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Fwd: Anne McLellan's voters reject gun registration...
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >Received: from bernie.compusmart.ab.ca (bernie.compusmart.ab.ca [199.185.131.34]) > by cti13.citenet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA22703 > for <jf_avon(a)citenet.net>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:02:25 -0500 (EST) >Received: from remote322.compusmart.ab.ca ([206.75.84.147]:1035 "EHLO compusmart.ab.ca") by mail.compusmart.ab.ca with ESMTP id <409327-12752>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:52:54 -0700 >Message-ID: <3676A210.9C6687B8(a)compusmart.ab.ca> >Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:53:20 -0700 >From: Peter Kearns <kearns(a)compusmart.ab.ca> >Organization: KEARNS & McMURCHY >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: Canadian Firearms Digest <cdn-firearms-digest(a)sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca>, > "Anne Mclellan (Parliament)" <McLellan.A(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Bernard Johnston <johnston(a)pacific.net.sg>, > Bob Burgess <dq2(a)monarch.net>, Bob Lickacz <firearms(a)planet.eon.net>, > Brad Browne <coffee(a)ns.sympatico.ca>, > Dale Blue <bluedl(a)telusplanet.net>, > David Tomlinson <nfadat(a)telusplanet.net>, > Don Davies <nstn2906(a)fox.nstn.ca>, > Donna Ferollie <donnaferolie(a)sympatico.ca>, > Frank Szojka <dszojka(a)compusmart.ab.ca>, > Frank Williamson <afss(a)connect.ab.ca>, > Garry Breitkreutz <BreitG0(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Gordon Hitchen <acardin(a)v-wave.com>, > Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon(a)citenet.net>, > Jim Hinter <jhinter(a)shopnfa.com>, > "John St. Amour" <marstar(a)hawk.igs.net>, > LE QUEBECOIS LIBRE <libre(a)colba.net>, > Manuel De La Paz <simonjes(a)hotmail.com>, > Mark Hughes <mkhughe(a)north.nsis.com>, > Pierre Bourque <pierre(a)achilles.net>, > Lorne Gunter <lgunter(a)thejournal.southam.ca>, > Shafer Parker <shaferp(a)sprynet.com>, > Pat & Mike Ryan <theryans(a)sympatico.ca>, > Paul Bennett <paul.bennett1(a)sympatico.ca>, > Paul Rogan <firearms(a)hypertech.yk.ca>, Peekay <peter(a)firearms.ab.ca>, > Peter Cronhelm <cronhelm(a)nucleus.com>, > Peter Figol <pjfigol(a)canada.com>, Ken Epp <Epp.K(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Preston Manning <Manning.P(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Jack Ramsay <Ramsay.J(a)parl.gc.ca>, Deb Grey <Grey.D(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Monty Solberg <Solberg.M(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Raheem Jaffer <Jaffer.R(a)parl.gc.ca>, > "Robin Leech \"SPIDERMAN\"" <robinl(a)connect.ab.ca>, > Tony Bernardo <teebee(a)sprint.ca> >Subject: Anne McLellan's voters reject gun registration... >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-UIDL: ddaaa1595eab8ceea7515c82b013fcca > "The Edmonton Examiner" a local community newspaper, ran an editorial entitled "Gun lobby has a point." In it they accused the "pro-gun" faction of posturing and paranoia, but then went on to say the so called "lobby" is correct in it's assessment of the registry. The paper said, "the government has failed to show how gun registration will reduce crime, which is the sole reason for registration." The newspaper also asked how would knowing that people own rifles deter crimes, while "the new law does nothing to deter the easy access to guns smuggled in from the U.S." Another statement follows, "and of course the criminal element has no interest in registering guns." The editor makes one last telling remark, "So exactly what is the point? Essentially, it is to gather information. All governments love information, the more the better. But there is no proof at all that registering guns deters criminal activity." Sounds like an editor sounding off..... Right? What follows indicates the writer likes to do a little investigative journalism.... The editor then conducted a telephone poll asking the question "ARE YOU IN FAVOUR OF THE GOVERNMENTS GUN REGISTRY PROGRAM? (Remember folks, the constituents of "Idle Annie" had their say in this poll.) The results were 76% AGAINST the registration program with 24% in favour..... Oh dear, Annie..... You'd better hope they change their minds come election time...... Comments from those opposed to the registry, "I have never owned a gun, but I resent this program which smacks of a police state." Another said, "I have yet to undertstand how having the gun registered that killed those students in Montreal registered would have prevented that terrible deed." The last and most telling, "It is simply a way to enable the confiscation of firearms in order to prevent any insurrection or revolt against a government that may be imposing oppressive measures." The usual comments equating registering cars and guns, and the "only one life" bleat came from the 24% who actually liked the registry. One even said "Gun owners have to wait hours to get their guns, instead of minutes. Get over it you big whiny crybabies." (Kinda makes you question the maturity of that one!) The polls are turning in our favour, and they are doing so because we are educating the public. The more they know about the registration process and the costs, the less they like the idea. We have accomplished this without breaking any laws, and without the need to indulge in civil disobedience. If we break (even unjust) laws and engage in publicised acts of civil disobedience then we will lose. The newsmedia will then (rightly) portray us as a bunch of right wing fanatics, and elements of the lunatic fringe. The NFA has proved we can be heard, and that the public is seeing things our way without the need to engage in silly demonstrations. Let's see how far we can go within the law, during the next four years. regards, Peter Kearns NFA Communications Simon says: "Well what about it Annie? What do your spin doctors have to say about a poll that included the people who voted in the last election in Edmonton West? (Weren't you elected to represent the views of the people who voted for you?)........... ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================

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ARMCHAIR Commando List(Cypherpunks@cyberpass.net)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"I CANT PARTICIPATE IN THE REVOLUTION BECAUSE I DIDNT GET ENOUGH NOTICE OR ITS TOO INCONVENIENT OR THEY ARE USING LEFTIST PROTEST TECHNIQUES" EXPORTING PGP WITHIN MINUTES OF ITS RELEASE NOW THAT WOULD IMPRESS ME... (BEEN THERE DONE THAT!) NOW I am trying to shake the apathy from all of you.. Its so much easier to talk about revolution than participating or contributing... Talking about revolution does NOT make it happen magically.. I suspect the revolution will die given the above anon

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crypto boredom
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tuesday 12/15/98 4:37 PM John Young Seeing http://jya.com/kea-errata.htm makes me feel good that I am not doing crypto work anymore. I talked with Kent Parsons this afternoon at Holman's computer. Parsons was the department manager who was going to make his claim-to- fame at Sandia on the Forth code we developed. "We aren't getting the recognition [for Forth] we deserve." was a Parsons quote. I told Parsons that the Forth code we developed is executing all over the world. Jane Ellson was one of Parson's secretaries when we did the Forth 8085 and 8051 development in the weapons components department. Ellson is now Sandia president Paul Robinsons secretary. I need to revise my NSA-funded and Sandia-approved Forth book for the 80c32 and windows. http://www.apcatalog.com/cgi-bin/AP?ISBN=0125475705&LOCATION=US&FORM=FORM2 I saw http://jya.com/intel120898.htm. NSA's Forth expert Donald Simard talked to me about putting Forth on a x86 PC as a stand-alone secure operating system. Putting a secure RELIABLE operating system on a Pentium-class processor will be a MAJOR task. Perhaps more than just building a rad hard version of the chip. Parsons also led the effort at Sandia to build the 8051 as a rad hard chip at Sandia to replace Sandia's rad hard 8085 chip SET. Forth works great for weapons programmers. We need to get this unfortunate matter settled so that we can ALL move on to more constructive projects. Later bill

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HAS The Revolution Died??
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"I CANT PARTICIPATE IN THE REVOLUTION BECAUSE I DIDNT GET ENOUGH NOTICE OR ITS TOO INCONVENIENT OR THEY ARE USING LEFTIST PROTEST TECHNIQUES" EXPORTING PGP WITHIN MINUTES OF ITS RELEASE NOW THAT WOULD IMPRESS ME... (BEEN THERE DONE THAT!) NOW I am trying to shake the apathy from all of you.. Its so much easier to talk about revolution than participating or contributing... Talking about revolution does NOT make it happen magically.. I suspect the revolution will die given the above anon

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DARPA's Active Network page (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:50:56 -0500 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: DARPA's Active Network page > I saw an article on this in InfoWorld. NAI/TIS and DARPA talking about > putting self-switching packets into the network. I don't see this as too > far off from packets purchasing their passage across the network with > micromoney of some kind. How does the packet know what is a good price or a bad price as it makes each hop? Whose processor is it using to run its program to evaluate the costs? Who pays for that processor cost on a node that isn't selected? Who has access to the audit trail? How does a reliable copy get back to the originator? How does it do this in an anonymous network? ____________________________________________________________________ What raises the standard of living may well diminish the quality of life. The Club of Rome The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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NSA Electronic Sheriff
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From a new report: "Cybercrime, Cyberterrrorism, Cyberwarfare" Tomorrow's frontline commanders will be drawn from the ranks of computer wizards. The sandal culture is challenging the wingtips. The National Security Agency's (NSA) new electronic sheriff, responsible for protecting NSA's ground stations, is a 23-year-old GS-14. In the civilian sector, "techies" have moved into senior management positions. http://jya.com/cyber-trip.htm

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Equipment Resource: December Equipment Update
by sales＠equipmentresource.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Distributed Programming with DIPC (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From owner-sparclinux-outgoing(a)vger.rutgers.edu Tue Dec 15 20:47:43 1998 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:09:40 -0600 (CST) From: Kamran Karimi <karimi(a)cs.uregina.ca> To: sparclinux(a)vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Distributed Programming with DIPC Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.981215170900.10107H-100000(a)MERCURY.CS.UREGINA.CA> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Orcpt: rfc822;sparclinux(a)vger.rutgers.edu Sender: owner-sparclinux(a)vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk X-Loop: majordomo(a)vger.rutgers.edu To people interested in distributed programming and clustering under Linux, This is to introduce DIPC (Distributed Inter-Process Communication). DIPC is a software-only solution for very easy distributed programming under the Linux operating system. Here developers design their applications as a group of processes, each possibly running on a different Linux computer, and then use DIPC to _transparently_ exchange data between them. The main objective of the DIPC project is to make distributed programming as much like "normal" programming as possible. DIPC hides itself behind UNIX System V's IPC mechanisms, consisting of Semaphores, Messages, and Shared Memories, and makes them work over a network. This means that DIPC offers, among other things, Transparent Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) with strict consistency: Processes can read from and write to the shared memory with no need for any explicit synchronization! This makes DIPC very different from systems like PVM or MPI. The source code of a DIPC program is nearly identical to a normal UNIX program using System V IPC. Actually, a DIPC program can even run in a Linux computer with no DIPC support; no need for recompilation. System V IPC is widely available in UNIX variants, and is very well documented, meaning that developers may already know the programming interface, or they can learn it very easily, confident that the usefulness of the newly learned material is not tied to the availability of DIPC. This is in sharp contrast to most other distributed programming systems. Using a mainly "shared-memory" programming interface means that the same distributed application can also run on a multi-processor Linux machine at "full speed" DIPC modifies the Linux kerenl in order to offer its excellent degree of transparency. There are no needs for any link libraries, and it can be used from any programming language that allows access to the OS calls. The hardware can consist of a single Linux machine, or a cluster of computers connected to each other by a TCP/IP network. DIPC has been tested on inter-continental WANs and is a heterogeneous system, as it can run on Linux/i386 and Linux/m68k, with both versions being able to talk to each other. (volunteers for porting DIPC to other CPU families are welcome). People intersted in distributed systems can easily and safely try DIPC. After patching a standard Linux kernel, DIPC becomes a configuration option (make config), and can be left out at compile time if desired. When DIPC is compiled in, it can be turned off any time with no need for a reboot. For more more information about DIPC, visit http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc . You can download the package (which includes the sources and the documentation) from the web page, or from ftp://wallybox.cei.net/pub/dipc . A mailing list devoted to discussions about DIPC is addressed at linux-dipc(a)wallybox.cei.net . Feel free to send your comments and questions here. To view the previous posts to DIPC's mailing list target your browser at http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc/ml-archive . -Kamran Karimi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of the message to majordomo(a)vger.rutgers.edu

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Re: First "Crypto Refugee"?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:04 AM -0800 12/15/98, tony(a)secapl.com wrote: >> the shakespeare analysis seems like a good idea to >> me. I am not aware of literate papers that try to >> analyze it with frequency analysis instead of >> just vague assertions by the authors. there is >> a huge set of literature that tries to link of >> the writings of shakespeare to someone else, but >> as far as I know not much of it is computer analysis. > > This was what brought William Freidman to Riverside, where he both >created monographs on cryptanalysis and met his wife. (described in detail >in Kahn.) And computerized textual analyses of Shakespeare was one of the most publicized applications of the computers in the 60s. I remember reading several stories about this then. And I recall an exhibit on the results of such computerized search, as of around 1968 or so, at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. (a class outing). As when Detweiler or someone proposed this as a "neat thing for Cypherpunks to do" a couple of years ago, the idea was old before 98% of this list were born. Not saying it's not still an interesting research topic, just that it's a well-established field. And most of the low-hanging fruit has been picked. --Tim May Y2K -- LMGALMAO -- Loading my guns and laughing my ass off ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.

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DigiCash Update, part II
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As some of you may be aware of, I am involved with an effort to acquire DigiCash. Allow me therefore to suggest that now is not a good time to attempt to purchase a patent license directly from DigiCash. You would most likely be paying too much. DigiCash has for months now attempted to find a buyer for the company's assets. Due to the expectations on the value of the assets, and differences between this and the offers they've received, the board has turned down these offers, including the first offer by my group. Ultimately, the differences between some of the high expectations the board has, and the actual offers they are receiving will be worked out between higher offers and lower expectations. Until then, DigiCash operates on a post-bankruptcy filing bridge loan. This loan won't last forever. Ultimately, DigiCash will be sold. But nobody wants to wait forever. Not you, not me, not the DigiCash board. The faster DigiCash gets sold to our group, the faster the technology will become available to all interested parties under low cost (and in many cases free) licensing terms. Even if DigiCash should now be willing to sell licenses to generate cash flow or reorganize in some new plan and forestall the inevitable sales of assets a little bit longer, the current DigiCash is unlikely to make the licenses available for as low of a cost as our group will make them available after an acquisition of DigiCash. We are in a position to offer potentially significant cost minimization to any prospective licensee of DigiCash IP. With every additional party committing to our effort, we can reduce the cost per license. Scott of course would be amiss of his fiduciary duty would he not attempt to maximize the financial return to DigiCash. We have no such constraint. I have a lot of respect for Scott and he is trying to do what is best for the DigiCash shareholders and debtholders (As he should). We on the other hand are more focused on what is best for the technology, to ensure it is deployed widely and in all it's various potential uses. The more serious parties join our effort, the faster will we be able to make another bid and the faster the DigiCash board will review and hopefully approve our next offer. Ultimately, everybody will be happy. The creditors will be happy since they get their money, the current executive group at DigiCash will be happy to move on having successfully found a palatable deal, and the licensees will be happy, since they will be able to obtain the IP and options for support and technology development instead of being held in limbo with the present DigiCash situation. And of course the developer community will be happy, since the patents will be available to all, not just to the few to which DigiCash might license the patents to improve their unfortunate cash flow situation. This broad availability will allow the market to validate the technology. No single player, or even small group of players, can make eCash a success. Only an aggressive push by many large, small and medium sized players who are all deploying eCash and blinded private payment systems can. This is one of the many reasons our group has the support of several of the larger banks in the world, banking software/EDI vendors, credit card clearing houses, personal financial/cryptography software vendors, global media corporations, and other players that are required to make eCash and other DigiCash IP derived technologies ubiquitous. Feel free to contact DigiCash directly if you must. We certainly encourage people who are interested in exclusive ownership of the DigiCash IP, and are not interested in opening up the patents or technology to deal directly with them since this is contrary to our goal. But if you are interested in any one part, one use or application or even in all of the parts in a non-exclusive way please make sure to email me first as I believe it will benefit everyone for a lot less money. --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> I will soon revoke my PGP key 0x375AD924 for administrative reasons.

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