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[tor-talk] Putin's fascist band intend to ban the Tor
by James Brown 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Putin's fascist junta intend to ban the Tor and other anonimous services: http://izvestia.ru/news/535724 "MPs claim that the adoption of legislative initiatives on which state agencies can block access to sites containing illegal content, there is still a lot of work in this area. In particular, members are going to limit the use of the programs, masking the information data and IP-address of users - anonymizers. The fact is that if the decision of the court will be locked out of Internet users to a particular site, the last by proxy will visit the pages blocked site. For example, with these programs, users in China and Belarus very well go to those sites to which local authorities are blocking access. In this regard, representatives of the lower house of Parliament propose to ban the software, then there is a proxy server that is installed on the user's computer, or browsers with built anonymizer for example browser Tor. In addition to masking tools of deputies web servers - standalone sites, with the help of which users can establish special programs to pass the modified IP-address on the blocked sites. Such amendments will be made to the Federal Law "On Information, Information Technology and Information Security" and the law "On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development," which has already undergone changes this summer and which had been prescribed norms helping to block sites with illegal content. According to the author of amendments to the legislation on blocking access to sites with illegal content deputy Yaroslav Nil, the question of a possible ban on the proxies will be discussed within the walls of the State Duma. - We now have a committee on information policy, information technology and communications, and on it we will discuss the possibility and feasibility of introducing a ban on the use of software, which can mask the Internet - says Nilov. - It is quite logical decision after we have amended the possibility of blocking sites containing illegal content. According to another co-author of the laws of the blocking of websites with illegal content - Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Sergei Zheleznyaka parliamentarians intend to continue to shield users from illegal content on the Web. - Of course, the decisions that we have made in recent years in the information security of users on the Internet, are not our latest initiatives, - says Zheleznyak. - We're going to continue to fight the "harmful" content of our networks, including software that allows any way to mask Internet crime. For breach of access to the network by the user using anonymizer could face punishment - from blocking access to the Internet through an ISP to a quite reasonable fines. In addition to the legislators to ban proxy in Russia are the representatives of some social movements. The leader of the organization's anti-pedophile "Headhunters" by Sergey Zhuk, mostly proxies are used to commit crimes on the Internet. - Our organization supports the ban proxy in Russia. Around 99% of those who use anonymizers to hide their information data to commit crimes. Whether economic crimes on the Web, or viewing of child pornography, or to access blocked sites - says the beetle. - Then it prevents the investigating authorities find criminals, and probably would have been extremely useful to prohibit the use of anonymizers. Experts in the field of information technology argue that providers can identify subscribers using anonymizers when visiting websites. However, they doubt the effectiveness of measures already taken to block sites with illegal content or that prohibit anonymizers. CTO LETA Alexander Bondarenko points to technical problems in the implementation of this idea. - They have already legislated solutions to block sites containing illegal content. But the decision to block the sites and bans on the use of proxy are malorealizuemymi - said Bondarenko. - Technically competent users will still find a way to circumvent the ban. As with the server locks up, and when blocking of websites will be immediately blocked their new mirror sites and servers. Therefore, most likely, and already taken and planned solutions will remain formal." _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[sfs-dev] ANNOUNCE: Patriot S/WAN 1.0 Released!
by Ken Bantoft 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi Folks, JuanJo Ciarlante and I are pleased to announce the release of Patriot S/WAN v1.0. What is this exactly? Read on... Those of you who've followed Super FreeS/WAN development will have noticed our current trend of supporting less and less secure ciphers, including the NULL cipher, and last month, Single DES. We've decided to take this one step futher, since there is alot of uncertainty these days with crypto export regulations for US Citizens. So we've forked Super FreeS/WAN and disabled the high grade ciphers. Thanks to a special grant from the US Government, JuanJo was able to take the time to write the ipsec_rot13 module, so we can finally support rot13 encryption for VPNs! This means the package can be freely exported out of the US with no restrictions, even to countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. You can download Patriot S/WAN from http://www.freeswan.ca/code/patriotswan or http://downloads.freeswan.ca/patriotswan today, and start building VPN's while still allowing the US Government to eavesdrop on all of your communications. Never worry about a court-ordered wiretap again! -- Ken Bantoft The Unoffical FreeS/WAN Site: ken(a)freeswan.ca http://www.freeswan.ca PGP Key: finger ken(a)bantoft.org The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. -- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Super FreeS/WAN development mailing list sfs-dev(a)lists.freeswan.ca http://lists.freeswan.ca/mailman/listinfo/sfs-dev Sponsored by Astaro - http://www.astaro.com --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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[Politech] Details of how Australian "e-passports" will work [priv]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Politech submission: Australian ePassports - Minister states random UID used Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:16:14 +1000 From: Irene Graham <execdir(a)efa.org.au> To: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> Declan Information about the implementation of chips in Australian ePassports has recently been provided by the Aust. Minister for Foreign Affairs in response to written questions asked in the Aust. Senate by Senator Natasha Stott Despoja (Aust. Democrats). As has been previously mentioned on Politech, e.g. http://www.politechbot.com/2005/11/02/replies-to-us/ one of the concerns is whether chips emit a random or fixed UID and whether in fact any chip manufacturers implement random UIDs. The Aust. Minister has stated that the chip in the Aust. ePassport emits a random UID and that the UID does not contain any data that might allow identification of the issuing authority (Aust. Gov) or that the chip is in an ePassport. Obviously that info only applies to the Aust. ePassport - the U.S. and some other countries might be implementing fixed UIDs. However, if they are not intending to implement random UIDs, one might ask why not given such chips are apparently available. The above and other Q&As about the ePassport chip implementation were tabled in the Aust. Senate on 9 Feb 2006. Senate Hansard page containing the Q&As is here (permalink): http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/TranslateWIPILink.aspx?Folder=HANSARDS&… ite ria=DOC_DATE:2006-02-09%3BSEQ_NUM:167%3B While those Q&As don't state what type of chip it is, I understand it complies with ISO 14443 Type B (i.e. not Type A). That's what Sharp Corporation announced they were shipping to the Aust. Gov for epassport trials in late 2004 http://www.sle.sharp.co.uk/news/pressreleases/04035_epassports_Final.pdf and in very late Oct 2005, Bob Nash (Assistant Secretary, Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade) told me during a phone conversation (in response to a question) that the same chip is being used in the Aust. ePassports (that had commenced being issued to the general public a few days previously). Btw, for info of people not familiar with Aust. Senate procedures, the Q&As above are not of the type where a Minister is asked a question and expected to answer it immediately. The Aust. Senate has a procedure whereby any Senator can send written questions to a Minister and the Minister is (at least in theory) required to provide written answers within 30 days (which are then tabled in the Senate). The purpose is to enable Senators to ask detailed questions and give Ministers time, if necessary, to find out the answers from e.g. Departmental staff. Ministers do not always answer such questions. When they do, imo it's far more likely than not that the answers are factual. Regards Irene -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Irene Graham Executive Director - Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. (EFA) Web: <http://www.efa.org.au> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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Yet another Court of Appeals upholds 4th Amendment rights in
by Ethan Ackerman 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

email Greetings Dave, Today a very significant opinion was decided by the 6th Circuit (Warshak v. US, http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/07a0225p-06.pdf ) upholding 4th Amendment protections for emails. The 6th Circuit ruled, agreeing with an amicus brief filed by EFF, that "A [government] seizure of e-mails from an ISP, without either a warrant supported by probable cause, notice to the account holder to render the intrusion the functional equivalent of a subpoena, or a showing that the user maintained no expectation of privacy in the e-mail, amounts to" a 4th amendment violation. This case is doubly important because the government primarily argued that the 4th Amendment shouldn't matter, as it complied with most (but not all) of the relevant administrative subpoena statute, with its lesser standards of proof. Details: US statutes offer some privacy for emails, based on distinctions like 'sent' vs. 'in transit' vs. 'stored' vs. 'read or unread.' These categories, their standards of proof and the protections they offer, are hotly debated themselves - see a past debate on IP between the current Administration's Stewart Baker and professor Petwer Swire - http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200407/ msg00019.html Because the US has several statutes (the Wiretap Act, ECPA, etc.) that protect some emails and computer uses, most cases never have to address the 4th Amendment issue. The case can be decided just based on whether the statute was followed. A recent case, Councilman, may be familiar to readers as an example of a case that involved the intricacies of these statutes. But the issue has always been lurking as to whether or not there is additional 4th Amendment protection above and beyond the statutes - especially as amendments (like the Patriot Act) have pared back the protections or standards in these statutes. The court today signaled there clearly is independent 4th Amendment protection, and ruled that some portions of ECPA were constitutionally inadequate. Coverage on legal blogs has just started, I suspect there's more coming - http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/warshak_v_usa/ http://volokh.com/posts/1182181742.shtml http://howappealing.law.com/061807.html#026198 -Ethan ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[IP] Yet another Court of Appeals upholds 4th Amendment rights in email
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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[sfs-dev] ANNOUNCE: Patriot S/WAN 1.0 Released!
by Ken Bantoft 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi Folks, JuanJo Ciarlante and I are pleased to announce the release of Patriot S/WAN v1.0. What is this exactly? Read on... Those of you who've followed Super FreeS/WAN development will have noticed our current trend of supporting less and less secure ciphers, including the NULL cipher, and last month, Single DES. We've decided to take this one step futher, since there is alot of uncertainty these days with crypto export regulations for US Citizens. So we've forked Super FreeS/WAN and disabled the high grade ciphers. Thanks to a special grant from the US Government, JuanJo was able to take the time to write the ipsec_rot13 module, so we can finally support rot13 encryption for VPNs! This means the package can be freely exported out of the US with no restrictions, even to countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. You can download Patriot S/WAN from http://www.freeswan.ca/code/patriotswan or http://downloads.freeswan.ca/patriotswan today, and start building VPN's while still allowing the US Government to eavesdrop on all of your communications. Never worry about a court-ordered wiretap again! -- Ken Bantoft The Unoffical FreeS/WAN Site: ken(a)freeswan.ca http://www.freeswan.ca PGP Key: finger ken(a)bantoft.org The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. -- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Super FreeS/WAN development mailing list sfs-dev(a)lists.freeswan.ca http://lists.freeswan.ca/mailman/listinfo/sfs-dev Sponsored by Astaro - http://www.astaro.com --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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[Politech] Details of how Australian "e-passports" will work [priv]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Politech submission: Australian ePassports - Minister states random UID used Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:16:14 +1000 From: Irene Graham <execdir(a)efa.org.au> To: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> Declan Information about the implementation of chips in Australian ePassports has recently been provided by the Aust. Minister for Foreign Affairs in response to written questions asked in the Aust. Senate by Senator Natasha Stott Despoja (Aust. Democrats). As has been previously mentioned on Politech, e.g. http://www.politechbot.com/2005/11/02/replies-to-us/ one of the concerns is whether chips emit a random or fixed UID and whether in fact any chip manufacturers implement random UIDs. The Aust. Minister has stated that the chip in the Aust. ePassport emits a random UID and that the UID does not contain any data that might allow identification of the issuing authority (Aust. Gov) or that the chip is in an ePassport. Obviously that info only applies to the Aust. ePassport - the U.S. and some other countries might be implementing fixed UIDs. However, if they are not intending to implement random UIDs, one might ask why not given such chips are apparently available. The above and other Q&As about the ePassport chip implementation were tabled in the Aust. Senate on 9 Feb 2006. Senate Hansard page containing the Q&As is here (permalink): http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/TranslateWIPILink.aspx?Folder=HANSARDS&… ite ria=DOC_DATE:2006-02-09%3BSEQ_NUM:167%3B While those Q&As don't state what type of chip it is, I understand it complies with ISO 14443 Type B (i.e. not Type A). That's what Sharp Corporation announced they were shipping to the Aust. Gov for epassport trials in late 2004 http://www.sle.sharp.co.uk/news/pressreleases/04035_epassports_Final.pdf and in very late Oct 2005, Bob Nash (Assistant Secretary, Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade) told me during a phone conversation (in response to a question) that the same chip is being used in the Aust. ePassports (that had commenced being issued to the general public a few days previously). Btw, for info of people not familiar with Aust. Senate procedures, the Q&As above are not of the type where a Minister is asked a question and expected to answer it immediately. The Aust. Senate has a procedure whereby any Senator can send written questions to a Minister and the Minister is (at least in theory) required to provide written answers within 30 days (which are then tabled in the Senate). The purpose is to enable Senators to ask detailed questions and give Ministers time, if necessary, to find out the answers from e.g. Departmental staff. Ministers do not always answer such questions. When they do, imo it's far more likely than not that the answers are factual. Regards Irene -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Irene Graham Executive Director - Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. (EFA) Web: <http://www.efa.org.au> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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Yet another Court of Appeals upholds 4th Amendment rights in
by Ethan Ackerman 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

email Greetings Dave, Today a very significant opinion was decided by the 6th Circuit (Warshak v. US, http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/07a0225p-06.pdf ) upholding 4th Amendment protections for emails. The 6th Circuit ruled, agreeing with an amicus brief filed by EFF, that "A [government] seizure of e-mails from an ISP, without either a warrant supported by probable cause, notice to the account holder to render the intrusion the functional equivalent of a subpoena, or a showing that the user maintained no expectation of privacy in the e-mail, amounts to" a 4th amendment violation. This case is doubly important because the government primarily argued that the 4th Amendment shouldn't matter, as it complied with most (but not all) of the relevant administrative subpoena statute, with its lesser standards of proof. Details: US statutes offer some privacy for emails, based on distinctions like 'sent' vs. 'in transit' vs. 'stored' vs. 'read or unread.' These categories, their standards of proof and the protections they offer, are hotly debated themselves - see a past debate on IP between the current Administration's Stewart Baker and professor Petwer Swire - http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200407/ msg00019.html Because the US has several statutes (the Wiretap Act, ECPA, etc.) that protect some emails and computer uses, most cases never have to address the 4th Amendment issue. The case can be decided just based on whether the statute was followed. A recent case, Councilman, may be familiar to readers as an example of a case that involved the intricacies of these statutes. But the issue has always been lurking as to whether or not there is additional 4th Amendment protection above and beyond the statutes - especially as amendments (like the Patriot Act) have pared back the protections or standards in these statutes. The court today signaled there clearly is independent 4th Amendment protection, and ruled that some portions of ECPA were constitutionally inadequate. Coverage on legal blogs has just started, I suspect there's more coming - http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/warshak_v_usa/ http://volokh.com/posts/1182181742.shtml http://howappealing.law.com/061807.html#026198 -Ethan ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[IP] Yet another Court of Appeals upholds 4th Amendment rights in email
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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<nettime> Rebirth of Guilds
by Ben Moretti 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

[the actual report is well worth reading. i have held privately that the mutual benefit societies and groups that played an important role in south australia in the 19th century arose due to the inherent weakness of the state in the colony, and that these groups would re-arise due to the same reasons. i know adecdotally that there is a long line of these stretching back -- freemasons, mechanics institutes, mutual benefit funds, etc -- so it only seems logical as we move into a weak state mode of history, it would happen again. b.] http://mitsloan.mit.edu/news/releases/2000/guilds.html Rebirth of guilds-MIT Sloan researchers see a shift in workers' organizations CAMBRIDGE, Mass., September 1, 2000 -- Two researchers from the MIT Sloan School of Management predict that over the next decade or so, there will be a rise in guild-type organizations to serve the needs of workers who no longer have traditional jobs. "For workers to enjoy fully the opportunities this new economy presents, they will require institutions to help blunt the greater risks they face," said MIT Sloan Professor Thomas Malone, who co-authored the working paper along with Sloan Research Associate Robert Laubacher. Guilds could provide to contractors and temporary and part-time workers the financial security, benefits, career education, and social opportunities that traditionally were provided by long-term employers. "We are in a significant period of transition in how work is organized," said Malone. "The choices we make now will create the world in which our children and their children will live." Over one-quarter of American workers currently do not hold traditional, full-time jobs, but instead work as independent contractors or as part-time or temporary employees. Some of these people want full-time jobs but can't get them; others, many of them working parents, have voluntarily chosen the freedom and flexibility of working independently. Researchers Malone and Robert Laubacher, believe that the most mobile of these flexible workers, e-lancers-electronically connected free-lancers-will grow in number, as the new economy becomes more dynamic, and teams of individuals come together for projects and then dissolve when the work is completed. The guild approach doesn't rely exclusively on the "usual suspects"-employers and government-to provide traditional job benefits and support. Instead, it relies on a rich ecology of other organizations to look after the needs of mobile workers, as they move from assignment to assignment. "This guild model is a description of what we already see beginning to happen, a prediction what we think will become more common, and a recommendation for policy makers, employers, and others to consider," said Malone. "Nascent forms of these guilds have already begun to appear," said Laubacher. "For example, Working Today, a non-profit in New York, provides low cost health insurance and other services to freelance technology workers in Silicon Alley. These organizations are coming in to fill the gap." In addition, existing groups such as professional societies, unions, community organizations or temporary staffing firms could expand their offerings to meet more of the needs of their members. Another added benefit of guilds in this decentralized economy, "Guild membership might provide the sense of identity that many of us get from positions in large organizations," said Laubacher. This research is an outgrowth of the MIT initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century which explored the new forms of companies and work settings as we move into this new century. The research is also based on findings from surveys and interviews conducted by CDI, a Philadelphia-based Management Recruiting firm, published in "CDI at Work: 21st Century Thinking." For a copy of the complete Malone/Laubacher working paper, go to: http://ccs.mit.edu/21c/21cwpmain.html and click on working paper #033. For nearly a half-century, the MIT Sloan School of Management, based in Cambridge, Mass., has been one of the world's leading academic sources of innovation in management theory and practice. With students from more than 60 countries, it develops effective, innovative, and principled leaders who advance the global economy. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo(a)bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)bbs.thing.net --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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