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Re: USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt
by Major Variola (ret) 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

At 08:28 AM 7/13/04 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Bumazhkas? I thought I was pretty familiar with most weapons of the world, >but not Bumazhkas. What calibre are they? I've always liked those CZ Model 52 >pistols and Model 32 subguns in .30Mauser. Loaded hot with a teflon coated >bullet they should punch thru armor well. I have a doubt about polytetrafluoroethylene, but I have no experience. I do know that tungsten is sold on eBay, any diamond bit should lathe it, and its nearly equal to DU (modulo how DU is free to DoD), should you be into reloading.

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Shrub flips the bird at kid
by J.A. Terranson 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

http://www.livejournal.com/users/jiveturky/185733.html After waiting around for about 45 minutes, the motorcade passed by us again. A few police cars, followed by a van or two, drove by. Then, a Bush/Cheney bus passed, followed by a second one going slower. At the front of this second bus was The W himself, waving cheerily at his supporters on the other side of the highway. Adam, Brendan, and I rose our banner (the More Trees, Less Bush one) and he turned to wave to our side of the road. His smile faded, and he raised his left arm in our direction. And then, George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States of America, extended his middle finger. Read that last sentence again. I got flipped off by George W. Bush. A ponytailed man standing next to us confirmed the event, saying, "I do believe the President of the U.S. just gave you boys the finger." We laughed probably for the next half hour, and promptly told everyone we knew. Brendan actually snapped a picture of Bushy in action, but the glare and the tint of the bus windows make it difficult to see him at all. Nonetheless, it was the best possible reaction. We pissed George W. Bush off. We are true patriots.

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Re: USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt
by Nostra2004＠SAFe-mail.net 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

>At 05:22 PM 7/9/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >>On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Steve Schear wrote: >> Some months back I discussed a procedural methodology where patrons could find >> out if their records hand been accessed in a way that circumvented court >> orders. I was told that it might work but that frustrated prosecutors might >> press charges of conspiracy before the fact to evade lawful orders that >> 'might' be issued, even if the defendant had no reasonable expectation that >> this might occur. >But we have a psychological mechanism here; many people tend to be "tough" when not under direct threat. Then they implement the mechanism. Then years flow by. Then the prosecutors come. But by then it is too late to cooperate. They are doomed (though that depends largely on the available lawyers), but it can save the ones they were protecting. The mechanism Steve suggested probably needs to be applied before you ever see a court order. >It seems that, by the prosecutor logic, just about any comsec improvement you implemented may be viewed as a conspiracy, including but not limited to secure email. >I am not happy to say this, but can we ever hope for designing any kind of secure infrastructure without some nodes having to win the martyr lottery? Actually, frequent prosecutions could work to the advantage of a select few who choose to become martyrs. Since it would make it much more likely supplicants would be called upon. >....speaking about martyrs... I am just watching a TV document about cults. Maybe we could piggyback on religion and use some kinks within Christian doctrine, selected for having wide user base within Western civilization? Eg, finding a believable and theologically coherent explanation how operating a Darknet node helps undermining the reign of Satan (a voice suggests me that the Book of Prophecies, or how that horsemen thing is called, could contain enough of material to build on)? That could provide a decent amount of node ops using existing infrastructure of likely-minded religious organizations. Faith is a big motivation for undertaking risk, and while Westerners currently tend to be less radical than Middle-Easterners, this kind of mission is far from suicidal. I posted a few months back offering an alternative to religion in recruitment: the terminally ill. Nostra

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Orwell as optimist
by Major Variola (ret) 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

At 10:24 PM 7/10/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Bill Stewart wrote: > >> But Osama bin Laden and George Dubya _were_ good buddies, weren't they? > >*Were*??? Don't you mean *are*? Hell, it's Osama that keeps the Angry >Midget in power... Hey, no offense to short people. Just *mental* midgets. We have always been at war with Oceania bin Laden... You're either with us, or against us. Vote Kerry, as the antiBush, no matter how sleazy you feel in the AM.

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zombie patriots
by Major Variola (ret) 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

At 02:04 AM 7/10/04 -0400, Nostra2004(a)SAFe-mail.net wrote: > >I posted a few months back offering an alternative to religion in recruitment: the terminally ill. Yes, that remains valid. As does anonymous broadcasting, eg usenet stego. The essential problem for us sleeper cells is to be able to access the alt.port DB without 1. this being anomolous 2. the posted files being detectable. There's a nordic fellow, Nichols something or other, who has looked for stego'd files in high-bandwidth places. He has not found a babypicture hidden in a diagram of the 1945 plane-into-skyscraper picture I have posted at an alt port with even the tool & passhprase issued. Just FYI. I haven't tried posting a double-message to eBay yet, not really having anyone to communicate with, but it would be trivial. Data -> compress -> encrypt -> encode All your faxes are belong to us. "I read your email" is not just a bumper sticker in Maryland.

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Re: Final stage
by Major Variola (ret) 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

At 12:25 AM 7/9/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >> > > A few years ago it was requests on how to make bombs, now it's this shit. >> > >> > The "UBL is GW" message sounded provocateurish, too. > >But Osama bin Laden and George Dubya _were_ good buddies, weren't they? Sure, along with that Nicaraguan dude. The tradecraft term is "blowback", to the rest of us, "feedback". Have a nice day, MV (ret)

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Re: [IP] Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight
by Major Variola (ret) 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

At 09:03 AM 7/9/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >Looking for nitrogen doesn't cover all explosives, but most of them. Yes. That Jamaican dude had TATP, triacetyl tri peroxide if IIRC, in his shoe. But the dingbat tried to light a shoelace on a non-smoking flight. Peroxides need contain zero nitrogen. That's the thing ---you can use all the advanced nukechem you want, as col as it is, you can't distinguish what you need to. Fuck the TSA. Avoid Athens, baby.

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Final stage
by Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

Praise Allah! The spires of the West will soon come crashing down! Our Brother wishes for us to meet at the previously discussed southeastern roadhouse on August 1st, in preparation for the operations scheduled for August 6th and 9th. Alternative targets have been chosen. Contact Jibril if you have not heard of the changes since the last meeting. The infidels have machines that detect the biologicals, so make sure the containers are sealed and scrubbed as discussed. Leave excess semtex behind. The more we transport, the more likely the infidels are to detect us. We have received more funding and supplies from our brothers in Saudi Arabia and Syria. Be prepared for another operation before January. Praise Allah! May the blood of the infidels turn the oceans red!

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USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)
by Eugen Leitl 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

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Re: [IP] Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight
by Major Variola (ret) 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

At 01:08 PM 7/8/04 -0400, Sunder wrote: >I recently visited the Canadian side of Niagra falls. On the return entry >to the US customs, etc. meant driving through penns that look like toll >booths. But I noticed little sensors in pairs and large square sensors as >well. 1. I've seen adverts for linear sensors which image the bottoms of cars as they drive over. Sort of a scanner where the paper does the moving. Installed in the road. 2. There are companies developing sensors that bombard your car with neutrons (don't have to open the trunk), and detect the N from the temporary neutron-activated gamma emissions. 3. Obviously license plate OCR is trivial. 4. I've read papers on recognizing vehicles by their inductive signature as they drive over regular road sensors. This was to passively measure road speed for traffic control. The idea is that a VW Beetle has a different inductance vs. time than a Ford-250 or an 18 wheeler. You correlate between roadloops at known distances apart and infer road speed. 5. One could call terahertz "hard RF" in same way that hard x-rays bleed into soft gammas. But calling anything "hard" implies danger, and we mustn't scare the proles. Perhaps soft IR is better. Whatever, its still pornography if the resolution is high enough.

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