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CDR: Home Improvement Help
by feedback＠tapdirect.com 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

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CDR: Home Improvement Help
by feedback＠tapdirect.com 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Your Home improvement update from tapdirect. Download a FREE sample article on kitchen layout and design at: http://www.tapdirect.com/request_article.asp Find Hundreds of money saving insider tips from professionals on remodeling and home improvement; how to get supplies & appliances at 35% off and tools at half price at: http://www.tapdirect.com/kitchentips.htm YouCanSave.com for unique and handy products for your home and office at: http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?youcansave+Pd6xYX+index.html Design and complete interior and exterior tile projects on walls, floors, countertops, shower enclosures, patios, pools, and more at: http://www.tapdirect.com/tile.htm If you would like to be removed from future home improvement updates, click on this link and send a blank email to: mailto:feedback@tapdirect.com?subject=remove

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CDR: More WWW insecurity
by George＠Orwellian.Org 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Also at the Wired site, but they now have animated advertising that won't stop when you tell it to. (Compaq Proliant crap) ---- http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/03/technology/03HACK.html November 3, 2000 Hacker Defaces Pro-Israel Web Site By JOHN SCHWARTZ The Web site for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobbying group, was defaced Wednesday with anti-Israeli commentary - an increasingly common occurrence as the escalating conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has spilled over into cyberspace. But this time the intruders also downloaded some 3,500 e-mail addresses and 700 credit card numbers from the site, sent anti-Israeli diatribes to the mailing list and published the credit card data on the Internet. "This hack is to protest against the atrocities in Palestine by the barbarian Israeli soldiers and their constant support by the U.S. government," said a manifesto that the attackers put in place of the lobbying group's home page. [snip]

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CDR: Secure your E-mail with your Trial Digital ID
by VeriSign Customer Support Department 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Dear VeriSign Digital ID Holder: Thank you for obtaining a 60-Day Trial Digital ID from VeriSign! With the recent introduction of secure e-mail capabilities in Netscape's Messenger (the e-mail application in Communicator) and several other popular e-mail packages, your Digital ID provides you with the ability to digitally encrypt and sign your messages to ensure security over the Internet. To learn more about using your Digital ID to secure your e-mail messages, please visit our Secure E-Mail Reference Guide at http://www.verisign.com/securemail/guide. This guide gives simple, step-by-step instructions on how to get started. Thanks again for choosing VeriSign! We look forward to serving your future electronic commerce and communications needs. VeriSign Customer Support Dept. ID-support(a)verisign.com

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CDR: Secure your E-mail with your Trial Digital ID
by VeriSign Customer Support Department 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

Dear VeriSign Digital ID Holder: Thank you for obtaining a 60-Day Trial Digital ID from VeriSign! With the recent introduction of secure e-mail capabilities in Netscape's Messenger (the e-mail application in Communicator) and several other popular e-mail packages, your Digital ID provides you with the ability to digitally encrypt and sign your messages to ensure security over the Internet. To learn more about using your Digital ID to secure your e-mail messages, please visit our Secure E-Mail Reference Guide at http://www.verisign.com/securemail/guide. This guide gives simple, step-by-step instructions on how to get started. Thanks again for choosing VeriSign! We look forward to serving your future electronic commerce and communications needs. VeriSign Customer Support Dept. ID-support(a)verisign.com

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CDR: Ebay4Sex Gets Laid
by Mary＠sirius.infonex.com 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

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CDR: Other fables of olde.
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

--------------------------- |From: enquirer(a)alpha.c2.org |To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com |Subject: Alternative Journalism |Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:04:05 -0700 (PDT) THE CYPHERPUNK ENQUIRER PRESENTS: "Adventures in Alternative Journalism" The Analysis Piece Alice stared at the two strange creatures. She was completely dumbfounded. "So let me see if I've got this right. You make really good wheels. But if the Queen of Hearts had wheels, her subjects who occasionally raid your borders would be able to get away faster, and you wouldn't catch as many of them. Is that right, Tweedledumb?" "I'm Tweedledumber. He's Tweedledumb. Yes, that's right. We have a technological lead over the Cards, and we have to maintain it." "So you won't sell them wheels?" "Well, it's more complex than that. A large part of our population is engaged in making wheels, and we make a lot of money selling them to the Cards. So we made a compromise. We only sell them SQUARE wheels." "But of course," Tweedledumb chimed in, "it's very expensive to make both square and round wheels. So most of our people only make square wheels, so they can sell them to both us and the Cards. Of course, our people are allowed to buy round wheels, IF they can find them." "AND," stated Tweedledumber, "since the wheel is patented here, we get to collect a hefty licensing fee for every wheel sold." "But the Cards DO have wheels!" Alice could see over the fence, and the Cards were happily zipping around all over the place. "And so do a lot of people over here. What happened?" "Well, we couldn't stop the Cards from building their OWN wheels ... " "And people like buying the Card wheels because they're faster than our wheels, and they're cheaper, because they don't have to pay us the licensing fee ..." "You see, we have a licensing treaty with the Cards for most things, so if they make something we have a patent on, they have to pay us, but the wheel can't be exported, so it can't EXIST over there, so our patents don't apply ... " "But I don't understand! You said you needed to catch people, but now you can hardly catch anyone!" Alice was totally astounded at what she was hearing. "It's only a stopgap measure anyway." Tweedledumber clasp his hands behind his back and started pacing. "We need to get an agreement with the Queen of Hearts that both of our people will only use, oh, say, pentagonal and maybe hexagonical wheels. That way, everyone can get around faster, but we'll still be able to catch them." "But who's WE?" "Anybody with a TLA on their shirt. WE get round wheels." "What's a TLA?" Alice almost felt relieved when she saw the familiar grin materialize. The rest of the Cheshire Cat soon followed. "A TLA, my dear, is a Three Letter Anachronism. When people start referring to you by your initials, you've overstayed your welcome. If everyone starts calling ME TCC, I'll know it's time to find another job." The caterpillar spoke up from its perch on the toadstool. "Wrong, tuna breath. TLA's are the only thing standing between society and total chaos." Alice turned to face the caterpillar, who responded by blowing a lungful of hookah smoke in her face. "THESE two goons only deal with the dangers of the Queen of Hearts and her soldiers, I have to worry about the domestic situation. So we came up with a solution. There are certain unscrupulous locals who engage in terrible things, terrorism, drug dealing, child molestation, money laundering ... we have to be able to catch them. If they had wheels, they could outrun us. But if we had ACCESS to those wheels when we needed it ... by the way, speaking of drug dealers, we know about that mushroom, and the pills. You might want to think really hard about playing ball with us, the Queen of Hearts is rather fond of cutting off dope addict's heads." "Access to wheels? Does that have anything to do with those ropes hanging off the back of those carts?" "Yup. We pull on that rope, the wheels fall off. And since we may have to stop a LOT of people at one time, we could have a riot, or another Butthole Surfers concert, we figure that we should be able to stop about ten percent of the population at once, a little less in the rural areas ... well, they've gotta be REALLY LONG ROPES ... and there have to be A WHOLE LOT of them ... course, the ones with the ropes we let have octagonal wheels ... " "But can't just anybody pull the rope? You'll have wheels falling off all over the place." "Price you have to pay for a safe society. Besides, we have trusted third parties holding to to the other end." "How will you get people to use it, when they can get regular wheels from the Cards?" "How else? We could pass a law. But it's easier just to threaten all the wheel dealers - put the rope on or we shut you down. Spread the word that only criminals don't use ropes - what are you afraid of? Got something to hide? Eventually we'll have to outlaw the round wheel, of course, but for the time being, some creative social engineering should do the trick." The caterpillar took another long drag on the hookah. "Good shit. Dole was right about this stuff." "But can't people get real wheels for free?" "Sure, we've pulled off enough they're lying around all over the place. But then you need an axle, bearings, steering - most people still just go down and buy the whole package. We get them, we're in - guy up in Seattle makes something like 90% of all carts sold here, you should see the shit we've got on HIM! No problemo. And those idiots at Netscape - we've got them doing a complete background check on anybody who wants a round wheel - come back in five days, and maybe you can have it." "So, Alice, are you learning anything?" Alice liked the Cheshire Cat, but it did have very sharp teeth, and very long claws, and it did have the habit of appearing out of nothing. Alice felt that it should be treated with respect. "Not really, your cattiness. It doesn't make any sense at all!" "It isn't supposed to. You have to look at it the right way. From their perspective, it makes perfect sense." "I'm confused." "Don't worry about it. It gets worse before it gets better. Come on, we're going to a party. Tim May and John Gilmore are throwing a Mad Tea Party." "Are they really mad?" "May's crazy as a loon. You'll like him. Gilmore, he's just still pissed at Shimamura for that stunt in the hot tub ... "

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CDR: Ebay4Sex Gets Laid
by Mary＠cyberpass.net 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

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CDR: algore ad
by Anonymous 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

I just made the mistake of turning on the television and caught the tail end of an algore ad slamming GW for his views on HMOs or somesuch. [Breathy female voice:] "Is it any surprise? Just look at Texas -- second to last in women and children without health insurance..." I would parse that to mean that Texas has some of the *highest* rates of insurance among women-and-children. Perhaps the portion of my brain which should control knee-jerk responses to black and white photographs of little hispanic girls with maudlin background music was replaced with basic logic rules when I wasn't looking. Silly me.

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CDR: HavenCo?
by Anonymous 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

http://www.havenco.com/products_and_services/index.html "beta launch in Q3 2000" ?

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