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Silenced Machine Guns Are Safer Than TWA
by qut＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

! "James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com>, writes: ! >I heard on talk.politics.guns somebody say that in Sweden they ! >had banned knives with a sharp point at the end, and were going ! >to ban sharp knives altogether. I think he was just engaging in ! >hyperbole, that he really meant that gun control in Sweden was ! >unreasonably strict, but on reflection I am not sure. ! > ! ! In a survey conducted in Sweden a few years ago, 50% of Swedish ! households had access to guns (generally military service weapons ! and sporting shotguns). Guns are, however, licensed and regulated, ! and seldom used in crimes. Licenses for "personal protection" are ! almost unobtainable. At least one military officer was court martialed ! when his service revolver was stolen from his automobile. ! ! The most significant "mass murderer" crimes in Sweden (one last ! year and one in the 1970's) were caused by people who used their ! legally-obtained military weapons. Hundreds of thousands of private American citizens legally own machine guns, silencers, live hand grenades, .75 caliber machine guns, etc. Perhaps 40% or so of the populace lives in an area without significantly higher regulations concerning such than the federal, which is not that bad. There is no federal law making silenced machine guns substantially more difficult to purchase and shoot than ordinary handguns. The feds certainly don't require training or any other similar requirement. Contrary to popular fiction, ALL firearms have been permanently registered since the 1968 Gun Control Act. The media monopoly lies when they say the contrary. How many firearm crimes were committed by these hundreds of thousands of ordinary untrained destructive weapon owners with their destructive weapons in the entire span of 1980-1996? *NONE*! THEREFORE, everyone in Sweden and America should be allowed to own silenced machine guns without any greater than the usual restrictions. BTW, I muse that the issue of guns, drugs and censorship make an excellent litmus test for libertarians: either you support the legalization of, all of, or your a fake.

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http://infinity.nus.sg/cypherpunks/
by qut＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Someone keeps asking for the filtered cypherpunks archive: http://infinity.nus.sg/cypherpunks/ It's filtered with hypermail and is lynx friendly. It's easiest to read by choosing the link to filter by subject.

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Re: WARNING vIRuS!
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 23:41:58 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: >> There is a new and VERY dangerous virus called the HAZ-MAT virus! >This is the clueless kind of crap I expect pitched to AOL users and upper >level management. >The only way that you could obtain the effects described above is with Black >Magic and/or Voodoo. (And not even then.) > >I remember a similar hoax going around about 3-4 years ago about viruses in >image files. I guess nothing on the net is ever forgotten entirely. >Especially the urban legends and bullshit. You ever notice how that is? People *never* remember things like "You have to execute something to get a virus". They *always* remember something like "Good Times." Reminds me of the guy who said you could stick all sorts of sensitive data in README.TXT because you can be sure nobody will look in there. - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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PGPCrack for DOS
by Mark M. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- There is now a DOS version of pgpcrack. It's available at http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/pgpcrack.html. - -- Mark PGP encrypted mail prefered. Key fingerprint = d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMipT5yzIPc7jvyFpAQE8Ewf+J7x0km0xcGZM32c4clmFJ5I9z/bAj6bL ryXS1BNDBbC72HuJWQPUeqDc0xEc6uyjCc0iytfBL0VqwjlLKCb7KZtxgP7gOlf6 T12/ZNQZwGy3PeClLthQRqQ0fjUtVs4mXWp+sDnAAClI6J+xEL/cBdHDD5tREngM ufDwueSAwFPQQE/adpS0E3alHj1XqdHMam5s60SGpsZyknnUhnUiAIc2w2CdmjJU 5jywEOosiMcbvYqhBaSuy3S53Pfjh07wEFfXp0t9CvvsJY13ipIW6jvgQgVYQL6u 0f1ob7CkwxiD/z598aXmmCc4Nmn0pFg9Zvqw9xLcs88s4GaGsH15gw== =zGl8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: hackers texts
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 01 Sep 1996 08:51:36 EDT, patrick b cummings wrote: >If any of you hackers out their have wrote any texts for beginning >hackers or know of any please send them to me at patrickc(a)juno.com You know, I think his mail server has a 36 hour delay on incoming messages. Either that or he's Roadkill on the Information Superhighway // \\ // \\ ______________ // \\ | | // \\ | Information | // \\ | Superhighway | // ____ \\ | 56MB/s | // /____\ \\ |______________| // |==__==| \\ | | // ~||~~||~ \\ | | // ' \\ | | // // \\ | | // \\ | | // / / \\ | | // \\ | | // /// \\ | | // \\ | | // . ,& \\ | | // . `;//* IS HERE \\ // . `|/^\@'< ' . | \\ // `_/x@=%$P/,', <---/ \\ // >@#)*?o$%( , \\ // \.X#j~\===B \\ / \\ : The Clue truck got him... [In case you haven't noticed yet, this looks best with a non-proportional font] - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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Re: Moscowchannel.com hack
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:09:32 -0500 (CDT), Igor Chudov @ home wrote: >> > Not really crypto, but related to the DOJ hack in a way. >> > >> > Moscow Channel is a pretty slick, Russian news/commentary >>page. Their Web >> > site was hacked and altered by someone who didn't seem to >>like Russians all >> > Just a matter of time before some builds a dedicated Satan >>type tool that >> > scans for HTTP server holes or messed up file permissions >>to make locating >> > potential victims easy. >> Write your web site to a CD-ROM and hard-code the base >>directory into the >> webserver. > >A hacker who has root can forcibly unmount the cdrom and mount >another >directory on that node. Not a good solution. Hack your system kernel to only allow mounting read-only media to that point. Most hackers wouldn't try "hot-patching" the system kernel. The ones that can probably have better things to do than hack your page. - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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Re: Bob Dole on Drugs
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:33:02 -0500 (CDT), Igor Chudov @ home wrote: >http://allpolitics.com/news/9608/31/radio.addresses/ > >... snip ... > > Dole, who returned to Washington for Labor Day > weekend, also pledged to use the White House as a > bully pulpit to promote the "moral message" > against drugs and to criticize what he called the > entertainment industry's glamorization of drug use. > > On Sunday, he is to address the convention of the > National Guard Association of the United States > during which he's expected to propose that the > military be enlisted to assist in a renewed war on > drugs. This actually makes a lot of sense; if you've decided on an all-out war on drugs, doing it right is *much* better than some sort of weenie effort like we've got. I liked Robert Heinlein on immigration "If we're going to stop immigration build a Berlin style wall complete with alligators in the moat. Otherwise give up the pretense; nothing is more expensive or less useful than a wall that isn't." (very loosely paraphrased) - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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Re: Silenced Machine Guns Are Safer Than TWA
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:33 AM 9/2/96, Skippy wrote: >Contrary to popular fiction, ALL firearms have been permanently >registered since the 1968 Gun Control Act. The media monopoly lies when >they say the contrary. Nope. Gun sales between individuals without any paperwork were fully legal in some places until recently (and may still be fully legal...I can only speak of California). >From 1974 until a couple of years ago, I bought and sold a dozen or more rifles, handguns, and even Evil Assault Weapons, mostly through fully legal gun shows. I even sold a .357 Smith to some guy, made a joke about how great these gun shows were and how great it was to be able to just take cash and hand over a gun without any paperwork...the guy laughed and said he was a San Jose cop. I felt nervous for a few seconds, but quickly realized there was no law *I* was breaking, so I laughed too. Most of these guns I kept no records on, nor did any laws say I had to. (A few years ago it became necessary for even private citizen-units to obtain the proper firearms transfer papers from the gubment. I wanted to sell a laser-equipped Heckler & Koch SP-89 without creating a paper trail (as I'd not had one when I acquired the piece a few years earlier), so a friend of mine used his friendly neighborhood libertarian FFL dealer, who has a policy that the stack of transfer forms he is required to keep on file will mysteriously burn up if the Feds ever seek out his records. (Who knows if he'll abide by this policy, but the point is that there are literally tens of thousands of these "kitchen table FFL dealers," and no computerized filing of records. This is one reason I quit the NRA: they are advocating the "instant check." Such an instant check would mean massive computerization of all files, and of course cross-referencing to files on citizens. This would be much worse than the "paper chaos" of stacks of firearms paperwork sitting in dusty filing cabinets. I'll take a 10-day ineffectual waiting period to a Big Brother database of all purchasers.) >BTW, I muse that the issue of guns, drugs and censorship make an >excellent litmus test for libertarians: either you support the >legalization of, all of, or your a fake. I'm not sure what the "legalization of censorship" would mean, though I support the right of anyone to screen out what they choose not to read or view. And I support the right of companies to decide what materials to buy, have viewed by employees, etc. (So if the "Valley Lesbigays" want to show a tape at Hewlett-Packard, H-P can just say "Nope--we're not interested.) I fully support legalization of all drugs, all guns, and am unalterably opposed to any form of government censorship. Does this mean I pass or flunk the litmus test? (He said acidly.) --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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desubscribe
by Cyber Thrill 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Moscowchannel.com hack
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 1 Sep 1996 12:22:40 -0500 (CDT), Igor Chudov @ home wrote: >> > > Write your web site to a CD-ROM and hard-code the base directory into the >> > > webserver. >> > >> > A hacker who has root can forcibly unmount the cdrom and mount another >> > directory on that node. Not a good solution. >> >> Real hard disks such as RL02's & RK07's have WRITE DISABLE >> switches.... >> > >You can't mount the whole Unix read-only, so there will always be a place >to put the hacked web page, and then mount that place over DocumentRoot. If you had enough RAM in the machine, you could disable swapping, send all log files to /dev/nul (or /dev/lp0), run *only* a web server or anything else that can avoid writing to disk (probably no CGI, etc). It wouldn't be too interesting, but then you probably don't want much happening on your web server anyway. You could even wire that write-disable switch or jumper into a keyswitch on the main console. - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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