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CDR: Homeworker Needed
by drognan＠tm.net.my 18 Oct '00

18 Oct '00

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CDR: Re:Your Financial Independence
by success＠em118.net 17 Oct '00

17 Oct '00

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CDR: Gore and Bush during debate: Equal-opportunity censors?
by Declan McCullagh 17 Oct '00

17 Oct '00

http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/18/042235&mode=nested Gore and Bush: Equal-Opportunity Censors? posted by cicero on Tuesday October 17, @10:58PM from the affirmative-action-for-censorhappy-politicos dept. There was something absent from this evening's presidential debate, and it wasn't Al's horn-blowing sighs or Dubya's runny-nosed sniffles. What was missing was an appreciation for the benefits of free speech, the perils of blocking software, and the hazards of blaming the world's woes on the Internet. In response to an audience question about "the morality of our country," both candidates talked up rating systems, blamed Hollywood, and recommended having the government help parents who have, allegedly, failed. Al Gore, who likes to talk about privacy, waxed downright Carnivorous over a "feature that allows parents to automatically check, with one click, what sites your kids have visited lately.. if you can check up on them, then you -- that's real power." Quoth Bush, who had similar ideas: "There ought to be filters in public libraries, and filters in public schools, so that if kids get on the Internet, there's not going to be pornography or violence coming in." Bush was talking about legislation currently before Congress that ties filtering to checks from the Feds. Relevant excerpt from transcript: http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/18/042235&mode=nested

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CDR: NSA into cyberwar soon
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 17 Oct '00

17 Oct '00

U.S. spy chief: Cyberspace a potential battlefield BALTIMORE, Maryland (Reuters) -- The head of the super-secret U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) said Monday that cyberspace had become as important a potential battlefield as any other and held out the prospect of attacking there as well as defending. "Information is now a place," Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden told a major computer security conference here. "It is a place where we must ensure American security as surely as ... and, sea, air and space." He cited moves to define the "legal structure into which we must fit" before offensive "information operations" -- cyberattacks -- were officially added to the arsenal that U.S. commanders can use against a foe. The NSA is the Defense Department arm that intercepts communications worldwide. The world of information "has taken on a dimension within which we will conduct operations to ensure American security," Hayden said, adding that the NSA had not been authorized to do "that attack thing," or go on the offensive in cyberspace. "But as the United States government begins to think about what it should or wants to do when it is under attack, it raises a really interesting question that we all have to work through in the context of our overall democracy," he said. A year ago Army Gen. Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, disclosed that the United States tried to mount electronic attacks on Serbian computer networks during the NATO air campaign over the province of Kosovo. "We only used our capability to a very limited degree," Shelton told reporters at the time. Hayden said a key challenge to the NSA today was to protect U.S. telecommunications in a world where the adversaries might be "cyberterrorists, a malicious hacker or even a non-malicious hacker." "All can cause great harm" to the networked systems that tie the industrialized world together, he told the conference co-sponsored by the NSA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an arm of the Commerce Department. Hayden said the NSA, the Pentagons codemaking and codebreaking agency, was committed to developing its partnerships with industry to boost computer network security. "Weve done pioneering work to better protect e-commerce" as well as to develop biometrics, ways in which computers authenticate identities from unique traits such as fingerprints, iris scans and voice recognition, he said. Ultimately the NSA must become the "security statement" of the U.S. telecommunications and computer industries, just as he views the Air Force as the "military statement" of the aviation industry, he said. "How else does our society develop the tools we need to do what it is that our agency has been charged to do?" he asked. The NSA designs codes to protect the integrity of U.S. information systems and searches for weaknesses in foes systems and codes. http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/10/17/tech.internet.security.reut/in…

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CDR: Unified Cryptologic Architecture
by John Young 17 Oct '00

17 Oct '00

The bibliography of another NSA reorganization report released today lists several entries under "Unified Cryptologic Architecture" as well as a "U.S. Cryptologic Strategy - Preparing for the 21st Century." There is also a citation of "SINEWS - GCHQ Modernization and Change Program." We would appreciate leads or pointers for getting these documents. Here's the main text second report: http://cryptome.org/nsa-reorg-net.htm

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CDR: Re: thanx
by John Galt 17 Oct '00

17 Oct '00

That was not rude. This is rude: it is my fervent wish that someone as stupid as yourself under no circumstances breed. To be more exact, it is my wish that you never become a "fucker" so to speak. Since you can't look in a goddamn Loompanics catalog to get the Anarchist's Cookbook, you have no hope of ever understanding it, and it would be even MORE rude of me to actually give you a copy, since a good portion of the recipies contained therein are almost certain to cause death or grave bodily injury if followed as written. I really cannot see the down side in this, but I also do not wish to have your moronic blood on my hands, even by proxy, as I fear that idiocy such as yours might have some infectious element. I have included cypherpunks in this thread again, as I'm pretty sure that your idiocy should propagate on the off chance that somebody actually wanted to send a copy of the AC to you. On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, diego wrote: > thanx fucker > goddamn rude man > -- Galt's sci-fi paradox: Stormtroopers versus Redshirts to the death. Who is John Galt? galt(a)inconnu.isu.edu, that's who!

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CDR: A famine averted...
by Jim Choate 17 Oct '00

17 Oct '00

Hi, The thesis has been made that all famines are the cause of government intervention. I was asked to provide two examples. I also thought of an example where a famine was averted due to government intervention. The current hurricane in Belize. Had the government not stepped in and 'price fixed' the stores would have been depleted and cached by the few a week ago. Why in major disasters do prices go up, when it is clear this is contrary to the best interest of the market? That without price fixing the majority of people will be left without. Why is this hands-off philosophy not held accountable for its failings? I must assume that the resultant famine due to price inflation by the individual resource owners is still a result of that government interference. ;) ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CDR: RE: Re: why should it be trusted?
by Kerry L. Bonin 17 Oct '00

17 Oct '00

At 10:06 AM 10/17/00 -0500, Fisher Mark wrote: >It is just a whole lot easier to do a black-bag job on a North Korean >embassy (for example) than to directly attack their crypto. That is why >defense companies do background checks, that is why some areas of military >facilities are guarded by soldiers with guns, and that is why the NSA tried >to conceal all evidence of their existence for a while. Crypto is just one >part of a unified security policy -- sometimes not a very important part at >that. I don't dispute this, my choice of words was "Sure, they devote significant resources to exploiting weaknesses in key management." "Rubber hose" and "black bag" cryptanalysis have a long history of being far more cost effective than brute force.

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CDR: NSA Releases Reorg Reports
by John Young 17 Oct '00

17 Oct '00

NSA released today on its Web site two reports on its reorganization, one by an external team of 27 page, another of 76 pages by an internal team. Both are big PDF files. We have converted the first to HTML: http://cryptome.org/nsa-reorg-et.htm (77KB) Here is an excerpt: "We interviewed about one hundred people in the Agency, including most senior leaders, and asked very specific questions about the way people operate and the embedded culture. We learned the Agency is a very bureaucratic government organization, and that most of the behavior patterns were established during the 1970s and 1980s when there was plenty of money to execute its mission. NSA appears to operate like an entitlement program. Most people in the Agency are highly motivated and work very hard, but a portion does not. We also found a leadership culture that appears most interested in focusing on their positions and protecting their people's jobs at the expense of accomplishing the mission. Most of the people at NSA are hired night out of college and spend their entire lives in the Agency. Regardless of their work performance and their job responsibility, the Agency promotes people roughly at the same rate. The institution encouraged people to get deeply involved in the promotion process, to the point that civilian personnel wrote their own promotion reports, and supervisors endorsed the reports even if they did not agree, mostly to prevent animosity. However, the most critical aspect of the people and culture in the institution was the mindset related to lack of empowerment and accountability. NSA's present culture overemphasizes loyalty to a particular function and its associated senior leadership, instead of full and frank discussions of problems, issues and concerns. This has created a culture that discourages sending bad news up the chain of command. The staff knows NSA is falling behind and is not properly addressing the inherent problems of the emerging global network, and the present management infrastructure does not appear to be supporting the required changes. In addition, we are concerned the present mindset fostered a society where people were afraid to express their own thoughts. Even though people spoke to us with true candor, they always wanted to avoid attribution because of the perception that the information was going to be used against them." From: External Team Report: a Management Review for the Director, NSA, October 22, 2000 http://www.nsa.gov/releases/nsa_external_team_report.pdf (2.7MB) Second report: http://www.nsa.gov/releases/nsa_new_enterprise_team_recommendations.pdf (6.4MB)

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CDR: Save your credit before its too late!!!!
by tharvey25＠melrun.org 17 Oct '00

17 Oct '00

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