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Waz-up?
by ron＠msn.com 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

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MAPS/RBL and censorship
by Jim Choate 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

See the related story on, http://slashdot.org ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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paycash payment system got $10 mln
by R. A. Hettinga 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

--- begin forwarded text

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National Academy of Sciences panel hears about porn & kids
by Declan McCullagh 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40653,00.html How X Rates With 'W' by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)wired.com) 8:00 a.m. Dec. 13, 2000 PST WASHINGTON -- Advisory committees inside the federal bureaucracy usually inhabit that featureless terrain between obscurity and futility: There's no pay, scant power and little prestige. But when a group is created by the respected National Academy of Sciences, and when the topic is the politically heated brew of sex, kids and the Internet, traditional rules no longer apply. With an eye to making a recommendation to Congress next year, the academy's committee on Internet pornography and inappropriate material met on Wednesday to hear social science experts describe the effects of smut and violence on the youth of America. It's a sure bet Washington will be paying close attention to the results. Republicans have pledged that the Justice Department will pounce on "obscene" websites should George W. Bush gain the presidency. Bush himself has railed against offensive content online, and he has endorsed library and school filtering. "One of the reasons we've had very little success (getting sex and violence off TV) is that television controls the message," said Joanne Cantor, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin. "The positive thing may be that television is more willing to focus on the horrors of the Internet than the horrors of television," Cantor said. Cantor, like the other presenters, didn't confine her remarks to porn. Although figuring out how to shield kids from digital prurience is the group's primary task, it's also charged with considering "other inappropriate Internet content." That's arguably a pretty vague mission, but the committee members were too busy agreeing with the speakers to quibble. [...] Wednesday's meeting of the National Academy of Sciences panel was designed to explore "non-technical" strategies for protecting children from offensive material -- such options include providing guidelines for parents and educating kids about sexuality. Technical options the panel will weigh include filtering software, the creation of a new top-level domain, rating systems, and regulations or new laws directed at sexually explicit sites online. The committee's stated goal is to "provide a foundation for a more coherent and objective local and national debate on the subject of Internet pornography" while avoiding "specific" recommendations directed at new laws or regulations. This week's meeting is the third. The group will next meet in March in the San Francisco area to discuss technical options, and finally in June 2001 in Chicago. [...]

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Biowomdterror today in DC
by Declan McCullagh 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

FOREIGN AFFAIRS Washington Foreign Press Center (WFPC) Background briefing on a new phase for the "Rewards for Justice" program, an initiative to prevent international terrorist acts. Foreign media only please Location: WFPC, Room 898, National Press Building, 14th and F St., NW. 2:15 p.m. Contact: Andy Dryden, 202-661-8963 **NEW** FOREIGN AFFAIRS Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) Special session to consider and adopt 1999-2000 national and hemispheric reports on anti-drug efforts progress throughout the Americas, December 11-15. All sessions closed Location: Organization of American States (OAS), 17th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Hall of the Americas. 9 a.m. Contact: Janelle Conaway, 202-458-6841 **NEW** SOCIAL ISSUES National Press Club Morning Newsmaker Program Release of findings on U.S. terrorism preparedness to be sent to Congress and the president. Participants: Gov. Jim Gilmore, R-Va., chairman, Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction Location: National Press Club, 14th and F Sts., NW. 10 a.m. Contact: 202-662-7593

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Secretions
by R. A. Hettinga 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

Speaking of chadors... Thanks, as ever, to Ryan for cypherpunks.venona.com. Cheers, RAH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] secretions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com * Subject: secretions * From: Judith Milhon <stjude(a)well.sf.ca.us> * Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 03:01:26 -0700 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The alternative to mutual trust, which is indeed a risky gamble, is the security of the police state." -- Alan Watts This text may be published in MONDO2000 as my regular column, Irresponsible Journalism. Eric Hughes suggested the coda with the toad address, adding that it would be amusing to have it almost completely blotted by magic marker, as if inadequately censored. I don't want to be the venom in this toad. <I'd like to be one of the jewels it wears in its head -- I can't quote that precisely, but it's something like, "the venomous toad, which yet in its head wears a precious jewel"...> the idea is to draw in other useful minds. we can assume the WRONG PEOPLE already know the address. lady ada won't apologize for the gonzo wrapping for the ideas; she is concerned only that they be correct and clearly stated. clarifications, expansions, corrections are welcome. also abuse and threats, for that matter... any feedback, please feed me... THE CYPHERPUNK MOVEMENT by St. Jude I don't face-to-face all that much. And I don't like clubs. I was in the Black Hole for a reason: The Screamin' Memes were in town for one night only -- Thursday, of course. Thursday's the night, now that the weekend has annexed Fri. and Mon. I was lurking in the back, hoping not to see anybody, when the Jones brothers staked me out. Damn. They are deep into the street drugs. Keeping up with the Joneses is nigh impossible; their most trivial chitchat is an exercise in decryption. Eddy -- or maybe he was being Ellis that night -- was implying something about somebody when my right foot detonated down to its steel toe. I looked up -- way up -- to a face that wasn't there at all. Just a dome of black cloth, with goggles. Three-eyed goggles. Ah: a Chador. I'd heard of that. I screamed: "You stomped my foot FLAT!" "Sorry." "Are you okay?" "Oh maaaang." Many overlapping voices, all of them synthesized, blurted from above. Out of two tiny speakers hanging like earrings off a basketweave headband like a cop's belt. The head bowed, bringing it almost within biting range. "Gah. Ow. Ooo." Pretending to be demented with pain, I lurched deep into the Chador. But I was cool: I was rootling in there for clues. Ha! Male pheromones. Hardish male torso. I was jostling this lumpy equipment hanging off him, trying to get a good feel of it without alerting him. Nuh uh: _I_ meant electronics... what did _you_ think? Okay: I had some data to work with. Male with gadgets. Quelle surprise. "What the hell have you got on your feet? HORSESHOES?" A voice like rushing water: "Kothurni." The Chador shifted a little... and under his full black skirts I saw them: big weighted club-foot boots with concealed lifts, to disguise the wearer's height. Wicked. The pain and the espionage cleared my head. I was ready to deal. "So you're protecting your meat identity, right?" The Chador seemed to teeter a little. It goggled down at me as if I were a smear on a slide. Its third-eye goggle was a lens. Check. Out of the ambient murk loomed another Chador. Exactly the same height. Right. "How come you guys are in full drag?" "We're here for a... uh... party." The voice from the other Chador was a flanged saxophone, but I could swear it had a Texas accent. "Rubbish. You're having a cell meeting, right? " The near Chador, the one I had groped, seemed to teeter again. What sounded like a tape player on fast-forward came faintly from its interior. An earphone? The saxophone honked: "If I said I even understood what you meant, what kind of a chump would that make me?" "I could hazard a guess. I think you're cryptoanarchists -- what I'd call cypherpunks!" My Chador cracked up. I could tell. The farther one seemed to stiffen; I think it was giving me a hate stare. Hard to manage behind the whole 9 yards o' cloth. "Is that clever or what? I'm onto you like psilocybe on cowshit, dudes. You want to take over the world. Haha hahaha haaaaa." Both of them rocked back a little. I went in after them. "You want to talk encryption schemes? Let's talk cryptic. Tales from the cryp'ed. But make it fast: The Memes are comin' on." Oh, I was bluffing. I don't know much about cryptography. I was just 'tuding them from tech envy. Damn: Chadors. And me without the first widget. From the far guy came a cello, very suave: "The world has already been taken over. You may have noticed this. We're just trying to get some of it back." And the accent was -- Dutch? Bob's yr uncle. Gotcha. I hadn't been certain. Maybe chadors were now trendy club gear -- what do I know? "Hey -- that cello's another guy? How many you PACKIN' in there?" Out of my Chador a sawtooth rasped: "Variable. People are ringing in and out." "You're on line?" "This is a bridge. International." Sawtooth again. The cello resumed, an annoyed cello: "We don't believe in takeovers. In fact, we are working to make things UNTAKEOVERABLE." A theremin quivered, "And to make the world safe for anarchy. _We want the air-waves, baby_." It snickered across many frequencies. The Tejana saxophone chuckled, (and an eerie treat that was, too): "Problem is, how to guarantee privacy for pseudonyms. So you can have a pseudonymous economy." A toad croaked: "So, full-RSA encrypted EVERYTHING. No back doors. Secure digital money. Swiss bank accounts for the millions." The theremin: "A global monetary system that makes governments obsolete. Down come the governments. Goodbye the feds." It sang, whoopingly: "BYE BYE, LAWWww." Horrible broad-band snickering. The toad croaked: "Er... yes. Real freedom of speech, too. Libertech!" The Dutch cello was all business: "Okay, what does it take? You need real-time protocols to prove you own your pseudonym. And your pseudonyms have online reputations, via people you've done biz with -- like a distributed credit rating system. With maybe designated angels -- Fair Witnesses." I was charmed. "And you wear the chador when you face-to-face somebody who knows your handle!" The theremin wheeped: "Actually, unmasking your real identity could be the ultimate collateral -- your killable, _torturable_ body. Even without kids, you've got a hostage to fortune -- your own meat." I was reeling. "Oh yas yas. As Dylan said: 'They asked me for some collateral/ and I pulled down my pants'." Orchestral chuckles rained down on me. Was I an international hit? But at that exact moment The Memes hit the stage. The crowd did a 9.1 Richter lurch and the other Chador pitched onto my LEFT toe, maybe denting the steel. "AAIEEeeee. That's great COVERT GEAR you got there, guys. You couldn't sneak up on Helen Keller in a HAILSTORM." I was trying to spin down. "And dudes -- this is not the neighborhood for flashing the hardware. Getting rolled by winos is pretty LOW TECH." A spike-knuckled glove slithered out of the farther guy, clutching what looked, in the near-dark, like an electric razor. "_Gonna menace 'em with a clean shave_?" The sax: "Stunner. Bottom of the line. But." A hot line of pure energy cracked across its little trodes. Of course. Rushing water: "See ya." And they did a fade into the smoke. The Screamin' Memes were worthless. To hell with clubs. To hell with lots o' things, maybe. I am now sensing my roots, mahn; dey who are my bredren. Nerds. Nerds as mainstreamed by the grainy but still fetching Robt Redford in Sneakers... Nerds who will have their revenge at last, by making the online realer than our current regrettable reality... No, I'm not quite delusional. I've heard the cypherpunks are already distributing their encrypted email software, which is quick and slick. I might even join the revolution, which is, heh, already in progress. Yeah. Why not? Give me libertech or give me... _DES_? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- St. Jude, aka Lady Ada Lovelace, wrote "The Spook in the Machine" for MONDO #1, describing the enforcement of DES, the Data Encryption Scam with the handy backdoor. She can be reached online as stjude(a)well.sf.ca.us. Note: a definitely false rumor is now circulating that the revolutionists can be contacted via cypherpunks(a)toad.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- feed me? >jude< ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Prev by Date: through mr. crypto * Next by Date: the hopping remailer is done * Prev by thread: through mr. crypto * Next by thread: the hopping remailer is done * Index(es): * Date * Thread -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Earn Weekly Paychecks At Home - Here's How...
by Income Opportunity 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

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Earn Weekly Paychecks At Home - Here's How...
by Income Opportunity 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

Earn $235 - $760 Or More Weekly Home Workers Needed Nationwide Hundreds of companies are currently looking for telecommuters. There is no experience needed and you can start right away. This is NOT your average get-rich-quick program. In fact, none of the companies require any special fees to get started. Many offer free training. Start earning money in your spare time. You set the hours, you decide how much you want to make. Email cashflow4u(a)earthlink.net with "Work At Home" in the subject heading for complete details. Best Wishes Home Workers Directory P.S. Opportunity available only to U.S. Residents over the age of 18.

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This has the w95.hybris.gen virus in it. ...Re: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!
by roy 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

At 10:46 PM 12/13/2000 -0600, you wrote: >Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and >polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a >*huge* surprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlently, the door open, and the >Seven >Dwarfs enter... > ___________________________________ If we don't change our basic perceptions of life, as a species we will perish in servitude to institutional greed. Please read Vote or Die at www.thirdparty.dhs.org "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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by GetConnected.com 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

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