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06 Dec '00

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mafia boy resists fedz
by David Honig 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20001205/2888098s.htm 'Mafiaboy' trying to stare down prosecutors Lawyer: If teen accused of shutting down Web sites of CNN, Yahoo has to go to trial, prosecutors will pay By Kevin Johnson USA TODAY MONTREAL -- Nearly a year after a hacker shut down some of the biggest names on the Internet -- causing an estimated $1.3 billion in lost business -- prosecutors and lawyers representing a defendant known as ''Mafiaboy'' are locked in a high-stakes game of chicken over whether the case will go to trial. The 16-year-old is charged with the cyber equivalent of breaking and entering in assaults last winter that shut down sites operated by Yahoo, eBay, CNN and E-Trade. The attacks, in which the Web sites were overloaded with requests from supercomputers infected with a program planted by a hacker, affected millions of Internet users worldwide. If convicted, prosecutors say, Mafiaboy -- whose name is being withheld because he is a juvenile -- could face up to two years confinement in a youth center, $1,000 in fines and up to 240 hours of community service. Prosecutors are willing to consider a plea agreement, but only if it includes some confinement. Absolutely not, says the teen's attorney, who vows that if prosecutors stick to that position, they'll be sorry. Yan Romanowski says his client is bracing for a protracted trial, lasting four to six months, during which the defense will demand that the government show the computer program that brought the Internet giants to their knees. Internet security experts are calling the strategy blackmail, and prosecutors say they do not believe that publicizing the program, which Mafiaboy allegedly found on the Internet, would be necessary. Nevertheless, Romanowski, in a likely attempt to gain leverage in plea-bargain talks, is playing hardball. The lawyer plans to challenge the legality of wiretaps that allowed Royal Canadian Mounted Police to collect 40 days of telephone conversations, during which the teenager is alleged to have bragged about his exploits behind the keyboard. The wiretaps were planted after authorities traced computer ''fingerprints'' left on one supercomputer used in the attacks back to Mafiaboy. ''If that evidence is eliminated,'' Romanowski says, ''the whole case gets kicked.'' If the evidence stands, as prosecutor Louis Miville-Deschenes expects, the defense envisions a courtroom drama that will require some of the biggest players in electronic commerce to testify as embarrassed victims of a boy's mischief. ''This is not an open-and-closed case by any means,'' Romanowski says. Perhaps, but the lawyer's client might have not have helped matters when he was arrested last Friday and accused of violating the terms of his bail by repeatedly breaking school rules at Riverdale High. He remained in custody Monday night and was scheduled for a detention hearing today. ''The kid has been a general pain in the posterior,'' Miville-Deschenes says. This Friday, the teenager is expected to answer the hacking charges. Romanowski says he plans to plead not guilty. As part of any plea negotiation, prosecutors have asked him to participate in debriefing sessions with Canadian authorities and possibly U.S. investigators to discuss his relationships with a vast, international network of associates. Like detention, that's also unacceptable to the defense, say Romanowski and John Calce, 45, Mafiaboy's father. Because of ''loyalty,'' Calce says, there is no chance his son would sit down with authorities to discuss his private communications with friends. ''I don't think he'll be cooperating with them.'' In a bizarre case that parallels the one involving his son, Calce is facing a conspiracy charge because of what Canadian authorities heard on the telephone wiretap designed to garner evidence against his son. Investigators say they decided to move in on both of them the morning of April 15 after phone transmissions picked up Calce, who is president of a transportation company, allegedly planning to have someone rough up a business associate. Romanowski, who also represents Calce, suggests that the father's strong words on the telephone were simply misinterpreted. Calce says the dispute involved about $1.5 million but adds that he never intended to hurt anyone. ''It was the worst possible thing that could happen,'' Calce says of the police raid at his suburban home. ''I came downstairs in my bathrobe, and there were about 20 Mounties in my house. One guy grabbed me by the robe; I told him to get his hands off. I'm not an easy guy to push around.'' There is no disputing that. Calce's chalk-stripe suit doesn't hide his formidable size and raw manner. Unshaven and blunt-speaking, Calce's physical presence, plus the charge lodged against him, seems to invite questions about whether there is any special significance to his son's Internet moniker. Calce and his lawyer consider the question, share a chuckle and then politely decline to respond. ''I don't think we'll comment on that one,'' Romanowski says. Patrick Healy, a law professor at McGill University in Montreal, says a trial in the Mafiaboy case almost certainly would provide a unique forum to contest privacy issues and sabotage in the computer world. ''There have not been many prosecutions of this kind anywhere,'' he says. And if there is an advantage to taking this case to trial, the professor says, it might be tied directly to the defendant's age. ''A trial just might show this boy to be a clever kid who should not be hit with a ton of bricks,'' Healy says. Computer security analyst Marc Rasch says prosecutors should not be intimidated by Romanowski's threat to expose potentially damaging hacking information. In this case, he says, the type of assault already has been fairly well detailed in media accounts of the charges lodged against the boy. ''There is genuine risk that publication (of this formula) again could cause additional exploitation,'' Rasch says, ''but that shouldn't dictate how the prosecution should proceed.'' Miville-Deschenes, the prosecutor, does not appear to be fazed by the prospect of courtroom disclosure of sensitive information. However, he is concerned about the potential cost of a lengthy trial and the presentation of complex evidence to a judge whose computer savvy might be limited. ''I understand that there may be a certain Robin Hood-type aspect to this case'' that could foster sympathy for the defendant, the prosecutor says. ''This was a kid who was able to bring huge dot-com companies to their knees. . . . If he were an arsonist, people would want to stone him because of the damage he caused. The intent in this case and the damage caused is basically the same.'' If the hacking case goes to trial, Calce says, the defense will make no attempt to portray his son as a perfect kid. In addition to his arrest last Friday, the teen spent two days in detention last July for associating with two boys he was prohibited from seeing while the charges are pending. Romanowski says his client was merely attempting to avoid the two friends when police swooped in. ''The kid is definitely feeling the pressure,'' Romanowski says. ''He doesn't find it funny. He has found out that the margin for error in his life right now is not what it used to be. There are a lot of people out there just waiting for him to slip up.''

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German Faces Charges for Selling Adolf Sofa
by Anonymous 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

Monday December 4 9:56 AM ET German Faces Charges for Selling Adolf Sofa Set By Fiona Shaikh BERLIN (Reuters) - A furniture-shop owner should be charged with breaking Germanys anti-Nazi laws for naming chairs and sofas after Adolf Hitler and other Third Reich leaders, a local Jewish community leader said on Monday. Michael Fuerst, leader of the Jewish community in Lower Saxony state, urged state prosecutors in Hanover to charge store owner Franz-Georg Schwetje with violating strict laws against glorifying the Third Reich for using names such as Adolf and Hermann for his sofa sets. Schwetje ran advertisements for his sofa sale in a local newspaper in Hildesheim, 18 miles south of the central city of Hanover, bearing the name Three-piece sofa set Adolf -- marked down to 2,998 marks ($1,600) from 5,998 marks. He also listed a Cabinet Rommel and Chest of drawers Paulus after World War Two generals Erwin Rommel and Friedrich Paulus. The Hermann three-piece sofa set, which recalls Luftwaffe Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, was also marked down. The ads represent a clear glorification of the Third Reich and we have urged the state prosecutors to initiate legal proceedings against Schwetje, Fuerst told Reuters. Well have to see what charges the state prosecutors decide to raise. Schwertje insisted there was no Nazi connection. I simply passed along the names that my suppliers provided, he told Reuters in a telephone interview. Im not a Nazi and I dont want to have anything to do with such people. Those right-wing extremists should be locked up. Schwetje, 57, added that he could not remember writing the advertisements because he takes pain-killers for bone cancer. He nevertheless said the names were harmless -- and that he had relatives in mind rather than Nazi leaders. If Id given the furniture a name like Sachsenhausen, that would be a different matter, said Schwetje, referring to a notorious Nazi concentration camp. But the sofa suite Hermann is named after my uncle -- Hermann Schwetje. The Greens party in Lower Saxony called for a boycott of the furniture store. The local chambers of commerce were also considering legal sanctions. Not one of my customers has complained about the adverts, Schwetje said. But the Jewish community said they were offended. So I am going to make a donation to the Jewish group. Im not sure how much, but at least 1,000 marks. Germany has been plagued by a surge in far-right crime since unity in 1990. The German government has responded by seeking to ban the far right National Democratic Party.

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For Sale,Docket No.99-80106 and,or the U.S.Constitution
by RKBARTVI-3＠webtv.net 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

Why was the State of California vs.Mr.O.J. Simpson"allege" Trial of the Century such a mockery of justice ? The contents thats associated with Docket No.99-80106 of the,U.S.Court Of"Appeals"For The "Ninth Circuit" provides the answer !!! Not only do you have proof of statutory crimes that undermines the goverment,by california legislation.but there is proof as to how,federal judges "still obstruct justice" to cover up for the legislation that is in Sacremento,Ca. Which former governor,P.Wilson,former state attorney general,D.Lungren,(Ca.state dept.of justice),the state's"corrupt"supreme court justices,former speaker of the state legislator,now Da Mayor of San Francisco,Ca. the Hon.Judge Ito, Mr.J. Cochron,(Amend.VI),all conspired to obstruct justice to cover up for the state legislation,(thats still in Sacremento,Ca. Smile !!!),that abrogates the Bill of Rights. The documentation that is associated with Docket No.99-80106 gets better and,or the facts,"evidence" and law proves the roles of non other than the,U.S.Dept.of Justice,(Frist Lady,H.R.Clinton"Esquire" her inlaws,U.S.Sen. B.Boxer and spouse,(Boxer,Elkind,& Gerson), Madam Atty.Gen.,Reno,U.S.Atty.,M.Yamaguchi or several Assist.U.S.Attorneys,the F.B.I.),U.S. Senator, D. Feinstein,U.S.Congressmen,B.Lee,the Sec.of H U D.Mr.A.Cuomo,(state dept of justice,state superior court judges,of Case No.763049-9 of the Alameda County Superior Court !),in "illegal' conspiracies to obstruct justice,to hinder the prosecution of, U.S.Senator,B.Boxer,(the inlaws of the Frist lady), for her roles in "multiple violations" of "federal" and state laws,by statutory crimes,the aborgations of the Bill of Rights,where federal and state judges conspire to protect those that betray the U.S.Constitution. Where law enforcement obstuct justice to cover up,"illegal' conspiracies to plot,Manslaughter,Mureder, "Legal Malice",by law,by legislation !!! No wonder the allege Trial of the Century was a lark,as the public cannot be made aware of the betrayals of the U.S.Constitution by laws,which the Justices of the U.S.Court of"Appeals' For The "Ninth Circuit",subverts their sworn oaths and the U.S.Constitution to cover up !!! Yet the facts associated with Docket No.99-80106 of the,U.S.Court of "Appeals" For The "Ninth Circuit" and the legislation,(Smile !),that is still available in Sacremento,Ca. proves ! Mrs B.Boxer,(U.S.Senator,former,U.S. Congresswomen,the inlaw of the Frist Family of the United States !),is a very Evil and Corrupt person. Not everyone can get a Frist Lady of the U.S.,& the U.S.Dept.of Justice,& Federal Judges, to assist in obstucting justice !!! Smile, which again abrogates the Bill of Rights and,or Amendment 14 sec.1 "?" Sincerely Ronald K.Booker States,(Ca.),W.C.A.B.,No.Oak.0176038,"1992"

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say again ?
by Christopher Wakefield 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

it is me the one who asked for the picture . the email was received but then my email crashed and lost it please send it a gain thankyou

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Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com
by The New York Times Direct 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

TODAY'S HEADLINES The New York Times on the Web Wednesday, December 6, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------ For news updated throughout the day, visit www.nytimes.com QUOTE OF THE DAY ========================= "American children continue to learn, but their peers in other countries are learning at a higher rate." - RICHARD W. RILEY, secretary of education, on the results of an international test of math and science. Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/national/06EXAM.html BUSINESS ========================= Greenspan Suggests the Need to Lift Rates Is Diminished http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/business/06FED.html Market Place: Whoopee, a Stock Surge! Now a Reality Check http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/business/06PLAC.html Management: Big Plush Offices Make Way for Humble Space http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/business/06OFFI.html U.S. Joins in Suits Against Lockheed Martin http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/business/06DISC.html /--------------------- ADVERTISEMENT ---------------------\ Mark the elections with a presidential screensaver To celebrate the elections, NYTimes.com has created a Presidents screensaver that captures some of history's finest moments from The New York Times Photo Archives. 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Says http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/world/06MIDE.html America to Press Security in Distant Ports http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/world/06NAVY.html NATIONAL ========================= U.S. Students Fail to Keep Up in Global Science and Math Tests http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/national/06EXAM.html Antigang 'Role Model' Is Up for a Nobel and Execution http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/national/06PRIS.html Independent Counsel Seeks to Interview Lewinsky Again http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/politics/06INQU.html Ex-Aide Charges Harassment in Milwaukee http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/national/06MAYO.html SPORTS ========================= Devils Humble the Avalanche http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/sports/06DEVI.html New Champ Learned Patience http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/sports/06VECS.html A Man Who Likes His Quiet Comes to the Big, Noisy City http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/sports/06MUSS.html Division Race Just Got Harder for Mets http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/sports/06SKED.html TECHNOLOGY ========================= Xerox to Spin Off Company http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/technology/06XERO.html Apple Warns It Will Record Loss http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/technology/06APPL.html Nasdaq Sets Record in Rally http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/business/06STOX.html Consortium Offers Unfiltered Advice on Filtering Software http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/technology/06EDUCATION.html ARTS ========================= The British Museum: Stodgy Never Looked So Chic http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/arts/06MUSE.html Step by Step, Sol LeWitt's Work Climbs the Walls at the Whitney http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/arts/06LEWI.html 'Tiny Alice': Testing a Steadfast Faith With Flesh http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/arts/06ALIC.html A Pocket-Size Opera From a Harrowing Kafka Story http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/arts/06ARTS.html NEW YORK REGION ========================= U.S. to Order $490 Million River Cleanup by G.E. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/science/06HUDS.html Fall From Subway Train Kills 3-Year-Old Boy in Brooklyn http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/nyregion/06TRAI.html A Repaved Path Underpins a Revitalization Plan http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/nyregion/06REAL.html Scout Issue Stirs Revolt by a Board Chancellor Attacked for Limiting Access http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/nyregion/06SCOU.html OP-ED COLUMNISTS ========================= By PAUL KRUGMAN: Cheney Gets Vulgar Dick Cheney, speaking last weekend, gave us our first post-election hints about Gov. George W. Bush's economic policy. And the news is not good. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/opinion/06KRUG.html By MAUREEN DOWD: Sisyphus at Starbucks Vice President Al Gore must realize that he will not make the move down the West Wing hall, despite the fact that everyone knows that he won. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/opinion/06DOWD.html HOW TO CHANGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------ You received these headlines because you requested The New York Times Direct e-mail service. 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ANNOUNCE: SF Bay Area Cypherpunks, December 9, Jupiter, Berkeley
by Bill Stewart 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

SF Bay Area Cypherpunks July 2000 Physical Meeting Announcement Meeting Announcements On The Web: http://www.cryptorights.org/cypherpunks/meetingpunks.html General Info: DATE: Saturday December 9, 2000 TIME: 1:00 - 6:00 PM (Pacific Time) PLACE: Jupiter, 2181 Shattuck, Berkeley Agenda - "Our agenda is a widely held secret" The organized program begins about 1:00. After the meeting, there is usually dinner somewhere nearby. Jupiter is a brewery, with pizza and sandwiches and their own beer and other brewers' beer. This is an open meeting on US Soil, and everyone's invited, including some suspiciously foreign Canadians and Brits who are expected. However, it's possible there will be Stupid Government Tricks restricting people under 21, because of the presence of ethanol. Some expected people and discussion topics: Secure Mail Programs. BayFF held a meeting Monday 12/4 - if anybody attended, we'd really like to hear what you thought. Many of the usual suspects, good and bad, were there. Ian Goldberg - Ian is finishing his doctorate and fleeing North. Phill Hallam-Baker - XKMS Key Management System - Verisign and WWW Consortium Nick Szabo - Smart Contracts Bill Stewart - NSA Crypto Museum - I visited the NSA Crypto Museum, and brought back brochures and an Enigma cracker. Most of my pictures are too dark, but if one of you knows Photoshop, that may be fixable. Location: Jupiter, 2181 Shattuck, Berkeley http://www.jupiterbeer.com/berkeley/ We will be in the heated outdoor beer garden, weather permitting, or conspicuously inside. Jupiter opens at high noon. Directions: BART: Take BART to Berkeley station; Jupiter is across the street. Driving: Take 80 to University Avenue, turn right on Shattuck, about 3 blocks. Map: http://www.jupiterbeer.com/berkeley/directions/ Lat/Long: 37.869765 N 122.268175 W ========= If you have questions, comment or agenda requests, or you need directions, please contact the meeting organizers: Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com Cell +1-415-307-7119 Dave Del Torto, Dave(a)DelTor.to Cell +1-415-730-3583 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This announcement has been sent to the meetingpunks and cypherpunks lists. You can find the announcement online at http://www.cryptorights.org/cypherpunks/meetingpunks.html To UNSUBSCRIBE an address from the meetingpunks list send email to: meetingpunks-request(a)majordomo.cryptorights.org with "unsubscribe meetingpunks [optional-address]" in the BODY. To SUBSCRIBE an address to this list send email to: meetingpunks-request(a)majordomo.cryptorights.org with "subscribe meetingpunks [optional-address]" in the BODY. To contact the list-owner, send email to meetingpunks-admin(a)cryptorights.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the cypherpunks list, look at the mail headers, find which of the servers sent you the message, and send mail to cypherpunks-request at that server saying "help". --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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"Hello, You're Dead"
by Dave Del Torto 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

<http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/phone001205.html> "...Hitting the 5, 6, 7 and 8 buttons on the phone gun fires four .22-caliber rounds in quick succession. ..." OK, so I can accept that only Mad Dogs & (Home Office) Englishmen may be looney enough to sit around under the noonday press coverage after someone's leaked their classified plans to store seven years' worth of everyone's communications (Ministry of Silly Flippin' Traffic-analysis... MSFT?), and maybe Viagra is responsible for all this US presidential madness (how else could two old white guys hold an election for so long? ;) -- but what the hell is going on when you can't order a damned pizza over the phone without risking that you'll blow your own salami off? dave ____________________________________________________________________________ "It's not the Voting that makes Democracy, it's the Counting." -Tom Stoppard

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Antigen found W32/Hybris@m virus
by ANTIGEN_EXCHANGE 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

Antigen for Exchange found dwarf4you.exe infected with W32/Hybris@m virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, " Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!", was sent from Hahaha and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at ITC/Corporate/EXCHANGE.

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Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!
by Hahaha 06 Dec '00

06 Dec '00

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...

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