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CDR: KJOC lists anarchy symbol with occult
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

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CDR: New crypto regs?
by Anonymous 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

[http://www.pscu.com/Newsbytes/2000/156920.html] New Encryption Regulations Take Effect On Today October 19, 2000 By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes. WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., Published By Newsbytes News Network In the final step toward matching the European Union's recent liberalization of rules governing the export of encryption products, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration has published a final rule allowing the export of encryption products of any strength to 15 EU nations and eight other trading partners. The announcement cements changes proposed in July, when the Clinton administration said it would relax laws governing the export of powerful encryption technologies to allow exports of all information-scrambling products to any end user in the European Union, as well as Australia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland. The move, designed to match recent shifts in encryption export policy for EU nations, also eliminates the 30-day waiting period that had been imposed on companies exporting encryption goods to EU nations and other trading partners. Instead, companies will now be required to submit a "commodity classification request," and will be allowed to ship products without waiting for a review from federal regulators. Previously, companies could export "retail" - or off-the-shelf - encryption products to nearly any country, except those labeled as terrorist or high-risk nations, such as China and Russia. But for exports of non-retail products, US companies had been required to obtain a license before they can export to the governments of any other country. By contrast, the EU allows companies in its member states to export encryption products without a license to a set list of 25 countries, and makes no distinction as to whether the end-user is a government or non-governmental entity. The new encryption regulations to take effect today eliminate the end user, retail and non-retail considerations for encryption exports destined for roughly 23 common trading partners. For more information on the published regulations, visit http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/Default.htm Reported by Newsbytes, http://www.newsbytes.com 11:57 CST Reposted 13:59 CST (20001019/WIRES ONLINE, PC, LEGAL, BUSINESS/ENCRYP/PHOTO)

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by anonymous＠openpgp.net 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

Subject: Photograph alteration CPUNK Last week a <NOECHELON>cannabis legalisation activist</NOECHELON> handed a posy of said plant, wrapped as if it had been bought in a florists' shop to Her Majesty the Queen. HRH accepted it as just another bunch of flowers, and the photographs hit the newsstands the next morning. As expected, all the papers had a different spin. However, none of the front page photographs showed a plant with flower. It would make no sense to hand HRH a handful of ugly weeds, and the guy who claimed responsibility referred to it as 'a pretty yellow flower'. This sent my bullshit meter into overdrive. Had the photos been doctored to distort the message of the <NOECHELON>activist?</NOECHELON> or merely "pruned" by the editor for one that doesn't advertise such horticulture to the masses? Is there anyone on the internet who is actively tracking forged/spun photographs, Photopunks if you will? I remember the storm here over *that* Elian pic. Perhaps this is in Declan's sphere of interest? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/

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Re: RC4 - To license or not?
by Vin McLellan 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

Stefan Arentz <stefan.arentz(a)soze.com> wrote: > [...] I do not want to buy a complete BSAFE license. > It is too expensive and I only need RC4. This is apparently a common misconception -- at least it keeps popping up among people discussing WAP, SSL, CDPD, and PPTP-compatible products, even IEEE-compatible embedded systems -- so (in the spirit of All Souls Day) I thought to double back and post a correction here. Boo! If your business plan (or your boss, or your investors, or your customers, etc.) requires, or makes it useful and valuable, for your firm to license RSA-branded RC4 implementation code -- as opposed using to one of the many copyleft "ARC4" implementations in wide circulation -- you should ask RSA for a quote on a RC4 license for your intended app. <shriek> RSA licenses RC4 code separately, upon request. Always has, AFAIK. (RC4 is, of course, MIT Professor Ron Rivest's widely trusted, widely adopted, defacto standardized, variable key-length stream cipher. "RC" was initially only Rivest's personal designation for crypto project in development, as in "Ron's Code." The best known Rivest ciphers are RC2, RC4, RC5, and RC6. (RC4 was reverse engineered and anonymously published on the Net in September, 1994. The same thing subsequently happened to RC2. RSA Security, the company Rivest co-founded to market the RSA public key cryptosystem and his other cryptographic wares, later chose to patent RC5 and RC6. Patents for crypto remain controversial, at least on the Net.) The idea of paying to use a cryptosystem -- and particularly Rivest's RC4 -- is scary, heretical, and painful to some... but others reportedly find RSA's BSAFE implementation code stable and dependable, and RSA's prices and T&Cs reasonable and flexible. YMMV, but RSA does a huge business selling "high assurance" code to OEMs and other firms seeking to implement various crypto protocols and both proprietary and public ciphersuites. See: <http://www.rsasecurity.com/standards/protocols/protocols_table.html> Trick or treat? Apparently, even among IT professionals, it is necessary <sigh> to occasionally announce that RSA does NOT require an OEM or an enterprise customer to license all the BSAFE ciphers and protocols -- there are, mind you, eight distinct and specialized BSAFE crypto toolkits from RSA -- when all a poor Developer wants is RC4. Such is the depth of the FUD piled up around RC4 -- like tinder and faggots stacked at the feet of a condemned witch no one hates enough to burn. Goblins, gallows, and gibbets, oh yeah! (All Hallows Eve is celebrated in the US as Halloween, an annual children's festival held after dark on the last day of October. Children who participate are urged to distinguish between horrors that are real and unreal. The participation of adults in the rituals, unfortunately, is frowned upon.) RC4 has become doubly famous as "the cipher none dare name." Clank, rattle, clink in the Crypt. Oh yeah! While many can now copy the robust simplicity of Rivest's RC4 logic -- and ARC4 ("Apparently RC4") code is widely deployed -- RSA still claims and defends its registered "RC4" trademark (and the copyright on its BSAFE implementation code.) Which is, of course, why RSA-branded RC4 code is still so often bought and sold. <shrieks & screams> Personally, I don't think that is demonic or even undeserved -- but then, I'm biased. I've been a consultant to RSA for years. (And I'm a wicca'd man at heart. I think the poor witches got a bad rap from all the jealous priests.) Happy Halloween, _Vin Vin McLellan * The Privacy Guild * Chelsea, MA USA

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CDR: Hey!
by Karen 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

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Please make sure you COPY ALL INFORMATION, every name and address, ACCURATELY! STEP #3 SAVE THIS LETTER Take this entire letter, including the modified list of names and save it to your computer. Make NO changes to these instructions. Now you are ready to use this entire e-mail to send via e-mail to new prospects. Report #1 will tell you how to download bulk e-mail software and e-mail addresses so you can send it out to thousands of new prospects while you sleep! Remember that 50,000 + new people are joining the Internet every month. Your cost to participate in this is practically nothing - surely you can afford $20 (US) and initial bulk mailing cost. You obviously already have a computer and an Internet connection and e-mail is FREE! PRIMARY METHODS OF BUILDING YOUR DOWNLINE: METHOD #1 SENDING BULK E-MAIL Let's say that you decide to start small, just to see how it goes and we'll presume you and all those involved e-mail out only 2,000 programs each. Let's also presume that the mailing receives a (0.5%) response. The response could be much better. Also, many people will e-mail out hundreds of thousands of programs instead of just 2,000 - why stop at 2,000? But continuing with this example, you send out only 2,000 programs. With a (0.5% ) response, that is only 10 orders for REPORT #1. Those 10 people respond by sending out 2,000 programs each for a total of 20,000. Out of those (0.5%) 100 people respond and order REPORT #2. Those 100 mail out 2,000 programs each for a total of 200,000 total. The (0.5%) response to that is 10,000 orders for REPORT #4. That's 10,000 FIVE DOLLAR BILLS for you. CASH!!! Your total income in this example is $50 + $500 + $5,000 + $50,000 for a total of $55,550. REMEMBER FRIEND, THIS IS ASSUMING 1,990 OUT OF THE 2,000 PEOPLE YOU E-MAIL TO WILL DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AND TRASH THIS PROGRAM! DARE TO THINK FOR A MOMENT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF EVERYONE, OR HALF SENT OUT 100,000 PROGRAMS INSTEAD OF JUST 2,000. You can believe many people will do just that, and more!!! METHOD #2 PLACING FREE ADS ON THE INTERNET Advertising on the Internet is very, very inexpensive, and there are HUNDREDS of FREE places to advertise. Let's say you decide to start small just to see how well it works. Presume your goal is to get ONLY 10 people to participate on your first level. (Placing a lot of FREE ads on the Internet will EASILY get a larger response.) Also, assume that everyone else in YOUR ORGANIZATION gets ONLY 10 downline members. Look how this small number accumulates to achieve the STAGGERING results below: ... 1st level - your first 10 send you $5 $50 ... 2nd level - 10 members from those 10 ($5 X 100) $500 ... 3rd level - 10 members from those 100 ($5 X 1,000) $5,000 ... 4th level - 10 members from those 1000 ($5 X 10,000) 50,000 $$$$$$$$$$ THIS TOTALS -------$55,550 $$$$$$$$$$ AMAZING ISN'T IT? Remember friends, this assumes that the people who participate only recruit 10 new people each. Think for a moment what would happen if they got 20 people to participate! Most people get 100's of participants and many will continue to work this program, sending out programs WITH YOUR NAME ON THEM for years!!! JUST THINK ABOUT IT!!! People are going to get e-mails about this program from you or somebody else and many will work this plan. The question is, don't you want your name to be on the e-mails they will send out? "You can't win the lotto unless you have a ticket." ***DON'T MISS OUT!!! *** JUST TRY IT ONCE!!! *** **SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!! ** YOU'LL BE AMAZED!!!** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~ GET STARTED TODAY - PLACE YOUR ORDER FOR THE FOUR REPORTS NOW. Notes: ALWAYS SEND $5 CASH (U.S. CURRENCY) FOR EACH REPORT. CHECKS NOT ACCEPTED. Make sure the cash is concealed by wrapping it in two sheets of paper. On one of those sheets of paper write: a) the number & name of the report you are ordering b) your e-mail address, and c) your name & postal address. REPORT #1 "The Insider´s Guide to Advertising for Free on the Internet" ORDER REPORT #1 FROM: Karen Burmeister PO Box 520049 Longwood, FL 32752-0049 REPORT #2 "The Insider's Guide to Sending Bulk E-mail on the Internet" ORDER REPORT #2 FROM: Richard A. Endicott W 180 Insels Rd. Shelton, Wa 98584 REPORT# 3 " The secrets of Multilevel Marketing on the Internet" ORDER REPORT #3 FROM: JIM G. BURGESS 14830 OLDE HWY.80 FLINN SPRINGS, CA 92021-2807 REPORT #4 "How to become a Millionaire utilizing the Power of Multilevel Marketing and the Internet" ORDER REPORT #4 FROM: Lars Pedersen Skejbygaardsvej 7, 1, 10 8240 Risskov Denmark **********TIPS FOR SUCCESS ********** TREAT THIS AS YOUR BUSINESS! Be prompt, professional, and follow the directions accurately. Send for the four reports IMMEDIATELY so you will have them when the orders start coming in because, when you receive a $5 order, you MUST send out the requested product/report. It is required for this program to qualify as a legal business, not to mention they need the reports to send out their letters (with your name on them!) ALWAYS PROVIDE SAME-DAY SERVICE ON THE ORDERS YOU RECEIVE. Be patient and persistent with this program - If you follow the instructions exactly - SUCCESSFUL results will follow.. $$$$$ ********** YOUR SUCCESS GUIDELINES ********** Follow these guidelines to guarantee your success: If you don't receive 20 orders for REPORT #1 within two weeks, continue advertising or sending e-mails until you do. Then, a couple of weeks later you should receive at least 100 orders for REPORT #2. If you don't continue advertising or sending e-mails until you do. Once you have received 100 or more orders for REPORT #2, YOU CAN RELAX, because the system is already working for you, and the cash will continue to roll in! THIS IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER; Every time your name is moved down on the list, you are placed in front of a DIFFERENT report. You can KEEP TRACK of your PROGRESS by watching which reports people are ordering from you. To generate more income simply send another batch of e-mails or continue placing ads and start the whole process again! There is no limit to the income you will generate from this business! ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? Before you make your decision as to whether or not you participate in this program, please answer one question, ARE YOU HAPPY WITH YOUR PRESENT INCOME OR JOB? If the answer is NO, then please look at the following facts about this super simple MLM program: ... 1. NO face to face selling, NO meetings, NO inventory! NO telephone calls, NO big cost to start, NOTHING to learn, NO skills needed! (Surely you know how to send e-mail?) ... 2. No equipment to buy - you already have a computer and Internet connection - so you have everything you need to fill orders! ... 3. You are selling a product which DOES NOT COST ANYTHING TO PRODUCE OR SHIP! (e-mailing copies of the reports is FREE!) ... 4. All of your customers pay you in CA$H! This program will change your LIFE FOREVER!!! Look at the potential for you to be able to quit your job and live a life of luxury you could only dream about! Imagine getting out of debt and buying the car and home of your dreams and being able to work a super high paying leisurely easy business from home! $$$$$ FINALLY MAKE SOME DREAMS COME TRUE! $$$$$ ACT NOW! Take your first step toward achieving financial independence and personal freedom for you & your family. Order the reports and follow the program outlined above - SUCCESS will be your reward. PLEASE NOTE: If you need help with starting a business, registering a business name, learning how income tax is handled, etc., contact your local office of the Small Business Administration (a Federal Agency) at 1 (800) 827-5722 for free help and answers to questions. Also, the Internal Revenue Service offers free help via telephone and free seminars about business tax requirements. Your earnings are highly dependent on your activities and advertising. The information contained in this program constitutes no guarantees stated nor implied. In the event that it is determined that this program constitutes a guarantee of any kind, that guarantee is now void. The earnings amounts listed in this program are estimated only. If you have any questions of the legality of this program, contact the Office of Associate Director for Marketing Practices, Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection in Washington, DC. ================================================== Under Bill s. 1618 TITLE III passed by the 105th US Congress this letter cannot be considered spam as long as the sender includes contact information and a method of removal. This is a one time e-mail transmission. No request for removal is necessary.

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CDR: IP: Zero-Knowledge Conference on Privacy Compliance & Business
by R. A. Hettinga 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

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CDR: Are your bills too high?...we can help!!!
by theboyz24＠zeststore.com 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

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CDR: anonymous e-money
by McMeikan, Andrew 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I posted a story on K5 http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2000/10/19/55737/381 and seemed to ignor some legal points (like money laundering). If anyone has any comments I would like to hear them. cya, Andrew... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOfD7HkAhpS53eUNhEQLjrACfTdYwZ7rjnxOBSVz5qRss2FNhcq0AoIn/ cg8D60j1zbGZZOUKJLSlxiKF =XCRn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, copying or other use of, or taking any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from your system. Utility Services Corporation (USC) is not responsible for any changes made to the material other than those made by USC or for the effect of the changes on the meaning of the material.

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CDR: Congressmen spar over police administrative subpoena-snooping bill
by Declan McCullagh 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

[Also Rep. Bill McCollum, hardly a friend of privacy, has been defending it in the House. --Declan] http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/20/2341243&mode=nested Congressmen Duel Over Police Snooping Bill posted by cicero on Friday October 20, @11:31PM from the with-friends-like-these dept. Privacy defenders and privacy invaders spent this week sparring over a bill called the Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000. Already approved by the Senate, it's set to be voted on by the House shortly. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the wiretap-happy senator who likes to pose as an occasional friend of civil liberties, is a sponsor, as is Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican who's been trying to buff his image among geeks. Rep. Bob Barr (R-Georgia) may be on a campaign to ban abortion and indict Democrats, but at least he's usually a reliable ally when limiting government surveillance; he opposes the measure. The bill would allow police to obtain records on you from third parties (think ISP, telephone company) without a search warrant. It's designed to be used against violent criminals, but it sets a dangerous precedent. See letters below. Letters from Barr opposing and McCollum supporting: http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/20/2341243&mode=nested

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CDR: Word.
by George＠Orwellian.Org 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

Of course all of us knew this. The article is good for explaining to non-technical friends. http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB972002214791170991.htm October 20, 2000 Electronic Form of 'Invisible Ink' Inside Files May Reveal Secrets By MICHAEL J. MCCARTHY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ST. PAUL, Minn. -- For weeks this summer, Mike Ciresi's campaign staff was baffled by a strange series of e-mail messages slamming the U.S. Senate candidate. Sent to Minnesota Democratic Party officials, the messages were signed by a Katie Stevens. But after a failed attempt to track her down, Mr. Ciresi's staff began to suspect foul play. The first e-mail, which arrived in May, impugned the candidate's ethics and those of his Minneapolis law firm. It was accompanied by six pages of court cases, citations and footnotes. The attachments convinced Mr. Ciresi's staff that the e-mail was part of a well-funded "opposition research" effort. But two months and three negative e-mails later, his staff still had nothing to go on. Then in July, one tenacious Ciresi aide, playing a hunch, made a few mouse clicks and uncovered an intriguing clue: hidden text that seemed to link the e-mail to the campaign of the Republican incumbent. Tracking the Metadata It turns out there's more than meets the eye in the average word-processing document. A typical Microsoft Word file, for example, can include the author's name, the name of his or her company, the names of each person who has worked on the document and, depending on the options selected, deleted text and other revisions, all hidden from view, as if written in invisible ink. That's because Word, the dominant word-processing software, contains a lot of what Microsoft Corp. calls "metadata," information that doesn't appear on a user's screen simply because commands in the file tell computer monitors and printers to ignore it. But a savvy reader can peek at much of this behind-the-scenes fiddling by using widely available text-reader programs, such as Notepad, or by simply selecting the right word-processing options. Sometimes, depending on a computer's settings, Word revisions that weren't at all visible to the writer are obvious to the recipient. And when those documents get zapped through cyberspace as e-mail attachments, the inside information they contain can set the sender up for embarrassment or worse. 'Highlight Changes' One such e-mail snafu in Seattle sent both parties scrambling for fixes. In late 1998, Payne Consulting Group received an e-mail that included an attached contract prepared for it by its law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine. By clicking on the "highlight changes" option, Payne and the law firm say, Payne could clearly see revisions that revealed the contract had originally been drafted for another Davis Wright client. The law firm quickly devised security procedures for removing hidden text from its files. Payne, meanwhile, developed a free program called Metadata Assistant to purge any unseen, unwanted information from documents. The program can be downloaded from the firm's Web site, www.payneconsulting (www.payneconsulting.com) One reason Payne doesn't charge for it: "We can't guarantee everything is stripped out," says Robert Affleck, vice president of development. "The big concern is that people are sending around things they don't know they're sending around," says Steve McDonald, associate legal counsel at Ohio State University, who teaches a class in cyberspace law. Microsoft has "gotten few customer complaints" about the problem, says Lisa Gurry, a product manager for Microsoft Office. But she adds that those will be addressed in late spring in the next version of Microsoft Office, which will include a "privacy option" to allow a Word document's author to "remove all personal information with the click of one button and be warned if you're saving tracked changes and comments." For now, Microsoft offers a nine-page article through its Web site on "How to Minimize Metadata in Microsoft Word Documents." It was this kind of data that gave Ciresi campaign aides the first break in their investigation of the e-mails plaguing their candidate. The first in the series, titled "Who Is Michael Ciresi?", arrived May 19. It described the clients of law firm Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi as "a rogues' gallery of polluters, price fixers, tortfeasors, predators, civil-rights violators and frauds." A second searing e-mail arrived just before Minnesota Democrats convened in early June to endorse a candidate in the state's senatorial race. A third followed. Then, a fourth. "I was getting so frustrated trying to figure out where these came from," recalls Mark Hinds, the campaign's deputy field director. But as he sat thinking at his desk in the Democratic Party's offices here in early July, a light bulb clicked on. Mr. Hinds suddenly recalled how at a previous job he used to sort Word documents by using keywords and names in the program's "properties" box. With that in mind, he clicked on the Word attachment to the fourth and latest e-mail, OIL SPILL LOBBYISTS.doc. The properties box, which he found by using Word's file menu, instantly showed that the document was created July 8 and was "Last Saved by: Chris Gunhus." His thoughts immediately turned to Christine Gunhus, the political director and former chief of staff for Sen. Rod Grams, the Republican Mr. Ciresi had been hoping to unseat. "Come here, you gotta see this," Mr. Hinds says he called out to fellow campaign workers, who gathered around his computer. They started searching through the previous e-mails. The first one said "Last Saved by: Kinko's Customer" and listed "gunhus" as the author. They found other names and more dates and times that the documents had been created and stored. The Ciresi campaign alerted local authorities to its discoveries, which were first reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The campaign alleged that the masquerade wasn't just a political dirty trick but a possible misdemeanor. A Minnesota law, which was designed to discourage anonymous attacks on politicians, requires those involved in election campaigns to disclose that fact in any political literature they prepare or distribute. The law exempts individuals who spend less than $300 on their activities and observe certain other limits. By late August, the Anoka County attorney's office had amassed enough evidence to persuade a judge to let it seize two computers and nine computer disks from Ms. Gunhus's Ham Lake, Minn., home. Asked if Ms. Gunhus was involved in writing or editing any of the e-mails under investigation, Doug Kelley, her attorney, wouldn't comment. "In the long run," he says, "she will be found not to have violated any laws." Ms. Gunhus declined to be interviewed. Sen. Grams's campaign denies that it produced or authorized the e-mails. But after discovering the names tucked deep inside the e-mail messages, Bob Decheine, the Ciresi campaign manager, believes otherwise. "We think we have found a smoking gun," he says. County investigators, however, proceeded carefully, after learning that anyone could easily have framed Ms. Gunhus by entering her name in the properties box. "I could put in that 'William Shakespeare' is the author," says Bryan Lindberg, the assistant attorney leading the inquiry. But then, Mr. Lindberg says, his team uncovered a more substantive link. Subpoenaed phone and Internet-access records linked the "Katie Stevens" Hotmail account used to send the attack e-mails to a Kinko's document-processing center and a phone line listed as belonging to Ms. Gunhus's home, according to an affidavit filed by the county attorney's office as part of its search-warrant request. "The telephone number back to the Gunhus residence in Ham Lake gave us the probable cause to look at her computers," Mr. Lindberg says. Mr. Ciresi lost his state's Democratic primary last month. The investigation into the e-mail messages continues.

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