity someone to Napster re Filesharing someone to the USPO re Software patents someone to Microsoft re Legacy code someone to Tanner re Bell someone to Congress re Tax code someone to Stroustroup re C++

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11 Apr '01

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Re: Slashdot | Europe To Adopt Strict Internet Copyright Law
by George＠Orwellian.Org 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

( Yes, the WSJ title actually says "…" ;-) Yea Intel! Fuck Jeff Gordon! (oh, wrong article) http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB986949574599148237.htm # # April 11, 2001 # # An Anticopyright Activist Gets Funding For a Start-Up That Makes # … Software # # By LEE GOMES Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL # # An Irish computer programmer known for crusading against copyright # and other "intellectual property" laws has received $4 million # from Intel Corp. and others to start a for-profit, proprietary # company based on his software. # # Ian Clark, the 24-year-old author of a software program called # FreeNet, is also a co-founder of Uprizer Inc., a Los Angeles # start-up that Wednesday is scheduled to announce the investment # from Intel and two venture-capital firms. # # Mr. Clark is something of a hero, as well as a frequent speaker # and panelist, in the small segment of the computer world that # holds little respect for copyright or similar intellectual-pr # operty laws. In interviews, Mr. Clark has said that one day # copyright laws will be regarded the way society now regards # witch-burning. # # His FreeNet program is a file-transfer program that is similar # to Napster, Gnutella and other file-sharing systems. Like # Gnutella, FreeNet is completely decentralized and operates without # the need for a central server controlling its operations. But # FreeNet (freenet.sourceforge.net/)goes an extra step in that # the files that are passed around with FreeNet are encrypted, # or scrambled, in a way that makes it impossible for outsiders # to see what is being passed around on the network. # # While FreeNet has received extensive publicity in the past year, # partly because of the interest in Napster, it has far fewer actual # users than does software based on Gnutella or Napster. FreeNet # users have complained that the software is an inefficient system, # in part because of the large amount of computer resources expended # in keeping data encrypted and private. # # Mr. Clark's company, Uprizer, will be creating software based # on FreeNet. But despite his somewhat novel ideas about copyright # laws, Uprizer will be selling traditional proprietary software. # # Uprizer said Mr. Clark wasn't available to discuss Uprizer. But # Rob Kramer, the Uprizer co-founder who will be its chief # executive, maintained that Uprizer and FreeNet aren't related # to each other. "Ian is a very smart person who has other goals # in his life, and Uprizer is one of them," Mr. Kramer said. # # Mr. Kramer said Uprizer will be selling software that will allow # computer users, such as people inside companies, to exchange # information and files with each other. Mr. Kramer said Uprizer # will be using technology built into FreeNet that automatically # brings files close to the groups of people wanting them. He said, # though, that Uprizer's product won't have the anonymity and # encryption that is built into FreeNet. # # Uprizer is another company in what is being called "peer-to-peer" # computing, a catch-all phrase that is used to describe a number # of different ways that computers are being linked to perform # common tasks.

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Jim Bell Trial: Fourth Day (fwd)
by auto211076＠hushmail.com 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

Fourth Day: Jim Bell Trial Gordon continued his testimony from the previous day. He started by reviewing the mechanism for returning the guns seized on April 1, 1997, to a person that Bell would designate. He then verified the following admitted evidence: 1. A receipt issued to Bell by Clark County for assessor's records copies. 2. Copies of real property records for a (not the) Jeffrey Gordon. London then asked Gordon about the tracking device that had been installed on Bell's car. Gordon monitored the tracking device at night from his home. When Bell got outside a small radius from his house, the alarm would sound. The short radius was set to avoid trivial alerts, such as Bell going to a grocery store near his home. More evidence was confirmed by Gordon, specifically: 1. A Wired article by Declan McCullagh, where he quoted Bell as saying that he was "thinking of picketing" Gordon's home. 2. A photo processing envelope from 11/17/00 and a photo of one of the residences that Bell had stopped at, found in Bell's car at the time of his arrest. London asked Gordon how he had found out about Mueller. Gordon stated that he had typed "Scott Mueller" into a search engine and that it had turned up in the cypherpunks archive. Gordon then described why he believed that Bell's notebook was evidence of stalking: There were some matches between phone numbers in Bell's "diary, " and phone calls on the long distance bill-"At least one example where it [the numbers] did match up." Gordon testified that that the numbers were "not necessarily victims in the case." He noted that some of the numbers belonged to assessor's offices in various counties. London asked Gordon if he carried a gun. Gordon replied that he did. London: "Why are you afraid of this guy? You're carrying a gun and he isn't." "He's strongly advocated the assassination of IRS agents." Gordon also cited Bell's chemistry background, the fact that he went to MIT, and the incident where Bell dumped chemicals in an IRS building. Gordon stated that Bell had not reformed, that he had increased his activity since his release. His behavior had become more "aggressive and escalating." London asked Gordon how he was addressing this perceived threat. Had he increased security? Gordon responded that he had purchased additional firearms, installed security systems, obtained a restraining order, and educated his family. His wife started carrying. Gordon said that he looked out of the window more, took evasive routes when driving, and watched for anyone following. Gordon stated that when Bell was released, he didn't do anything other than monitor the internet and take phone calls from people who were concerned about the danger that they believed Bell might pose. On the matter of Bell using Oregon DMV databases: Gordon stated that DMV access is not legal for non-commercial use, noting that both Oregon state and federal law restricted their use. London ended the direct examination by asking Gordon about Bell's handwriting samples. Gordon said that Bell refused to give samples although technicians were sent twice to the Seatac Detention Facility to get them. In cross-examination, Gordon stated that when Bell's vehicle was seized in February, 1997, Gordon was aware of Bell and "had a lot of involvement in the process." He already was aware of AP at the time. "Later on" he began monitoring the cypherpunks list. He was also aware of Walsh, the agent who testified about wearing a wire to numerous Multnomah County Common Law Court and to a Clark County Libertarian Party meeting. Gordon claimed that Walsh's "mission was not to infiltrate the Common Law Court." When asked if Bell had supplied an illegal FM transmitter that Walsh had tried to get Bell to supply, Gordon stated that Bell had not supplied any illegal FM transmitter. Asked what had prompted the car seizure in 1997, Gordon said that Bell had failed to pay past taxes on stock sales amounting to a "big $100,000 payment." Gordon said that Bell was not being prosecuted for his essay Assassination Politics or for chemicals recovered from his house in 1997. He agreed with previous witnesses that no firearms had been found at the Bell house in the November, 2000, raid, nor had Gordon ever seen the weapons that had been released to Bell's friend Bob East again. However, there were some chemicals found in the 2000 raid. Gordon stated that he was aware that Bell had been a hobbyist chemist since he was a pre-teen. Leen asked Gordon about his monitoring efforts. Gordon stated that he had made no sustained effort to monitor Bell except when Walsh "did one-party consensual monitoring, which we were entitled to do." (The conversations that were monitored involved Bell's phone in Vancouver, Washington. Washington is a "two-party" state, a fact noted by a previous Treasury Department witness.) Further questioning revealed that: Gordon said that he started monitoring the cypherpunks mailing list in "mid to late 97." The restraining order that Gordon said that he obtained as part of the effort to increase his personal security was obtained after Bell was arrested. Bell has not been out of jail since his arrest. The person who sold Bell the Oregon DMV records did not obtain a signed form stating that the database would be used only for commercial purposes for Bell, although this was a normal procedure. On redirect examination, Gordon again stated that there was no political plan to infiltrate the Common Law Court, that having Walsh go to the Common Law Court "was the only way to contact Bell." Walsh recorded conversations of Bell discussing AP, and what steps were necessary to implement it. Gordon claimed that he would not have opened an investigation of Bell if the basis for the investigation was only AP. Instead, it was the "Operation Locate IRS" that triggered the investigation. Mopping up details, Gordon concluded his testimony by noting that a fax machine was found next to Bell's computer in the 11/6/2000 raid. He also mentioned that Bell's use of the roads for travel between Washington and Oregon qualified as interstate commerce. The jury was sent out for a break. While the jury was out, Tanner observed that the relations between the defense attorney and the defendant has become "congenial." Leen moved for a Rule 29 acquittal on all counts. On count one, he argued, there was no prima facie showing that McNall was reall in danger; he also cited the commerce clause of the constitution. Tanner denied. Leen made the same argument for count 2. Tanner denied. On count three, Leen argued that Bell had only made one phone call and sent one fax-clearly not a consistent exercise to constitute a pattern or course of conduct; Leen also cited the constitution's commerce clause. Leen pointed out that the federal law that Bell was prosecuted under was vague, but that similar laws required at least two instances and sometimes three to establish a pattern. Leen also moved to dismiss counts four and five based on insufficient evidence of fear by the people mentioned in the counts. London interjected that McNall not only expressed fear but took steps to protect himself. London said that Bell should have understood that he was being surveilled since he knew that law enforcement was watching his posts. Furthermore, London pointed out, the government could not wait until Bell actually did something. "If law enforcement was aware [of Bell's actions] and someone got hurt, the victims could sue law enforcement." Tanner asked: "Is Assassination Politics sufficient to put people on the alert?" London: "It's enough to put people on the alert, but not enough to indict someone unless someone takes action against a specific person." Tanner: "Not only overt acts but subtle acts." He denied all defense motions. Leen announced that Bell would take the stand. Tanner said that Bell couldn't use the blackboard, but instead must use butcher paper mounted on an easel. Bell would not be permitted to get out of the witness box, but must instead use a pointer. (During lunch, Bell drew some maps on the paper. After reconvening, the easel was placed well beyond the reach of most pointers, and was oriented sideways where Bell could not see it.) Leen then asked the court if Bell could retrieve his notes from SeaTac. He said that the notes were locked up-by court order--and that Bell could only obtain them during business hours. Tanner told Leen that the court would reconvene at one pm, and at that point he would asked if the defense was ready or not-implying that if Leen didn't put on his case at that time, he would not have the opportunity. The court recessed for lunch. The afternoon started with Bell on the stand. Defense attorney Leen had Bell describe his family and educational background. Bell came across as affable and chatty, directly addressing the jury. He related his experience in working for Intel in 1980, then starting and running Semi-Disk Corporation from 1982-1992, when its main product finally became obsolete and the company failed. Since 1992, he had taken occasional work in electronics design and prototyping. So how did Bell come by so large a tax liability? Bell sold some stock after the business failed and did not pay capital gains on it. After the business failed, he said, he "developed a phobia about dealing with large scale transactions." He often set aside unopened letters from the IRS about the tax liability because of his phobia. Bell testified that he had been a libertarian since 1975. How did he get involved with the Multnomah County Common Law Court? "They sounded kind of interesting, and the meeting was held in a pizza joint, and I will go anywhere for pizza." He also says that he went to the CLC to look for signs of infiltration by federal agents. Bell stated that he considers infiltration of political groups "improper." Leen then had Bell review the history of his essay. Bell first posted AP to Fidonet in 1985. Leen: "What was interesting about Assassination Politics?" Bell: "The name was kind of a joke." It really meant the end of politics, an elimination of hierarchical power structures. Bell saw that as an improvement, noting that governments cause wars, that individuals don't bear that kind of animus toward each other. Assassination Politics was originally intended for somebody like Saddam Hussein, not American public officials. So what about someone who didn't like their boss, Leen asked. Bell said that was unlikely to happen, since the whole society would have to be quite different from what it is now for AP to function. "I wasn't specifically instituting this system into a small area of another system." Bell stated that AP was "only quite hypothetically" workable. Leen: "So you are advocating anarchy?" Bell: "Anarchy is a lack of orders, not a lack of order?. I don't advocate chaos, I don't believe in lack of order. I believe in a lack of orders." Leen then asked Bell to define encryption and cyphers, followed by questions about how public key encryption is related to AP. Bell described in simple terms how encryption would work in his proposed system. Bell said that he had first gotten the idea from an article on blind signatures that was in a 1993 Scientific American article. So why did Bell discuss AP on the cypherpunks list? Because cypherpunks understood computers, networks and encryption. AP was merely intended for debate and discussion, not necessarily implementation. Bell mapped the probability for AP's implementation to the prediction of a moon landing by HG Wells in the 1890s, saying that the capability to implement AP was "at least 10 or 15 years off." So why did Bell suggest to the CLC that AP could be a "solution?" Bell said that the tax collector is a familiar symbol to people on the CLC, and that he was trying to make his essay relevant to them so that they would discuss it. So, Leen asked, what would happen to people like tax collectors? After all, "a person who learns of a system that makes it impossible to keep their job would be terrified." Bell thought it unlikely to become a problem, since those people would tend to find other work before having to deal with such a system. He said that a lot of jobs become obsolete. When that happens, people find new jobs. He characterized such fear as "economic fear and not life-threatening" that could be addressed simply by changing jobs. "The fundamental reason for the essay was to make it unnecessary to pay for a lot of big government." Under AP, the need for a large military would decline. Bell thought that the IRS' surveillance of him began in 1997 at the CLC. He fabricated a field strength meter that would signal him with vibration and took that to a meeting, where he detected RF emissions coming from "Steve Wilson" (whose real name was Steve Walsh). While at the CLC, Bell outlined AP to some of the members. Bell stated that AP would be seldom implemented, "very few people killed"-only "very serious offenders or people who didn't pay their fines." Leen asked Bell about his communications with "Steve Wilson" between January 31, 1997 and the following April 28. Wilson asked Bell to obtain a transmitter for an FM pirate radio station. Leen: "Did you do that?" Bell: "Oh no, that's illegal." Bell believed that he was under surveillance in 1997 and 1998. What led to his conviction in 1997 was the prank of putting Mercaptan, a "non-toxic smelly substance" in IRS offices, as well as using a false Social Security number. Bell stated that he resisted using his SSN for casual non-tax purposes, and would ask for a unique identifier instead. Since he used his Social Security number rarely, he made the error of swapping two digits on a tax form. The conviction was part of a plea agreement. (The agreement itself was interesting: it contained clauses where Bell would turn over his PGP keys and passphrase, which federal agents agreed would not be used to make posts; that Bell would reveal what he knew about chemicals such as sarin and ricin. This agreement was not discussed in detail in the trial, but is available as a public document.) Bell insists that he signed the plea agreement under duress. He bases this claim on an incident in 1997, where Eric Thomas Lund started an altercation with him, and during the altercation yelled at Bell that he'd better accept the agreement that was offered. Bell testified that he had been informing various people, including his own lawyer, that he had decided to refuse the agreement. Bell had suspected Lund from the first day he met him. While at the Tacoma courthouse on 11/21/1997, Bell had been placed in the same holding cell as Lund. However, Lund had his papers with him-usually not permitted to prisoners-and he was dressed in street clothes instead of the more normal prison garb. Lund went so far as to clearly admit his guilt in front of the cameras and microphones monitoring the cells. After getting out of prison, Bell obtained a copy of both Lund's criminal prosecution files and a civil file for a slip-and-fall case that Lund sued the Seatac Detention facility for on 12/15/1997. Bell says that the civil case indicates that Lund was a government informant at that time. Bell pursued his course of action because he believed that the way that federal agents had used Lund to intimidate him should be exposed. He said that he didn't believe in revenge. Bell then told several stories about surveillance that he suspected had occurred, including a 1998 incident at a Clark County LP meeting at Smokey's Pizza in Orchards, Washington. After his release in 2000, Bell decided to investigate Lund. He found the name of Mike McNall in Lund's criminal file and believed that McNall might be Lund's "handler." Bell said that he did not want to contact McNall at his office, but believed that McNall would be more candid and forthcoming if Bell could talk to him away from his office. Regarding the CIA/Mueller incident, Bell said that was not connected to any of the IRS matters. Bell was familiar with Bend and was curious as to why there would be a CIA presence there, since it was a relatively small town far from anything of interest. Bell decoupled himself from John Young, pointing out that "Young didn't request assistance, and I didn't offer assistance." Bell admitted that he had mistaken Mueller for a CIA agent and that now he believes that Mueller is telling the truth about being a real estate agent. (A separate check of Washington state's real estate licensing board indicates that Mueller was a real estate agent licensed in Chelan until July, 1996. He is registered under the name "Scott Mueller" rather than "Deforest Mueller," the name listed with directory information in Bend, and the name on the CIA ISTAC domain record.) The jury was dismissed for the day. Leen told Tanner that all of Bell's discovery notes were at Seatac; that Seatac would not release the notes without a court order, and that the counsellor who would release the notes doesn't work on the weekend. Leen asked for an opportunity to recover the notes. Tanner refused. London asked about when the conference on jury instructions would be held. Tanner put considering that off for a day. Court adjourned until Monday. Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com

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Slashdot | Europe To Adopt Strict Internet Copyright Law
by Jim Choate 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

http://slashdot.org/yro/01/04/11/1440245.shtml -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Jim Bell Trial: Second Day
by auto211076＠hushmail.com 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

Second Day: Jim Bell trial The second day of the Jim Bell trial opened up with D.A. London making a motion to tell the jury that Bell had owned firearms in the past although he hasn't had any since the 1997 trial. According to London, the fact that Bell had had a gun in the past was a reasonable basis for federal agents' current fear of Bell. Defense attorney Leen pointed out that free speech could be a cause for fear in some people, but that nobody would reasonably constrain speech. Leen said that firearms possession is constitutionally protected, and that this was true for Bell up until 1997. The fact that he was exercising a constitutionally-protected right could not be held against him. London said that the weapons were seized in 1997. Bell designated a friend to receive the firearms when the IRS returned them in 2000, which by definition would mean that Bell was no longer in possession of them. Leen pointed out that there was absolutely no evidence of current possession by Bell or of Bell contacting his friend regarding the weapons. Bell had made no attempt to acquire firearms. London suggested that Bell should retract his essay Assassination Politics. Bell protested the suggestion, and Judge Tanner threatened to either muzzle Bell or move him downstairs to a viewing room. London claimed that AP alone was a sufficient threat to the treasury agent witnesses. The court ruled that London could introduce the firearm evidence. The court then took up the matter of Bell's remaining subpoenas for Joanne Mayita and Anne Marie Evans, both of the U.S. Attorneys Office. London moved to quash the subpoenas. Leen pointed out that in-district subpoenas don't need to go through the court. Miyeta was the prosecutor for Ryan Lund's case. Bell believe Lund received consideration from the U.S. Attorney's Office to intimidate Bell while they were both incarcerated at the Seatac facility into signing a plea agreement in 1997. Evans was a prosecutor in the 1997 Bell case, and Bell claims that she was aware of the Lund deal. Tanner ruled to quash the subpoenas. After this ruling, Bell twice banged the defense table with his hand. Tanner warned that any subsequent display would mean removal, and ordered the downstairs viewing room to be prepared. Shortly thereafter, Tanner told Bell to move over one seat to the end of the table, leaving a chair between him and his attorney. His attorney asked that Bell be cuffed with an ankle cuff instead to the chair next to him so that Bell could still conference with him. Leen pointed out that the jury would not be able to observe the cuff. Leen requested limitation on testimony regarding Bell's prior legal possession of firearms. Leen also brought up the interlocutory issue again, mentioning that it was now on the briefing calendar for the ninth. The jury was brought in, and the first witness for the day, Robert William East was sworn in. East had been Bell's friend for 15 years, and was the person that the IRS released Jim's guns to. He testified that he picked up the firearms from the IRS' downtown Portland office in 2000 and had stored them with friends of his that Bell had no access to. The firearms included 2 SKSes, a Ruger Mini-14, and an S&W 629. London introduced Exhibit 21, a set of lock picks. East testified that he had loaned Bell a tension wrench and a pick. East and Bell had used the set once to open a door at East's house, and then had never seen that wrench and pick again. (There was no evidence presented that the wrench and pick had been recovered from Bell's house in the 11/6/2000 raid.) East said that he wasn't sure when this occurred, but it was sometime before 6/24/96, the date of an email in which he and Bell mentioned the set. Leen objected based on relevancy. London pointed out that he was trying to show that because Bell could pick a lock, he was a credible threat to federal agents. On cross-examination, Leen asked if Bell had written to him while Bell was in prison. East said that Bell had, and that the letters contained requests to look up people's names. East stated that he wadded up the letters and threw them away without acting on them. In additional testimony, East said that there had been no discussion of lock picks since 1996. On re-examination, London asked East if he and Bell had discussed Sarin. He said that they had discussed methylphosphodiflouride and isopropyl alchohol as precursors. London brought up the Tokyo subway incident again, implying that Bell would use Sarin to gas federal agents. East replied that they had only discussed it in relation to the Tokyo incident and that they had researched it purely out of curiosity about current events. The next witness was Christopher John Groener, who lives in Mike McNall's former house. McNall is an IRS agent who Bell had been researching. Bell visited Groener's house in October, looking for McNall. While at Groener's house, Bell recorded the license plate numbers of cars on the property before leaving. On cross-examination, Groener stated that McNall hadn't lived at the residence for about four years. Groener stated that Bell had not been threatening, nor had any weapons. The jury was sent out for a recess. Leen motioned for mistrial, based on London's mention of the Tokyo subway attack and the transparent attempt to link Bell to it. Tanner declined to declare a mistrial, saying that he had already instructed the jury to ignore it. London pointed out that because of Tokyo, agents had reason to be afraid. Lean countered that any fear that the agents had, no matter how unreasonable, they could attribute to Bell. "If Bell were Japanese, they would bring up World War II [as a reason to be afraid]." The jury returned to the courtroom. The next witness was Hilda Wong Muramoto who is a subpoena manager for @Home Corporation. In direct testimony she stated that Bell had a cable modem account, that the "DNS designation and sub-domain" as well as the IP address were hard-wired, and that the account did not cover dial-up connections. She said that the IP address was 24.16.209.166 and that the DNS number was C1099371-A. The DNS name that was captured in the e-mail that Bell allegedly sent to cypherpunks was encrv1.wa.home.com. She claimed that those "numbers" could not appear on anyone else's e-mail. Leen failed to explore the issue of e-mail header spoofing at cross-examination. The next witness was John Young. London started asking him about an email that he wrote on 10/25/2000 to the cypherpunks list. Young said that it was just a request for information in relation to the Cryptome web site, which publishes documents involved with cryptology, intelligence, and dual- use technologies. In an almost-professorial manner, John explained how he had come across the information concerning an ISTAC office of the CIA in Bend, Oregon. By consulting the .gov domain database for web sites that the CIA owned, he noticed the ISTAC web site and tried to find further information on it. As part of his research, he said that he sent out a general request to the cypherpunks list because it was sometimes a good source of information. Young published the domain name lookup info, which included the name Deforest X. Mueller, to the cypherpunks list. Bell, among others, had responded to the discussion about a CIA presence in Bend. However, it became apparent that London did not understand the difference between a contribution to a mailing list and direct correspondence. He tried, briefly, to characterize Bell's contribution as direct communication. Young pointed out that there are hundreds of subscribers to cypherpunks and that anyone can contribute. On cross-examination, Leen asked Young if he published names of CIA agents as "public information." "Potentially, they could be injured or killed as a result?" "We don't think so." Young stated that numerous such allegations had been made, but that such a scenario had never materialized. "Do you feel that Mr. Bell's technology is feasible to implement?" "No." "Is there anything of value in his essay?" "Yes indeed?. It's a good essay to envision how new technologies are deployed." Young further characterized Bell's AP essay as being one of many such papers that explore potential outcomes of new technologies. On re-examination, London claimed that Assassination Politics, contrary to Young's claim, had already been implemented by one person-C.J. Parker. He claimed Parker had developed a working system. Young said that Parker's system was a spoof, but London stuck to his claim that it was real because people could enter a name, which was forwarded to Parker. Young was then excused as a witness for the rest of the trial. The next witness was Jay Brian Goold, a special agent for the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. He said that his job was to investigate assaults on IRS agents and their families. He was present at the 11/6/2000 raid on Bell's home. Among other items that he found were: 1) a floppy with the label "ATF thug hunt" and Bell's name and address 2) a spiral notebook (previously referred to as "the diary") of names, addresses, phone numbers, and license plate numbers 3) the original of the "Joshua" fax 4) several CDROMs of the Oregon DMV database, sorted by different criteria By the time that Goold had described the contents of five CDROMs, most of the jury, who had paid rapt attention to Young's testimony, appeared districted and bored. At one point, Goold tried to introduce a CDROM into evidence that was labeled "DMV 2000". On cross-examination, he admitted that he hadn't looked at the CDROM, and didn't really know what was on it. At this point, the judge granted a recess for lunch, and Goold stated that he would look at the CDROM during lunch. Before the court reconvened, London joked to bystanders: "Bell should feel that he's already got revenge on the system, because I've had to stay in Tacoma during all of this." On re-convening, but before the jury was brought back in, Leen asked the judge for permission for Bell to move back from the end of the table and said that Bell would "behave himself." Tanner took a long look at Bell and said, grudgingly, "Oh, alright." The jury returned and Goold took the stand. He confirmed that the exhibit was indeed as labeled. Goold then described the next exhibits to be introduced: 1) a residential phone disk for the eastern U.S. 2) a residential phone disk for the western U.S. 3) "Digital Directory Assistance" for the western U.S. 4) "CD Phone Disk Business Pro" 5) user guide for phone disks Goold then introduced some printouts from those CDROMs, including lookups of addresses and names for the people he was researching. On cross-examination, Leen asked Goold if the printouts that were seized were the only ones found at Bell's house of if there were many other printouts. Goold said that there were others, but that the warrant only allowed seizure of relevant items. "There were other printouts, but they weren't relevant so I didn't take them." One of the warrant items was for copies of AP. During the raid, no copies of AP were seized. On re-examination, London asked Goold if the search team discussed before, during, or after the search if they had any discussion about seizing documents related to the free expression of political opinion. Goold stated that the agents did not. The next witness was John Michael Copp of Portland, a friend of Jim Bell's for 15 years. Copp had driven Bell around on a couple of his trips to check out houses of suspected federal agents. Copp said that Bell had gotten the addresses "from the internet." When they arrived at the destination, Copp said that he had warned Bell just to look and not to get out of the car, "or it was going to be a long walk home." Bell stayed in the car and took a picture at each location. Copp tried to tell Bell that he might be on shaky grounds: "I communicated to him on several occasions that I really didn't think it was a really good idea." Leen asked Copp if he took many road trips with Bell. He had. Copp stated that Bell believed that he was being spied on by neighbors, followed by airplanes at night. Copp said that he was sure that he was being followed by a Cessna 172 with government markings. On a trip to Rocky Butte, he and Bell had stopped at the Butte, and watched a plane that had apparently been following them go into a pattern of "lazily circling" around the Butte area until they left. Copp revealed that he had once been a Portland police officer. Copp testified that Bell had never confronted anyone. When asked about weapons, he said that "none seen none inferred." "Any chemicals?" "None." Copp said that Bell believed that Gordon was following him around. "[Bell] thoroughly believed that Mr. Lund was an agent or instrument of the government of the U.S." Jim believed that Jeff had put Mr. Lund up to assaulting him. On re-examination, Copp stated that after Bell's arrest in 1997, he had told Gordon that he had actually thought about calling authorities about Bell's behavior. On re-cross, Leen asked Copp about Bell's state of mind. "Over years, he became more and more concerned and worried about being followed and spied on? paranoid, maybe." Copp added that Bell had plans to sue the federal government and specifically special agent Gordon. The next witness was Scott Deforest Mueller. He stated that he was a real estate agent, denied working for the CIA or any national security organization, and had never heard of ISTAC. He had resided at the address on Dionne Way in Bend that had been listed in the domain name record for ISTAC until about two years ago. Mueller's answers were delivered in a nearly monotone staccato. He exhibited no change in facial expression as he answered the questions. When asked by London why his address was listed on the record, he claimed that "he had no idea how it got there." Mueller felt threatened because Bell had sent letters to the Vancouver Columbian and the Portland Oregonian outing him as a CIA agent. He said that he had to buy three firearms to protect himself and his family, and that previously he hadn't owned any firearms. On cross-examination, Mueller admitted that Bell had never contacted him. Mueller further admitted that he was unaware of any threat until Jeff Gordon contacted him in September or October, 2000, "after the raid." (The raid was in November.) Mueller said that he'd never had any mail stolen, nor had his house been broken into, nor had anyone trespassed on his property. Leen: "If Jeff Gordon hadn't told you about this, you'd never know any of this, presumably?" "Presumably." The next witness was Philip Scott, special agent of the U.S. Treasury Office of Inspector General for Tax Administration, who was present at the November raid. He introduced a couple of printouts of maps, both to the Dionne Way address that was pointed to by the .gov ISTAC domain name record. Leen objected that warrant didn't include seizing anything having to do with Dionne Way. It turns out that the search warrant that was given to the defense by the D.A. did not include the search warrant for the house, but only for Bell's car. London pointed out that his office had mistakenly put in the wrong warrant. At this point the jury left the courtroom, and Leen argued that Scott had seized items not on the search warrant. His objection was denied. After recess, but before the jury returned to the courtroom, the judge asked if there were any outstanding subpoenas? The defense said no. Although he had disposed of the remaining subpoenas early the same day, 82-year-old Tanner did not remember disposing of the last of them. Leen brought up that they would like to subpoena Ryan Lund. London argued against it, and Tanner seemed to be quite confused by the whole argument and unable to follow which attorney was saying what. Leen pointed out that a number of documents concerning Ryan Lund had been seized in the November raid and that Lund would be able to provide information relevant to Jeff Gordon and Mike McNall. The judge refused to allow Lund to be subpoenaed. After the jury returned, the prosecution next called Brian Timothy Kenney, an operations manager for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama. BCBS is the insurer for Joshua Gordon, son of one Jeffrey and Barbara Gordon (not related to the Jeff Gordon in this case). Bell had mistakenly thought that he had located the Jeff Gordon that he was looking for, and had somehow managed to find out the name of their son. The prosecution has tried to establish that Bell stole a statement from BCBS from the Gordon's mail that covered Joshua's medical payments. Kenney testified that the item in question was sent out in mid-October. Kenney testified that a check had been enclosed, but that he didn't know if it had been cashed. Leen asked if Kenney knew if his server had been hacked, indirectly implying that the Gordon's son's name could have been obtained by other means. (The jury probably didn't catch on to this inference.) Kenney said that he was not really knowledgeable about it, that he possibly might have been informed. Upon further examination of a replica of the insurance statement, Kenney said that it was just a statement of what the provider had been paid, and that no check had been enclosed. The next witness was John Rabatin, special agent of the Office of the Inspector General Tax Enforcement Division. Rabitin is a computer forensics specialist. When asked to identify the three computers that had been seized from Bell's house 5 months before, he barely glanced at them and said that they were the same computers. Rabatin identified more documents seized from Bell's house, mainly assessment records of the addresses that Bell had been interested in, and search results listings for Gordon. Rabitin also produced an e-mail that Bell authored calling for publishing the names and addresses of agents involved in Waco, Ruby Ridge and other incidents. Bell also suggested that people in other states buy up and publish DMV databases similar to what had happened in Oregon. Rabitin described how he performed forensics on Bell's machines: he removed the hard drive from each machine, put them in a lab computer, and performed a bit copy from the source drive. After removing the source drive, he used "various forensic software and techniques on the image." More emails recovered from the computers were produced including an email from Bell mentioning that he had voter registration records. By this time, Tanner is clearly napping. But he's not alone; one of the jurors has slumped over, eyes closed, head to the side. Rabitin further talks about emails where Bell describes the surveillance he's under, and discusses how to get back the items that were seized in the 1997 raid. The jury then recessed for the day. After the jury left. London moved to seal all documents containing personal information, including addresses, so that they would "not be splashed all over the internet." Leen argued against a sealing order based on first and sixth amendments. No ruling was made at the time. Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com

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bit disturbance
by Morlock Elloi 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

There is something deeply disturbing here (3 hat thing) http://channel.NYTimes.com/2001/04/10/science/10MATH.html that will possibly lead to a generic solution for Feistel nets. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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ICC still looking for recruits?
by Brainteaser 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

To: cypherpunks(a)ssz.com From: Brainteaser I thought you might be interested in this job. It's just one of the more than 250,000 great jobs on Headhunter.net: http://www.headhunter.net/share/det.asp?d=J26K66D0YJBB4DWPWJ Comments: And no, I didnt put that there.

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