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SF Chronicle on Sen. Dianne Feinstein: "Feinstein Offline"
by Declan McCullagh 22 Feb '98

22 Feb '98

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:52:39 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: SF Chronicle on Sen. Dianne Feinstein: "Feinstein Offline" **** Feinstein Offline Her law-and-order stance irks tech industry Jon Swartz, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, February 19, 1998 URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/02/1… Despite Silicon Valley's growing economic and political clout, a chorus of high-tech executives have complained that U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein is unresponsive and, at times, hostile to their interests -- especially when it comes to the Internet. ``She is in the forefront of senators voting against the Internet,'' said Jerry Berman, executive director of the liberal Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, D.C. ``On a scale of 1 to 10, in terms of being on the side of Internet freedom, she gets a 1.'' Feinstein voted in favor of bills banning the distribution of bomb-making instructions, pornography and personal information over the Internet. She wants to impose fines and jail terms for people who gamble online. She supports strict export controls on encrypted software. And she has joined the move to ban laptop computers on the Senate floor. ``Isn't it ironic that the senator from California and the former mayor of San Francisco appears to be running against the Internet?'' said Stanton McCandlish, program director at The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil libertarian organization in San Francisco. David Sobel, legal counsel at the nonpartisan Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., said Feinstein is ``perceived to be less supportive of the Internet and the computer industry than one would expect.'' Feinstein -- a rumored vice presidential candidate in 2000 -- dismisses the criticism as ``nonsense'' and says her record is ``replete'' with technology-friendly legisla tion in securities litigation reform, R&D tax credits and education. In September 1996, Feinstein was one of the few Democrats to override President Clinton's veto of the securities-litigation reform legislation that the high-tech industry desperately wanted. She also pushed hard for the permanent extension of R&D tax credits in both the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and the 1996 Small Business Job Protection Act. Both bills were passed into law. But Feinstein's strong law enforcement stance works ``to the detriment'' of the Internet, Sobel said. ``She accepts, without question, law enforcement's claims about the dangers of the Internet.'' In Feinstein's view, ``This whole cyberspace is moving so fast that one has to be sure that kids are protected,'' she said. ``I'm concerned when kids blow themselves up by building bombs (they learned to make) over the Internet, when Social Security card numbers are made available online and when pedophiles punch up children's names. There is a philosophy that anything goes. ``I recognize the primacy of the First Amendment,'' she added. ``But privacy goes two ways. I think prudent laws to protect children may well be necessary. There should be a balance.'' Feinstein's most controversial stand is on encryption, the technology that allows digital information to be scrambled and sent securely over the Internet. Strong encryption is used within the United States to protect the transmission of credit-card numbers, trade secrets and other confidential information. But national security laws stretching back to the Cold War prohibit the export of software with strong encryption. Law enforcement officials want to be able to crack the code in case it's used by terrorists, drug traffickers, economic saboteurs or others plotting against the United States. High-tech companies say they want to be able to export software with strong encryption because they're losing billions of dollars in potential sales to foreign competitors who aren't subject to the same restrictions. A bill called the Security and Freedom Through Encryption (SAFE) Act, co-sponsored by Representative Anna Eshoo, D-Atherton, would relax export controls. But a rival bill co-written by Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Bob Kerry, D- Neb., titled the Secure Public Network Act would go the other way and impose controls on use of encrypted software domestically. Feinstein favors the latter bill but doesn't think it goes far enough. She thinks anyone who uses encrypted software should make a key to unlock their code available to law enforcement authorities. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on encrypted software last fall, Feinstein said that nothing short of mandatory domestic control of encrypted software would be acceptable. She added that no high-tech CEO had contacted her about the issue. Feinstein's comments caused a furor. A January 15 letter from 26 high-tech executives sent exclusively to Feinstein stated: ``We were disappointed by your comments. . .implying that California companies are ambivalent regarding your position on encryption policy. ``California companies and industries nationwide are united in opposition to domestic and export controls,'' the letter stated. It closed with the names of chief executives from Netscape Communications, America Online, Pacific Bell, 3Com, Sun Microsystems, Autodesk, Adobe Systems, RSA Data Security and others. ``I was nothing short of shocked,'' said RSA Data Security CEO Jim Bidzos. ``For someone to take such an extreme position on such an important issue without touching base with her constituency is unbelievable.'' Explaining her position in an interview, Feinstein said, ``When a particular situation involves public safety, there should be some means for recovery of encrypted information by law enforcement that falls within the strict confines of due process of law. ``If industry can come up with a way to provide the same law enforcement access without a mandatory key-recovery system, I would support it,'' she said. [...]

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Re: Some children are rabid and need to be put down
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 22 Feb '98

22 Feb '98

Tim May is spot on about the feral kid. Yet, battering the clone bruises the produce and harms sales. Kids are over-coddled species and that's the cause of the rise in black market of kiddie porn, kidnapping, rape, incest and murder, what with crazed adults (parents and wannabes) wanting to develop for home domination hyper-valued Benets, since they're worth more on the market as icons than as needy brats begging for affection and attention, and interfering with dad and mom getting on with maximum self-indulgence. And there's way too many kids, anyhow, the market's saturated. Especially those over the age of adorable cuddling and grandma gaga for adverts. Harvest all over the age of two, say, when they become unruly, as the Brit pedophagist proposed for the Irish surplus to solve the famine. Shut the day cares, schools, colleges, boot camps for homicidals. Unplug the Net for those under 30, they're more socially useful as protein, as anciently preached by St. Peter's Eunuchs. Eat the kids, doom the race. Evolution stops with the me-gen. The technical solution to the after-me-nada agribusiness is set out in Tim's aggra-sig: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^3,021,377 | black markets, collapse of governments.

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Digital copy prot3ction (fwd)
by Jim Choate 22 Feb '98

22 Feb '98

Forwarded message: > Subject: Digital copy prot3ction > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:16:49 -0600 (CST) > From: ichudov(a)algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) > I can hardly believe that any of these schemes are undefeatable. > > As soon as the CPU starts talking to a video and sound board, > this whole thing becomes easily breakable. All one needs to do is > to capture the signals that go to these boards and re-record them. > > Right? > The proposed technology would have no effect on televisions, video > cassette recorders or computers already in use, the paper said. I suspect that this part is the key, what they will propose is some mechanism to alter the chipsets from the one currently implimented. Expect them to impliment something similar to the DAT tape systems where the machine won't execute a copy function if it sees the correct signal. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | When a man assumes a public trust, he should | | consider himself public property. | | | | Thomas Jefferson | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Digital copy prot3ction
by ichudov＠Algebra.COM 22 Feb '98

22 Feb '98

I can hardly believe that any of these schemes are undefeatable. As soon as the CPU starts talking to a video and sound board, this whole thing becomes easily breakable. All one needs to do is to capture the signals that go to these boards and re-record them. Right? ====================================================================== Thursday February 19, 3:58 am Eastern Time Firms said to agree on digital anti-piracy system LOS ANGELES, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Five giants of the computer and electronics industries have agreed on technology designed to protect Hollywood's most valuable products from being illegally copied, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The Los Angeles Times said Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news; 6758.T), Intel Corp(INTC - news), Matsushita Electric Industrial Co (MSES.KL), Toshiba Corp (6502.T) and Hitachi Ltd (NYSE:HIT - news; 6501.T) were expected to announce later on Thursday a proposal to deploy encryption technology that will prevent people from making illicit copies of copyright digital content. The deal could be a breakthrough for the entertainment industry, which has been wary of the ease with which digitally distributed material can be endlessly copied without any degradation in quality, the newspaper said. ``If somebody tries to violate a copyright, it won't work,'' the newspaper quoted Mike Aymar, vice president of consumer products at Intel, as saying. ``The goal is that you'll see products on the marketplace that support this by the end of the year,'' Aymar said. The proposed technology would have no effect on televisions, video cassette recorders or computers already in use, the paper said. It said the agreement was presented on Wednesday in Burbank, California, to the Copy Protection Technical Working Group, a committee that is led by major movie studios and includes representatives of the music, computer, software and electronics industries.

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Re: Is spam really a problem?
by Information Security 22 Feb '98

22 Feb '98

> From sunder(a)brainlink.com Wed Feb 18 15:58:46 1998 > > Anonymous wrote: > > > > I see discussion of spam here and everywhere on > > the net. But who finds it a *real* problem, and > > why? Why are you asking the cypherpunks list? > There are nice technical solutions to this. If sendmail didn't transport > things unauthenticated it could be done, but at a cost in CPU cycles on mail > servers: > > Have every sendmail server use a PK scheme to talk to every other > server and authenticate the connection. Have every sendmail server accept > mail only from those whose key is verified. Nonsense. We (NANA) already know where spam comes from, and when we complain about it, they are terminated. # Date: Tue, 10 Feb PST 16:13:26 -0800 # Message-Id: <199802110013.QAA23854(a)blaze.corp.netcom.com> # Subject: Re: Commercial spam complaint # From: abuse(a)netcom.com (NETCOM Policy Management) # # Thank you for your report. This user's account has been terminated for # violations of NETCOM's Acceptable Use Guidelines. PK authentication would change nothing. Show a single spam with a forged IP address. PK authentication would only lead us down the road of everyone being tattooed with barcodes of our own making - and incredibly dumb idea. ---guy It would be like requiring a smart card for Internet access.

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Last Chance ...less than 149 copies left! Plus FREE Bonus.
by Anonymous 22 Feb '98

22 Feb '98

You spammed to the Cypherpunks list: >Dear Fred, > >The folks who produce The 1998 ULTIMATE FUTURES TRADING GUIDE, just >informed me that they have less than 149 copies available for sale > >Check it out at: http://www.marketdepot.com/products/utg/ > >See what the GUIDE has to say about El Nino ... and what effect it will >have on the economy and the markets and ultimately your money. Go fuck yourself, preferably up the ass with a large metal hook.

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Re: PLO censoring pro-Iraqi sentiments
by Eric J. Tune 22 Feb '98

22 Feb '98

>X-Sender: tcmay(a)mail.got.net >Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:03:26 -0800 >To: Eric Cordian <emc(a)wire.insync.net>, cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> >Subject: Re: PLO censoring pro-Iraqi sentiments >Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> >X-Loop: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > [SHIT REMOVED] >This is why I cheered to see the U.S. gets its tail kicked in Somalia and >have to retreat in disgrace. Alas, the U.S. planners just looked for >another war, one we could "win," and they found a bombed out Bosnia to be >the perfect place to "restore our dignity." > >Amerika the Fascist. > >--Tim May > > You know Tim, I respect most of what you write, and I respect you in that you have your own free will and opinions and the right to express them, but what you have forgotten in your anarchistic ravings is that PEOPLE DIED IN SOMALIA, including a personal friend of mine. They were all somebody's son, brother, and friend. These soldiers went where they were ordered to go, as befits a soldier, and tried to do the job they were given and accomplish the mission, and for that EVERY ONE OF THEM DESERVES Y O U R RESPECT. I am quite sure the vast majority of them thought it was patently stupid to go to Somalia in the first place, but a soldier follows orders, legal ones, and tries to get the job done regardless of personal feelings. The next time you "cheer to see the U.S. gets its tail kicked", why don't you think about the American troops who lost their lives or were maimed, or who were doing something they may have been personally and morally against, but they chose to be professional soldiers, and instead of displaying cowardice, they tried to do what was asked of them. Think of the innocent civilians who inevitably die in the conflicts started by the megalomaniacs like Saddam Hussein. If you want to blame someone, and you bellow endlessly in every letter you write about blaming someone, why don't you blame the politicians who start the wars, who run the countries and step all over their own people, instead of the people who are made to do the dirty work? Your "cheering" was a blatant slap in the face to anyone who has ever served in uniform, and my only hope is that you will think about who should really deserve your ire next time before you so recklessly blurt it out. A lot of people like what you have to say most of the time, including me, but with the right to our freedom of speech comes a responsibility to speak wisely, which is something we could all strive to be better at, don't you think? Eric Tune

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MicroGorilla Postpones Rocket-Launch Plans Until..."likely
by nobody＠neva.org 06 Aug '97

06 Aug '97

sometime next year." >Anonymous wrote: > > The "Not-News Gorilla NutWork" was rocket-launched in the Mohave Desert > > early yesterday morning by a rag-tag bunch of paramilitarist computer > > gurus who unveiled an InterNet Bill of Bytes that included the words, > > "MicroSoft shall make no laws..." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > Microsoft Corp. has tabled plans to include new technology in its > Internet Explorer 4.0 browser that would have made "news" oriented > sites exempt from content rating standards promoted for use on the > Internet. >Anonymous wrote: > > Angered by a self-appointed council of computer industry magnates who > > have announced their intention to seize fascist control of the quickly > > burgeoning Information Highway by controlling the definition of all > > information, the rebels set up a shooting range which contained a wide > > variety of targets ranging from copies of the Wall Street Journal to > > life-sized cardboard cut-outs of a hooded figure referred to only as, > > "a billionaire to be named later." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > RSAC President C. Dianne Martin said Microsoft is running out of time > to implement the separate designation for news sites before the launch > of the 4.0 version of Explorer later this year. >Anonymous wrote: > > "We have decided on two classes of ratings." explained a tassel- > > haired young woman as she slid shells into a Winchester Defender > > sitting on her lap. "On..." she said, lifting the shotgun with one > > hand, then liberating the hooded head from a nearby cardboard cut-out, > > before turning back to say, with a Cheshire grin, "...and off." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > However, the company > plans to include the news designation in the 5.0 version of Explorer > when it is made available..."likely sometime next year." There wasn't much doubt that 'Nobody' was pointing out to one and all that the Internet Content Coalition was under siege, and that the opening salvo by 'Anonymous' had brought the largest corporation in history to its knees, in surrender. A bold claim, but would this declaration of war in the battle of the giants to seize control of the official reigns of news and information on the InterNet be backed up in the end, by across the board results? A Player To Be Named Later pored over a FreeAmerica report on the resurrection of the Inslaw ghosts in the mid-1990's. Federal Corruption INSLAW Copyright FreeAmerica and Harry V. Martin, 1995 Congressman Jack Brooks of Texas has opened a new investigation into the INSLAW case. Brooks is investigating allegations that Justice Department officials, including Meese, conspired to force INSLAW into bankruptcy in order to deliver the firm's software to a rival company. The rival firm, according to court records and law enforcement officials, was headed by Earl W. Brian, a former Cabinet officer under then California Governor Ronald Reagan and a longtime friend of several high-ranking Republican officials. [Earl W. Brian! Who had seized control of United Press International (UPI) in a deal every bit as shady as the Inslaw affair] On March 21, 1992, [Michael] Riconoscuito stated in an affidavit to the Court and Congress, and before he was arrested, the following: During the 1980s he served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the Cabazon Band of Indians of Indio, California. The joint venture was located on the Cabazon reservation. [Near the Salton Sea, a long-time haunt of the Author, who brought a strange variety of computer gurus to the area, purportedly for Corvina fishing, but what was the real story about their travels there?] The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture sought to develop and/or manufacture certain materials that are used in military and national security operations, including night vision goggles, machine guns, fuel- air explosives, and biological and chemical warfare weapons. The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture was intended to support the needs of a number of FOREIGN governments and forces, including forces and governments in Central America and the Middle East. The Contras in Nicaragua represented one of the most important priorities for the joint venture. The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture maintained close liaison with 'certain elements' of the United States Government, including representatives of intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies. Among the frequent visitors to the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture were Peter Videnieks of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and a close associate of Videnieks by the name of Earl W. Brian. Brian is a private businessman who lives in Maryland and who has maintained close business ties with the U.S. intelligence community for many years. The purpose of the PROMIS software modification that I made in 1983 and 1984 was to support a plan for the implementation of PROMIS in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. Earl W. Brian was spearheading the plan for this worldwide use of the PROMIS computer software. Some of the modifications that I made were specifically designed to facilitate the implementation of PROMIS within two agencies of the Government of Canada: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). Earl W. Brian would check with me from time to time to make certain that the work would be completed in time to satisfy the schedule for the RCMP and CSIS implementations of PROMIS. [The RCMP and CSISthe same entities that the Author had shared a Russian language class with in Regina, Saskatchewan, just before the Moscow Olympics. Who had he encountered in that group who would later be instrumental in acquiring the PROMIS software for the Canadians?] The propriety version of PROMIS, as modified by me, was, in fact implemented in both the RCMP and the CSIS in Canada. It was my understanding that Earl W. Brian had sold this version of PROMIS to the Government of Canada. A Player To Be Named Later suddenly remembered the email to the CypherPunks mailing list and the corporate headquarters of the Internet Content Coalition that had been forwarded from the LMBoyd Website, which was known to be a forum for the Circle of Eunuchs to send veiled messages to set the stage for their more pointed attacks on the Dark Forces. It was an email that was sent out when the dark specter of the Internet Content Coalition first began to flex their muscles.

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MicroGorilla Postpones Rocket-Launch Plans Until..."likely
by nobody＠neva.org 06 Aug '97

06 Aug '97

sometime next year." >Anonymous wrote: > > The "Not-News Gorilla NutWork" was rocket-launched in the Mohave Desert > > early yesterday morning by a rag-tag bunch of paramilitarist computer > > gurus who unveiled an InterNet Bill of Bytes that included the words, > > "MicroSoft shall make no laws..." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > Microsoft Corp. has tabled plans to include new technology in its > Internet Explorer 4.0 browser that would have made "news" oriented > sites exempt from content rating standards promoted for use on the > Internet. >Anonymous wrote: > > Angered by a self-appointed council of computer industry magnates who > > have announced their intention to seize fascist control of the quickly > > burgeoning Information Highway by controlling the definition of all > > information, the rebels set up a shooting range which contained a wide > > variety of targets ranging from copies of the Wall Street Journal to > > life-sized cardboard cut-outs of a hooded figure referred to only as, > > "a billionaire to be named later." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > RSAC President C. Dianne Martin said Microsoft is running out of time > to implement the separate designation for news sites before the launch > of the 4.0 version of Explorer later this year. >Anonymous wrote: > > "We have decided on two classes of ratings." explained a tassel- > > haired young woman as she slid shells into a Winchester Defender > > sitting on her lap. "On..." she said, lifting the shotgun with one > > hand, then liberating the hooded head from a nearby cardboard cut-out, > > before turning back to say, with a Cheshire grin, "...and off." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > However, the company > plans to include the news designation in the 5.0 version of Explorer > when it is made available..."likely sometime next year." There wasn't much doubt that 'Nobody' was pointing out to one and all that the Internet Content Coalition was under siege, and that the opening salvo by 'Anonymous' had brought the largest corporation in history to its knees, in surrender. A bold claim, but would this declaration of war in the battle of the giants to seize control of the official reigns of news and information on the InterNet be backed up in the end, by across the board results? A Player To Be Named Later pored over a FreeAmerica report on the resurrection of the Inslaw ghosts in the mid-1990's. Federal Corruption INSLAW Copyright FreeAmerica and Harry V. Martin, 1995 Congressman Jack Brooks of Texas has opened a new investigation into the INSLAW case. Brooks is investigating allegations that Justice Department officials, including Meese, conspired to force INSLAW into bankruptcy in order to deliver the firm's software to a rival company. The rival firm, according to court records and law enforcement officials, was headed by Earl W. Brian, a former Cabinet officer under then California Governor Ronald Reagan and a longtime friend of several high-ranking Republican officials. [Earl W. Brian! Who had seized control of United Press International (UPI) in a deal every bit as shady as the Inslaw affair] On March 21, 1992, [Michael] Riconoscuito stated in an affidavit to the Court and Congress, and before he was arrested, the following: During the 1980s he served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the Cabazon Band of Indians of Indio, California. The joint venture was located on the Cabazon reservation. [Near the Salton Sea, a long-time haunt of the Author, who brought a strange variety of computer gurus to the area, purportedly for Corvina fishing, but what was the real story about their travels there?] The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture sought to develop and/or manufacture certain materials that are used in military and national security operations, including night vision goggles, machine guns, fuel- air explosives, and biological and chemical warfare weapons. The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture was intended to support the needs of a number of FOREIGN governments and forces, including forces and governments in Central America and the Middle East. The Contras in Nicaragua represented one of the most important priorities for the joint venture. The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture maintained close liaison with 'certain elements' of the United States Government, including representatives of intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies. Among the frequent visitors to the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture were Peter Videnieks of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and a close associate of Videnieks by the name of Earl W. Brian. Brian is a private businessman who lives in Maryland and who has maintained close business ties with the U.S. intelligence community for many years. The purpose of the PROMIS software modification that I made in 1983 and 1984 was to support a plan for the implementation of PROMIS in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. Earl W. Brian was spearheading the plan for this worldwide use of the PROMIS computer software. Some of the modifications that I made were specifically designed to facilitate the implementation of PROMIS within two agencies of the Government of Canada: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). Earl W. Brian would check with me from time to time to make certain that the work would be completed in time to satisfy the schedule for the RCMP and CSIS implementations of PROMIS. [The RCMP and CSISthe same entities that the Author had shared a Russian language class with in Regina, Saskatchewan, just before the Moscow Olympics. Who had he encountered in that group who would later be instrumental in acquiring the PROMIS software for the Canadians?] The propriety version of PROMIS, as modified by me, was, in fact implemented in both the RCMP and the CSIS in Canada. It was my understanding that Earl W. Brian had sold this version of PROMIS to the Government of Canada. A Player To Be Named Later suddenly remembered the email to the CypherPunks mailing list and the corporate headquarters of the Internet Content Coalition that had been forwarded from the LMBoyd Website, which was known to be a forum for the Circle of Eunuchs to send veiled messages to set the stage for their more pointed attacks on the Dark Forces. It was an email that was sent out when the dark specter of the Internet Content Coalition first began to flex their muscles.

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MicroGorilla Postpones Rocket-Launch Plans Until..."likely
by nobody＠neva.org 06 Aug '97

06 Aug '97

sometime next year." >Anonymous wrote: > > The "Not-News Gorilla NutWork" was rocket-launched in the Mohave Desert > > early yesterday morning by a rag-tag bunch of paramilitarist computer > > gurus who unveiled an InterNet Bill of Bytes that included the words, > > "MicroSoft shall make no laws..." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > Microsoft Corp. has tabled plans to include new technology in its > Internet Explorer 4.0 browser that would have made "news" oriented > sites exempt from content rating standards promoted for use on the > Internet. >Anonymous wrote: > > Angered by a self-appointed council of computer industry magnates who > > have announced their intention to seize fascist control of the quickly > > burgeoning Information Highway by controlling the definition of all > > information, the rebels set up a shooting range which contained a wide > > variety of targets ranging from copies of the Wall Street Journal to > > life-sized cardboard cut-outs of a hooded figure referred to only as, > > "a billionaire to be named later." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > RSAC President C. Dianne Martin said Microsoft is running out of time > to implement the separate designation for news sites before the launch > of the 4.0 version of Explorer later this year. >Anonymous wrote: > > "We have decided on two classes of ratings." explained a tassel- > > haired young woman as she slid shells into a Winchester Defender > > sitting on her lap. "On..." she said, lifting the shotgun with one > > hand, then liberating the hooded head from a nearby cardboard cut-out, > > before turning back to say, with a Cheshire grin, "...and off." Steven Vonder Haar wrote, the very next day: > However, the company > plans to include the news designation in the 5.0 version of Explorer > when it is made available..."likely sometime next year." There wasn't much doubt that 'Nobody' was pointing out to one and all that the Internet Content Coalition was under siege, and that the opening salvo by 'Anonymous' had brought the largest corporation in history to its knees, in surrender. A bold claim, but would this declaration of war in the battle of the giants to seize control of the official reigns of news and information on the InterNet be backed up in the end, by across the board results? A Player To Be Named Later pored over a FreeAmerica report on the resurrection of the Inslaw ghosts in the mid-1990's. Federal Corruption INSLAW Copyright FreeAmerica and Harry V. Martin, 1995 Congressman Jack Brooks of Texas has opened a new investigation into the INSLAW case. Brooks is investigating allegations that Justice Department officials, including Meese, conspired to force INSLAW into bankruptcy in order to deliver the firm's software to a rival company. The rival firm, according to court records and law enforcement officials, was headed by Earl W. Brian, a former Cabinet officer under then California Governor Ronald Reagan and a longtime friend of several high-ranking Republican officials. [Earl W. Brian! Who had seized control of United Press International (UPI) in a deal every bit as shady as the Inslaw affair] On March 21, 1992, [Michael] Riconoscuito stated in an affidavit to the Court and Congress, and before he was arrested, the following: During the 1980s he served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the Cabazon Band of Indians of Indio, California. The joint venture was located on the Cabazon reservation. [Near the Salton Sea, a long-time haunt of the Author, who brought a strange variety of computer gurus to the area, purportedly for Corvina fishing, but what was the real story about their travels there?] The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture sought to develop and/or manufacture certain materials that are used in military and national security operations, including night vision goggles, machine guns, fuel- air explosives, and biological and chemical warfare weapons. The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture was intended to support the needs of a number of FOREIGN governments and forces, including forces and governments in Central America and the Middle East. The Contras in Nicaragua represented one of the most important priorities for the joint venture. The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture maintained close liaison with 'certain elements' of the United States Government, including representatives of intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies. Among the frequent visitors to the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture were Peter Videnieks of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and a close associate of Videnieks by the name of Earl W. Brian. Brian is a private businessman who lives in Maryland and who has maintained close business ties with the U.S. intelligence community for many years. The purpose of the PROMIS software modification that I made in 1983 and 1984 was to support a plan for the implementation of PROMIS in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. Earl W. Brian was spearheading the plan for this worldwide use of the PROMIS computer software. Some of the modifications that I made were specifically designed to facilitate the implementation of PROMIS within two agencies of the Government of Canada: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). Earl W. Brian would check with me from time to time to make certain that the work would be completed in time to satisfy the schedule for the RCMP and CSIS implementations of PROMIS. [The RCMP and CSISthe same entities that the Author had shared a Russian language class with in Regina, Saskatchewan, just before the Moscow Olympics. Who had he encountered in that group who would later be instrumental in acquiring the PROMIS software for the Canadians?] The propriety version of PROMIS, as modified by me, was, in fact implemented in both the RCMP and the CSIS in Canada. It was my understanding that Earl W. Brian had sold this version of PROMIS to the Government of Canada. A Player To Be Named Later suddenly remembered the email to the CypherPunks mailing list and the corporate headquarters of the Internet Content Coalition that had been forwarded from the LMBoyd Website, which was known to be a forum for the Circle of Eunuchs to send veiled messages to set the stage for their more pointed attacks on the Dark Forces. It was an email that was sent out when the dark specter of the Internet Content Coalition first began to flex their muscles.

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