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CDR: thank you Mr. Bin Laden
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 12 Oct '00

12 Oct '00

Historical and current counter-US activities seem to be focussing more on hitting the .mil (and spyhqHHHembassies) vs. airlines. Members of the flying public appreciate your new, more-to-the-point focus, Osama, and your PR consultant should be praised. See you in Utah... By The Associated Press A look at recent terrorist attacks against United States interests. July 8, 1998 -- U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed, killing 224 people, 12 of whom were Americans. June 25, 1996 -- Truck bomb explodes outside the Khobar Towers housing complex near Dharan, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans and injuring more than 500 Americans and Saudis. Nov. 13, 1995 -- Car bomb detonates at a U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing five Americans. Sept. 13, 1995 -- Rocket-propelled grenade pierces wall of U.S. Embassy in Moscow, but causes no injuries. Dec. 21, 1988 -- Pan Am Boeing 747 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland on a flight from London to New York, killing 270 people. Sept. 5, 1986 -- Hijackers seize Pan Am jumbo jet carrying 358 people at Karachi Airport. Twenty people killed when security forces storm the plane. April 2, 1986 -- Four Americans killed when a bomb under a seat explodes on a TWA airliner en route from Rome to Athens. June 14, 1985 -- Shiite gunmen seize a TWA airliner and forced it to Beirut, Lebanon. U.S. Navy diver was killed and 39 Americans held hostage for 17 days. Sept. 20, 1984 -- Car bomb at U.S. Embassy annex in east Beirut, Lebanon kills 16 and injures the ambassador. Dec. 12, 1983 -- Shiite extremists set off car bombs in front of the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait City, killing five people and wounding 86. Oct. 23, 1983 -- Shiite suicide bomber blows up U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 Americans. April 18, 1983 -- Suicide car-bomber blows up U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans. Nov. 4, 1979 -- Islamic students storm U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.

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CDR: RE: Make legal threats, go to jail for 20 years cpunk
by Trei, Peter 12 Oct '00

12 Oct '00

> Declan McCullagh[SMTP:declan@well.com] wrote: > > This is from a bill that both the House and Senate passed (yesterday): > > Whoever knowingly provides or obtains the labor or services of a > person...by means of the abuse or threatened abuse of law or the legal > process, > shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or > both. > > URL: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.03244: > > I can imagine some abuses of this, in workplace situations or divorce > cases... > > -Declan > While almost any law can be abused, I think you'd need a really odd situation for normal people to be able to use this one abusively. For civilians, as far as I can see, it means that filing a totally bogus SLAPP suit, or (for example) threatening to make false reports of child abuse to get leverage in a divorce are now punishable beyond what they already are. Let us remember who the greatest abusers of law and the legal process are: LEAs and prosecutors. It appears to me that this law is far more a curb on the behaviour of bad cops and over-zealous DAs than anyone else. DAs too often obtain false testimony against third parties or plea bargains by threatening trumped-up charges. Corrupt cops can similarly threaten false or totally overblown charges to obtain services from the weak and defenseless. I suspect that in so far as far as any law can be considered 'good' this is one of the less bad ones. Of course, I rejoice that IANAL. Peter Trei

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CDR: take me off ur list thank you!
by Vanessa Lynch 12 Oct '00

12 Oct '00

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CDR: Re: Gov. Bush links Columbine massacre to Internet use
by Michael Motyka 12 Oct '00

12 Oct '00

G.W.Bush is mentally negligible. He's fully capable of linking Scooby Doo to the Columbine Massacre. And while right-wingers just attack the BOR from a different angle than left-wingers, Bush **may** be the minimal damage choice this time around. It's not a pretty picture.

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CDR: stats
by Knaps24＠aol.com 12 Oct '00

12 Oct '00

would you be able to send me statistics on how many people are killed by police officer fire in a year? thank you knaps24

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CDR: Stu Baker making an ass of himself at Surveillance by Desgn
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 12 Oct '00

12 Oct '00

In http://heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/konf/8847/1.html Mr Baker, who served as the General Counsel (senior lawyer) of the U.S. National Security Agency from 1992-1994, began his speech in "anonymous" disguise, wearing a large black cycle mask and a baseball cap turned back to front. He made a series of rude remarks about himself and others, in an attempt to show the dangers of what he called "the anonymity industry". The audience appeared baffled by his conduct. Does anyone have pictures online? ...later... Former NSA counsel Stuart Baker cited ZKS a week later as a leading member of the "anonymity industry" and claimed "in the long term, law enforcement will find ways to make anonymity partial". Companies like ZKS, he threatened, could in some countries face civil discovery suits, or even "could be charged with complicity in crime". Its "something to keep your eyes on", he added with apparent enthusiasm. We know who we should keep an eye on, Stu baby

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CDR: simonsingh on bbc
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 12 Oct '00

12 Oct '00

I am currently presenting a TV series for Channel 4 in Britain, entitled The Science of Secrecy. It airs on Thursday nights at either 9.00 or 9.30pm until November 2. The final programme includes an exclusive interview with Clifford Cocks, the secret co-inventor of RSA. This is the first time that a British Government cryptographer has been permitted to talk about his work. Details of the series can be found on the Channel 4 website The series is accompanied by a book entitled The Science of Secrecy. Please note, this is an adaptation of The Code Book, and so it will not be of interest to anybody who has already read The Code Book. It has the advantage of following the series more closely and contains more illustrations. Hence, I would certainly recommend it to anybody who has not read The Code Book, and who wants to learn more about cryptography having watched the TV series. I hope that the TV series will be shown overseas, but as yet there are no plans to do this. http://www.simonsingh.com/cipher.htm

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CDR: Satellite promotion with direct email
by Free.E.Book.traffic.20000＠unbounded.com 12 Oct '00

12 Oct '00

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CDR: Re: Multi-part security solutions (Was: Re: Rijndael & Hitachi)
by Paul Crowley 12 Oct '00

12 Oct '00

Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf(a)priori.net> writes: > The only reasons I see for having a security system (be it an encryption > product, or a physical access device) with a large discrepancy in the level > of security that the individual components provide is either: [snip reasons a, b and c] I'm sure you've thought of this, but there's also a reason (d): because the most convenient component for a particular application is vastly more secure than you need. When using a cipher as a component, you might as well use a ludicrously strong one like Rijndael or Blowfish, because there's nothing to be gained from using a weaker one. Good locks are more expensive than bad ones, but strong crypto is free. -- __ \/ o\ Employ me! Cryptology, security, Perl, Linux, TCP/IP, and smarts. /\__/ paul(a)cluefactory.org.uk http://www.cluefactory.org.uk/paul/cv/

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CDR: RE: Burglar Politics, Tempesting PC's that watch TV and DVD regio
by Trei, Peter 12 Oct '00

12 Oct '00

> ---------- > Lucky Green[SMTP:shamrock@cypherpunks.to] wrote: > Sunder wrote, quoting > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13863.html > > > > <SNIP> > [...] > > It's my understanding that TV detector vans work by picking up > > the radiation emitted by cathode ray tube TVs - which should mean > > that, if you're rich enough to run an LCD monitor they'll never > > know you're a secret Paxman admirer. > > A popular, but false, myth. The video cards radiate more than the CRT's. > Laptops tend to be the worst offenders. > > --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> > Yep. Most laptops have a video card for attaching an external monitor, with an unshielded port - they thus spray out monitor-driving RF signals while they run, regardless of whether there is a monitor out there to receive them. Of course, a *good* laptop design would power off the video card if it's not in use, to extend battery life if nothing else. I don't know if they do this. One of my home systems is a Compaq desktop with an LCD screen. It does *not* use a standard video cable: there is a pure digital interface for the LCD. (I've never investigated as to whether I can seperately remove the SVGA card or interface). Peter Trei

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