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Jim Bell's legal defense fund
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi there, I do not know Jim Bell personally and am not sure how rich he is, but suspect that he might be in need of some funds in order to be properly represented by good attorneys. How about setting up his legal defense fund? igor

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Lethality, guns, knives, & reality
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 13:05:12 -0800 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Re: SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS > Also, the "boiling a frog slowly" metaphor comes to mind...most people have > little idea how the vise has tightened. And in the case of "gun rights," > most Americans are apparently of the opinion that their lives will be safer > if all guns are banned. > > (Which may be true, if _all_ guns were banned. The last time I looked at the FBI stats on homicide deaths by beatings with clubs, hands, and feet were much larger than homicides by gun or knife. trivial dribble: Nifty thing I found out today is that the cleaner that I use on my whiteboard at work burns quite rapidly. Jim Choate CyberTects ravage(a)ssz.com

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Re: The USA is the world's biggest terrorist state (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 16:49:34 -0400 (edt) > From: Ryan Anderson <randerso(a)ece.eng.wayne.edu> > On Tue, 20 May 1997, Peter Trei wrote: > > >...to assassinating dozens of leaders of countries the USA wished > > >to shape in different directions, the USA is Terror State Numero Uno. > > > > Dozens? As in 12+? Again, which ones? When? Any since the (Carter?) > > exec order forbidding attacks against heads of state? > > Ford, I believe. I would be interested in someones itemized list regarding this matter. In particular I would be interested in the paper-trail of proof used in making the assertions. Jim Choate CyberTects ravage(a)ssz.com

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update.322 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From physnews(a)aip.org Tue May 20 14:20:29 1997 Date: Tue, 20 May 97 09:14:36 EDT From: physnews(a)aip.org (AIP listserver) Message-Id: <9705201314.AA25712(a)aip.org> To: physnews-mailing(a)aip.org Subject: update.322 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 322 May 20, 1997 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein IN QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS electrons are put in a barrel, as it were, and sent over a series of waterfalls. Instead of recombining with holes to create photons, as in conventional semiconductor lasers (one injected electron resulting in one photon), electrons in a QC laser pass through a succession of closely coordinated quantum wells---each well consisting of a sandwich of semiconductor layers---unloading energy as they go, in the form of photons (one electron creating 25 photons, one for each stage in the stack). QC lasers are unique in that the output light wavelength is determined not by semiconductor chemistry (the type of materials used) but by the thickness and spacing of the layers (sometimes only a few atoms thick). Cascade lasers, first developed in 1994 by Federico Capasso and Jerome Faist at Bell Labs, can operate in the mid infrared wavelength region (4- 12 microns). This technologically important range is currently being served primarily by low-power lasers which can only work at low temperatures. By contrast, Bell Labs' new QC laser can not only operate at room temperature with high output power (60 mW, with even higher power evident in recent experiments) but can also be tuned to a single wavelength through the use of gratings within the laser. These features will allow scientists in the field to carry out remote chemical sensing (of, say, pollutants present at parts-per-billion levels) by selectively exciting, and detecting, specific chemical species. (Jerome Faist et al., Applied Physics Letters, 19 May 1997; and a talk at this week's Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics in Baltimore.) ZERO-DIMENSIONAL METALS are studied by physicists at Harvard. In general, reducing the dimensionality of an object makes its quantum nature more manifest. In a semiconductor, for example, confining mobile electrons to a plane (2D) or a wire (1D) or a dot (0D) enforces an ever sharper limit on the allowed energies, and this can be exploited in producing compact and highly controllable electronic devices. The Harvard scientists (contact Dan Ralph, now at Cornell, ralph(a)msc.cornell.edu) have succeeded in attaching leads to 10-nm-sized metal particles; this allows them to apply a gate voltage which turns the tiny particle into a transistor. Unlike semiconductor dots, the metal nanoparticle can be made magnetic or superconducting, allowing forces inside the sample to be analyzed. Indeed, with this speck of aluminum, the discrete quantum-mechanical spectrum of electrons in a metal have been measured more accurately than ever before. One can watch the electron spectrum even as magnetic fields break up the superconducting state. (D.C. Ralph et al., upcoming in Physical Review Letters, 26 May 1997.) GAMMA RAY BURSTERS HAVE REVEALED THEMSELVES at optical and radio wavelengths. Astronomers have sought to establish whether these once-only gamma sources were near at hand (in the halo of our galaxy) or resident in distant galaxies. On May 8 the BeppoSAX satellite spotted a new GRB at gamma wavelengths. Alert Caltech scientists soon viewed the same object with the Palomar and Keck optical telescopes, establishing from the redshift that the object was some billions of light years away. Meanwhile, the Very Large Array radio telescope has also glimpsed the object. As of last week the visible signal was decreasing and the radio signal increasing in intensity. (Press releases from Caltech (May 14) and VLA (May 15).)

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17 Dec '03

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encryption laws
by Allan Thompson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Would it be possible for a court to subpeona a encrypted file or key, and order you to tell them the key ? If you didn't would you be held in 'contempt of court' ? -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAyw57X8AAAEEANs79QzyCIwCXMUnbiFTK5l8lJBXKdZqGAHxwgbDOuOGBSJB HBxlfycbSqevTPmKRTL4yHD1yCmAbkTrZtZuP1DDWeStaujf3M8lh6RlU4lOLU4Z IAu12Y9i4IgyBQkM03d/TZfAaXwUKQu2APBNz8D6ZT53xVzJVy80opqUWHzJAAUR tB9BbGxhbiBUaG9tcHNvbiA8YXRjMTJAd2VsbC5jb20+iQCVAwUQLDsrvS80opqU WHzJAQEvWgQAvx/DdLFB5Jk4BOiSD5QX8qDbAb40L1rgNAi3R/1kSYnBjli/ncDR msyJKoviG0Ppl0JSxfX4SpgoKOsS1jpz5yFFmBAPCPJ5VC0cjwhgItdnyHnAcj99 FdrcVhF9G2oJkeoqgXkt3Hy6YWhGhxI4Wvcrv6eAC1yKZ8FA3xltuWA= =o+Ud -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Why I think Jim Bell is getting railroaded
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I think that the Government is trying to make an example of Mr. Bell. I think that much of the charges reported in the news are flase. Here is why... 1) They claim that Jim was actively trying to disrupt 911 service and poison the Bull Run water supply. These are non-political targets. Jim only thinks in political targets. (I remember trying to get him to come to grips with the idea that such a system as AP would not be used just for government types. That is would be used against anyone who had enemies. Could not even make a dent...) 2) The warrent is sealed, yet the media is reporting all sorts of things about the case. Where is the information coming from? Sounds like planted information to keep people from complaining too much when they send him up the river for a few years... (Whether he survives long in custody is another story. I would be willing to bet that if he does not "cooperate" that he will have some sort of "accident" while in government hands.) 3) The suspected crimes list keeps changing. How many times has the "official" story changed? Each time it gets more and more lurid. (And many of the crimes are ones that get used against damn near every case the government tries against someone who threatens the security of the state. Belief starts to wear a bit thin after a while...) Of course, i do not expect anything like the truth from standing in the way of a conviction... "Paranoia strikes deep... Into your soul it will creep... It starts when you're always afraid... Step out of line, the man come, and take you away..." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0 beta Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBM4J5L+QCP3v30CeZAQGzywf9HoiiBqO3vbuYDtHreTk7IPKP6ZUIZX4c 5Wn54ip08cJ3pRKi+xWFhuniVve5GaenMoMbWMvVH2AQ8jVl+xGpnjGyACr0dnFK icJkwXX59/v+whYyu9R7lWba9qjqCq6XAUkyZog28F23mVGqKYz+QRPqYQF2C9AE KN7WCXd1C38m6q1YtpqgaZZ7i3+9wDjkYTm+2J4wogKzxnhSWZchhslI0V0QoySe 0zf83U8nHWQtE0d4c8nzmdRV+wTBB3Aj5Q9WVOYFSukRfn9n1pBC00aZ3Pec8BLC AeRkbbG6pKprTOfxWzd+s5T5KlWZZXo9667n7xfi/wH9LNtKNGHfEg== =vP8r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- | "Bill Clinton - Bringing back the sixties one Nixon at a time." | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com|

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encryption laws (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 23:04:39 -0400 > From: Allan Thompson <sparky12(a)earthlink.net> > Subject: encryption laws > Would it be possible for a court to subpeona a encrypted file or key, > > and order you to tell them the key ? > If you didn't would you be held in 'contempt of court' ? If they had reasonable cause to believe you had knowledge of the key and were refusing to divulge it under direct order of the court you would be held in contempt until you were very old and gray. Jim Choate CyberTects ravage(a)ssz.com

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The Bell Plan
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- John Young wrote: > The Oregonian, May 20, 1997, Metro Section P-1: > An affidavit says a Vancouver man arrested Friday talked of > sabotaging Portland's 9-1-1 computer and Bull Run water > > Vancouver, Wash. -- A Vancouver man arrested Friday by Internal > Revenue agents discussed sabotaging the computers in Portland's > 9-1-1 center and talked about using a botulism toxin to contaminate > the Bull Run water supply, a federal agent said Monday. After reading this news article and a variety of posts on the cypherpunks list (especially by Tim May and Paul Bradley), I have decided that I cannot in good conscence allow Jim Bell's persecution for exercising his basic human right to free speech to pass by without taking personal action to support him. "Then they came for the CypherPunks, and nobody spoke up..." - Jonathan Accordingly, I am hereby starting a thread on the cypherpunks list to discuss "the possibility of putting the fibers down the air vents of a federal building" to kill its computers, and the feasability of using other methods to accomplish the same end. If Jim Bell is guilty of the charges against him, then I am already guilty of the same types of charges, as are many other cypherpunks. I undoubtedly have some of the same files/posts on my computer as the ones that the government will use as proof of Jim Bell's guilt. My action in this regard is for the purpose of protesting the governments persecution of its citizens, Jim Bell specifically, and to act to counter the benefits that they expect to gain by doing so. (CypherPunk Translation~~"I'm pissing in the government's face.") In keeping with what I see as a cypherpunk frame of mind, I am posting this via an anonymous remailer, but I am also digitally signing it. I am not hiding my identity, but merely taking action to prevent my public statement from being used to unjustly persecute me. In effect, I am telling the U.S. government that in exercising one of my basic human rights I feel it is necessary to protect myself legally from the government persecution of its citizens. I am also telling them that I will not "go quietly into the night" in the face of censorship, loss of privacy, and oppression. I will "route around" the "damage" that the government's policies and legislation cause, doing so in a non-violent manner. (Hopefully, but not realistically, they will recognize that if they manage to block all means for me to non-violently route around the abrogation of my rights as a free human being, that my only alternatives will be conflict or enslavement.) Anyway, in thinking about the possibilities surrounding the introduction of carbon fibers into a federal building, my first thought was in regard to whether or not carbon fibers are actually known to cause damage to hard drives. Does anyone know where this idea comes from and whether it has any known basis in fact? If there is some basis for believing it to be a possibility, then it would not take much effort to test it out. One could get an old computer for a petty sum and use it to test the results of introducing the fibers through the power supply. TruthMonger #1 "They will get my cryptography when they pry it from my cold, dead algorithms." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0 beta Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM4KR+6ozBjzmqceZAQHeRQQAiI6CSKzPgioO5UdacoNbtKPyTvhHOuNB /kkCx1UuYiVOaIw48oVX7Gj1bIcMMkAiM+q6q+SOZkEq+hNUdriISpY5/aKA39Yp ejNKl2McRK7WrP+TQPNx9hwxFrW93JrqjhSPhZsgkVNtIHG/wE1RpdWJzPiIOeP2 /Q9TTHmRoRU= =x+P/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 5.0 beta mQCNAzMs140AAAEEAL1CAoB5pd97hIOoT6L0v05Ov8nw0unf0db6NXZ91EJAyq9p DoPGJl7Z6m5McIsNI2DrCEEt7KYdt0ZIGcqqK2gmCePYI0oQOFj+jznI3jKXg1k2 R+ngk+cUn21EfrNXFGPk1Tuc1/3Qib6cX6BZRJvvz1FNYNt/zqozBjzmqceZAAUR tBtUb3RvIDx0b3RvQHNrLnN5bXBhdGljby5jYT6JAJUCBRAzPR6jIokaQ0EgfuUB ARyWA/9P1UVMvBAGXY488f/Nvs1CZnp/a0SNxELXfpMyJz/Vdd2RuahRYoc50Cbp F1/QOd4PZeEW2aNT/shxfm3Q9zpxGzyFgy//tEXdw2aedzdT4oMOgDBqMrzc2LfN 8zWqF5cWJLASIqwbrIkmyZR6LUCxmE79WmgRlQGAHfMwwC3WLYkAlQMFEDOCfw+w X4yQZvuMZQEBhuYEAJW2pN2aj1m7972GkQvUVBeenWrMqKXNyHF/73+YGZsLLo79 ApWR1ROm2RgxXJQeHSrUolXhxpkjHe9DJ5GwrsV7m97HfwvM32Vw/32U4T1jyeez VvBqJQ417UxxYS2QSQZIyLcVojFEJvh/kQ2NFXwTPJ1BscPn4/KnT6DD0u5ciQCV AwUQM4J+6pfboLn8NWjNAQGTigQAnrFZ8OiAguWqi1LsClKo0t9y+Ly98EPnpBt2 FgQN9/Z8PSZjPqEn9AJk7Z5TBhGJNXBmkULiuNA9zvGTsRM0S7Oi6/WFUcL9rio6 gMsxTnDythGaFa5YDQXgXtFxqcjsojGhe922KFnVi4xxatO9vm9Zo3JaNAK8zvg2 rIrd7VQ= =MuiR -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: Why I think Jim Bell is getting railroaded
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:25 PM 5/20/97 -0700, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >I think that the Government is trying to make an example of Mr. Bell. I >think >that much of the charges reported in the news are flase. ^^^^^ I meant "false". Dyslexia. Name for it by ask! --- | "Bill Clinton - Bringing back the sixties one Nixon at a time." | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com|

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