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CDR: Events in DC: Gun control, McCaffrey on "Our Balanced Approach to Drug Policy is Working"
by Declan McCullagh 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

SOCIAL ISSUES News conference to highlight the negligence of the House of Representatives to act on sensible gun safety proposals. Participants: Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.; Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y.; Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., and Nina Butts, Texans Against Gun Violence Location: HC-5, U.S. Capitol. 1 p.m. Contact: 202-225-3661 SOCIAL ISSUES National Public Broadcasting/FRONTLINE and National Public Radio Symposium on "U.S. Drug War Policy" for media and invited guests. Highlights: 8:55 a.m. - Panel 1, "Treatment and Educations v. Prohibition and Punishment" 10:10 a.m. - Panel 2, "Social Justice and the War on Drugs" 11:45 a.m. - Barry McCaffrey, national drug czar, "Our Balanced Approach to Drug Policy is Working" 2 p.m. - Panel 3, "The International War on Drugs," broadcast live on NPR News' "Talk of the Nation" 3 p.m. - Panel 4, "The Drug Business," broadcast live Location: Georgetown University Law Center, New Jersey Ave., NW. 8:45 a.m. Contact: To join broadcast discussions call 800-989-TALK; for information call Chris Kelly, 617-300-3375 HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Jeremy and Julia Crime Subcommittee hearing on H.R.469, Jeremy and Julia's Law. Location: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building. 1:30 p.m. Contact: 202-225-3951 http://www.house.gov/judiciary SOCIAL ISSUES Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) National Youth Summit to Prevent Underage Drinking, September 29-October 4. Highlights: 9:45 a.m. - Party Group #6 11 a.m. Closing General Session: "So Now What Do We Do?" Location: National 4-H Center, 7100 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase, MD. 9:45 a.m. Contact: 214-744-6233, ext. 216, or http://www.madd.org TECHNOLOGY Wall St. Journal Technology Summit 2000: The Next Economy - Business, Public Policy and the Internet. Location: Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. Contact: 800-457-5766; http://www.tpsite.com/wsj_TS2000/program.html TELECOMMUNICATIONS Nortel Networks Policy luncheon on the issue of "Exploring Broadband Possibilities." Participants: Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Clarence Chandran, COO, Nortel Networks and Elliot Maxwell, special adviser to the Secretary of Commerce for the digital economy Location: 902 Hart Senate Office Building. 12 noon Contact: Walter Kallaur, 202-508-3607

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CDR: VASCO gizmos
by Marcel Popescu 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

Hi! Anybody knows anything about the VASCO Data Security gizmos' algorithm? [You enter your pin, and it generates a 7-digit number, which is synchronized with the number on the server you're authenticating to; the number is valid for 30 secs or 1 minute, I'm not sure.] We just got some at our company, and they're open to at least a replay attack, but I'm curious what algorithm do they use for generating those numbers. Mark --- All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification.

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CDR: RE: Anonymous Remailers cpunk
by Trei, Peter 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

There's no way which can't be spoofed by a determined opponent willing to send truly weird looking messages (as I demonstrated in an earler post), but that's not the point. I suggest that you just look for ascii-armouring - ie, long (>50 byte) printable character strings without embedded spaces. If the majority of the body has this format, then call it encrypted. And/or look for the standard tag strings for smime or pgp encrypted text, if you're worried about unencrypted but uuencoded naughty pictures being sent. You can't catch everything, but you can do reasonable due diligence to stop spammers and filter out non-contrived unencrypted content. Peter Trei > ---------- > From: Tom Vogt[SMTP:tom@ricardo.de] > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 4:36 AM > To: Trei, Peter > Cc: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Anonymous Remailers cpunk > > "Trei, Peter" wrote: > > I would like to suggest that a remailer could eliminate nearly all it's > > problems by only sending out encrypted mails - that is, if after > > removing the encryption that was applied using it's own private > > key, it finds that the result is plaintext, it simply drops the message. > > I like that idea. so much that I might start a remailer with these > properties, in order to test it out. > > single question left: what is a reliable way to see whether or not a > text is plain or cipher? >

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CDR: Niiice kitty....
by R. A. Hettinga 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

Another addition to my expanding .sig file quote collection. Personally, of course, I think Chomsky something of a brilliant yutz, politically, :-). Nonetheless, the Churchill quote below is especially apt in describing the USA's current geopolitical situation. Here's hoping the US fares better in its own version of the 20th-century British tiger-ride. Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text

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CDR: Editor's Choice: Leading Classic-Growth Stocks, 10/4/00
by Hoover's Online 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

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CDR: anonymous PGP-only remailers
by Tom Vogt 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

"cypherpunks write code", wasn't it? :) here's my first proposal. a simple perl script that should find out whether any given message (piped from stdin) is a PGP message or not. it does NOT accept messages with more than 10 non-blank, non-encrypted lines. why? well, you might have a few lines of .sig, but we don't want to accept your spam simple because you have three fake PGP-lines at the bottom, right? I'm not a perl-guru, so this can most likely be reduced to less than half the space. :) and no, it's NOT an algorithm that can check whether something is plain- or ciphertext. it's for PGP messages ONLY. please tell me whether or not you find a way to make it accept spam as legitimate, or deny a PGP mail. #!/usr/bin/perl $is_crypted=false; $stage=0; $body=0; $lines=0; $lines_fit=0; $other_lines=0; while (<>) { if ($body==0&&/^$/) { $body=1; } if ($body==0) { next; } if ($stage==0&&/^-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----$/) { $stage=1; next; } if ($stage==1&&//) { $stage=2; next; } if ($stage==2&&/^-----END PGP MESSAGE-----$/) { if ($lines_fit+3>$lines) { $stage=3; } else { print "malformed PGP message\n"; exit 1; } } if ($stage==2&&/^(.*)$/) { $line=$1; $line =~ s/ //g; if (length($line)>0) { $lines++; } if (length($line)==64) { $lines_fit++; } next; } $other_lines++; } if ($other_lines>10) { print "too many non-encrypted lines\n"; exit 1; } if ($stage==3) { exit 0; } else { print "not a PGP message\n"; exit 1; }

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CDR: ICANN's final list of new TLDs
by George＠Orwellian.Org 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

It's comment time. http://www.icann.org/tlds/tld-applications-lodged-02oct00.htm Gee, I wonder what the rules for ".sucks" will be, legally.

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CDR: HTTP and SSL
by Augusto Jun Devegili 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

Hi all, I need to implement a C++ client (Linux) which must connect to an HTTP Server using SSL (HTTPS). Which libraries could I possibly use, considering both SSL and HTTP? TIA, Augusto

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CDR: Re: A famine averted...
by Ken Brown 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

Ulf Mvller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:54:34PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote: > > > NB in a real famine (as opposed to temporary shortages, which a place > > like Belize can probably get through with less hassle than a richer more > > efficient economy with all our "Just in Time" suppliers) food prices go > > *down* at first... strange but true. It is due to farmers unloading > > stock to get money in as quickly as they can. > > Why would they want to do that? Because they are afraid they will need to get out quickly so they want to turn goods into money if they can. Also there is the price-of-meat effect which has often been observed in Africa, as much as 18 months before a famine gets serious. If people are running out of feed for their livestock (for example in a drought) they sell them rather than watch them starve. So the price of meat goes down. This can also temporarily depress the price of other food (which, of course, doesn't help peasant farmers or nomads who graze their cattle). Ken

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Re: CDR: Re: Re: Shunning, lesbians and liberty
by James A.. Donald 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

-- At 02:05 PM 10/1/2000 +0300, Sampo A Syreeni wrote: > I believe death precisely of the kind described above do/did occur > (e.g. the famines in Africa, often caused by those responsible for > the production of food acting purely in their own interest) That is nonsense. Famines in Africa are caused by communism and socialism, notably the famous Ethiopian famines that occurred under Mengistu, or by war, notably the famous Biafran famine. Famines are never caused by people acting in their own interests. They are most commonly caused by pious benevolent socialists imposing the greater good with whip and red hot irons, burning, torturing and killing because they love people so very much. Famines are most commonly caused by socialists whose care for the suffering of anonymous strangers is so deep and heartfelt, whose love and concern for the faceless oppressed masses is so vast, that they will hold a child's face in the flames to force her mother to reveal where the seed corn is hidden. After all, we cannot let those damned peasants look out for their own selfish interests, can we? We love them too much to permit them such wickedness, and the flesh burning off from the bone on the face of a child is proof of how vital our mission is to save the peasants from themselves, proof of how much the peasant's wicked greedy selfishness puts them in need of our vast benevolent virtue, kindness, and generosity. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG WHgM6bgCZEmn9Quy1QeqWHncZdBzSxBjw/Hx/QyQ 41uHa233d7BE6K/WL7V4TqV6ovKUt4romaxLWduGE

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