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CDR: Re: ZKS goes GAK
by Anonymous Remailer 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

>If the original Freedom product is: > >a. as unbreakable/untraceable as was originally planned (verdict is out, IMO) > >and > >b. is continued to be supported and distributed > >then why would the new "trusted third parties" system be needed? Risking to fall into the doomsayer trap, I would call this a classical "bait switch" technique. Bait was a genuine product, probably developed by the genuine company and people. Switch happened later, when men with guns decided to pick up this thing. But what really pisses me off is that seemengly intelligent people keep on ranting about their intentions. Who the fuck cares what the intentions are/were ? Establishing trust with the crypto-savvy is what ZKS did. That asset is owned by whoever owns the company, not by hired hands. And the use of that asset will be whatever they decide. Creating such an asset brings responsibility, and ZKS folks failed there: their work will be used for other purposes, and there is nothing they can do about it. Assuming that one can make money by providing protection from the people that print that money is just plain silly.

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CDR: Yahoo! News Story - $1 Million Pot Tax Bill Stirs Fight
by Yahoo! News 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

IRS (nobody(a)zedz.net) has sent you a news article ------------------------------------------------------------ Personal message: $1 Million Pot Tax Bill Stirs Fight http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ao/20001027/cr/_1_million_pot_tax_bill_stirs… ============================================================ Yahoo! News http://dailynews.yahoo.com/

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CDR: Yahoo! News Story - $1 Million Pot Tax Bill Stirs Fight
by Yahoo! News 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

IRS (nobody(a)zedz.net) has sent you a news article ------------------------------------------------------------ Personal message: $1 Million Pot Tax Bill Stirs Fight http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ao/20001027/cr/_1_million_pot_tax_bill_stirs… ============================================================ Yahoo! News http://dailynews.yahoo.com/

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CDR: Visit a hacked site, loose your computers.
by Trei, Peter 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

It'll probably be slashdotted by the time you get to it, but see: http://devrandom.net/~dilinger/ Andres Salomon, a fairly clued in RPI student, heard on IRC that the Yankees website had been hacked. He checked it out, noted some well-known Red Hat security holes, and came to the conclusion that there had been a DNS redirect attack. Total time: 5 minutes. The next day, the FBI raided his dorm room and seized his computers (along with a copy of ORA's DNS & BIND). He described them as 'nice' -after all, they left him his CD-Rs of mp3, divx & pr0n. Peter Trei

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CDR: Susan Landau on crypto policy
by R. A. Hettinga 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

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CDR: Re: Bush Calls Administration Encryption Policy "Outdated"
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

> Bush Calls Administration Encryption Policy "Outdated" > Responding to a question about encryption technology in an ongoing > Internet debate, Texas Gov. George W. Bush castigated President Clinton > and Vice President Gore for what he called "outdated" technology policy. > "The Clinton administration has repeatedly been slow to recognize the > realities of the international market for encryption products regulated by > our nationís export laws," Bush said in a written response posted on the > Web White & Blue Web page. > Read the article: Newsbytes @ > http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/157435.html > This Bush bit may sound positive but I expect increasingly draconian legitimate access legislation from both parties. Neither of them can be trusted and they will settle for nothing less than an absolute right to gather information and force key disclosure when they can't read it. If they can't have what they want today they will work towards tomorrow. Nonstop, like ants or termites. Mike

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CDR: IRS Tentacles grow
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

IRS Can Access Offshore Credit Info By Catherine Wilson AP Business Writer Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2000 7:38 a.m. EST MIAMI In a sweeping tax-evasion probe, the IRS has been granted access to thousands of MasterCard and American Express credit card accounts held by U.S. taxpayers in three offshore banking havens. U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan on Monday agreed with the IRS that cardholders may have violated U.S. tax laws and that their identities are not readily available from other sources. The court order allows the IRS to issue summonses for charge, debit and credit cards issued by banks in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and the country of Antigua and Barbuda in 1998 and 1999. Investigators want to look at such things as car, boat and airline ticket purchases and hotel and car rentals to learn whether the account holders are living beyond their reported means. The investigation is one of the largest targeting offshore accounts in the history of the Internal Revenue Service. MasterCard International spokeswoman Sharon Gamsin said in a statement that the company has "a long history of cooperating with governmental agencies." But she also said MasterCard keeps transaction records only by account number, with the bank keeping personal information. Judy Tenzer, a spokeswoman for American Express Travel Related Services Co., said, "We are now speaking to the IRS to get a better idea of what theyre looking at." Neither spokeswoman would answer questions. Offshore accounts are legal for U.S. taxpayers, but they must file forms with the IRS about them and pay taxes on income earned in the United States. The three nations targeted by the IRS have long been known as offshore tax havens and favorite spots for drug money launderers. Promoters of offshore accounts boast that income can be sheltered because the U.S. government cannot penetrate some foreign banking secrecy laws. But the IRS believed it could avoid those laws by getting records through the Miami headquarters of the companies Caribbean operations. The IRS does not know how many accounts created by U.S. citizens and residents are involved but believes the number to be in the thousands. Banks in the targeted islands require customers to open bank accounts before obtaining credit cards. So obtaining the names of the cardholders produces the names of the bank account holders as well. Fifteen countries and territories have been blacklisted by a 29-nation task force for failing to cooperate in the fight against money laundering. The Bahamas and Cayman Islands are among them, but officials in the Cayman Islands promised in June to end tax-haven practices within five years. Daniel Mitchell, a tax expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation, worried that the IRSs blanket record request would affect financial privacy. "We should not be trying to enforce a worldwide tax regime," he said. "It tends to lead to cartel-like behavior, OPEC for politicians, for lack of a better phrase." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001031/aponline073856_000.h…

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CDR: Words to live by
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

"The advantage of lone wolf and small cell activity is that it is untraceable and is the best use of our meager resources- no membership dues, rental of meeting halls, driving, lodging and time-off for endless conventions," Curtis says in an article on his Web site. "All of your personal and cell resources go to exactly what you want them for, not to a "leader" who lives off you." And rather than terrorizing people in public, the 26-year-old Curtis says, racists should strive to work in secrecy. His site includes articles advising against answering police questions under any circumstances. "Remember, talk is cheap!" one article says. "But when it involves law enforcement authorities, it may cost you, or someone close to you, dearly. Remember the 5 words -- I have nothing to say. It has worked for us many, MANY times." "Hate site threat to public, group says" http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti722.htm

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CDR: identity theft
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

Bruce McKim DOB: 2/26/69 Soc Sec. No.: 212-04-8280 Martin Benjamin (for classified) DOB: 7/6/68 Soc. Sec. No.: 089-56-3596 Mary De Wolfe Stone DOB: 7/7/63 Soc. Sec. No. : 047-60-6209 http://cryptome.org/usa-v-qaeda-po.htm

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CDR: when the Fedz come..
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

you are not being paranoid enough. The FBI managed to get a search warrant based on logs from a firewall, that showed my IP only connecting, not even logging in, hours after news of the cracking had appeared on news sites. If they can get a search warrant this easily, your data is not safe, sitting on your hard drive. For the past two months Ive been living in this dorm, I locked my doors, securified my boxes, and backed up my essential things. I never even imagined the federal government would just let themselves in and take it. excerpt from http://devrandom.net/~dilinger/ as seen on /.

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