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Re: in defense of Lon Horiuchi
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Zooko Journeyman wrote: > > Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> mumbled: > > > > It's amazing that Freeh would admit that shooting an unarmed > > woman holding an infant is what "he was trained to do" and was "within > > the scope of his authority" and that he "reasonably believed [it] was > > proper" to do so. What are they teaching at FBI school nowadays? > > > > Horiuchi's defense is really no different than Timothy > > McVeigh's: "yes, it was a mistake but he felt it was justified and > > reasonably believed at the time that what he was doing was proper..." > > Too bad McVeigh didn't have a badge saying FBI on it. > > Lest any naive readers who aren't familiar with the details of > the event buy this kind of spin-doctoring, please be aware that > the woman in question was probably not visible to the sniper, > and it is almost certain that he was aiming at her armed > husband who was shooting back. The bullet travelled through a > door or some such obstruction I think (I forget the details) > before hitting the victim. Zooko fails to take into consideration that the FBI's role in the affair was to back the unnecessary fascist actions of those who had decided it was their right to interfere in the life of a family which was largely minding their own business and seeking to live their lives free from constant subjection to a wide variety of often senseless and/or meaningless, arbitrary laws. Truthmonger

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How to use PGP without wasting your time
by Zooko Journeyman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The trick is: 1. don't go overboard with security. For example, I sometimes use PGP keys without passphrases. This is secure _enough_ for my more innocuous messages, and it is a lot more convenient. 2. get a scriptable/configurable e-mail agent which you can train (or have me or some cypherpunk train) to do PGP for you automagically. Regards, Zooko, Journeyman Cryptorebel

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Re: your mail about Dr. Dobbs CD-ROM.
by Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- On Sep 12, Garrard, David apparently wrote -------------------------------- > Has anyone gotten a copy of the Dr Dobb's Cryptography CDROM outside the > US yet ? Nope. But where did you hear that it was available inside the US already? > David Garrard --- and thus sprach: "Garrard, David" <David.Garrard(a)EXCH.EDS.com> ------------ Ciao, Unicorn. -- ======= _ __,;;;/ TimeWaster ================================================ ,;( )_, )~\| A Truly Wise Man Never Plays PGP: 64 07 5D 4C 3F 81 22 73 ;; // `--; Leapfrog With a Unicorn... 52 9D 87 08 51 AA 35 F0 ==='= ;\ = | ==== Youth is not a time in life, it's a State of Mind! ========

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Major Political Appointments
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Clinton Nominates Aaron to Commerce Department Post > WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- President Clinton today > announced his intent to nominate Ambassador David L. Aaron for the > position of Under Secretary for International Trade at the Department > of Commerce. and > WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Director Louis Freeh today declared his > agency "in great shape" despite a recent spate of public relations > embarrassments and said he has no plans to step down from his job. > But today, Freeh said he may even serve out his 10-year term. > "I'm staying on," he said. "I've got no current plans to leave." Freeh denied reports that Froomkin, Junger, Broiles, Karn and Shostack had large vacant portions at the back end of their calendars, or that Crispin and Toto had not even bothered to order one for next year.

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Re: FCPUNX:Let sleeping dogs lay
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:04 PM 9/11/97 -0700, Tim May wrote: > Nothing good can come out of crypto legislation. If it had not been for SAFE, now unSafe, we would be facing this crisis a bit later, when we will have more money, more power and more crypto deployed. There is no legislation like NO legislation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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US dissident in Sweden
by Asgaard 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Dagens Nyheter reported yesterday that a US citizen, Mr Ritt Goldstein, is in Sweden asking for political asylum. Alledgedly he has been systematically harassed and persecuted by US police after organizing resistance against police violence and brutality. The NYPD 'zero tolerance success' has recently been praised here as something for the Swedish police to learn from. Luckily the 'up yours' story surfaced soon afterwards. The latest crypto policy news here says that Sweden will not go along will mandatory GAK. In the long run there is little hope for European resistance to the New World Order, though. Only France has nuclear warheads out of US control and France is The Enemy as the leading proponent of an EU Superstate. Asgaard

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The NetBuyer Basement is Open!
by announce＠lists.zdnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Attacking GAK--team effort assembling
by Michael Wilson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Given that the U.S. and E.U. governments seem to be moving toward a policy of key escrow/recovery, 7Pillars Partners is starting a team effort to demonstrate the practical problems in implementing such a system. The plan is to have the team block out the probable design of the infrastructure, with as many of the options available outlined and discussed (e.g., 'escrow' itself--will a copy of the secret key need to be sent to the escrow agent, will it be created by the agent and assigned to the device, will the method be the use of two receiver keys (one packet to the intended party, one to the escrow agent), will the method be to implement a 'back door' into the cryptosystem itself), and then a thorough expansion on all possible methods of attack on the various elements of the infrastructure (denial, flooding, espionage, etc.). The intent of this project is two-fold: it will provide a practical guide that I hope will demonstrate that any key escrow/recovery system and infrastructure, no matter how secure/safe, will fall to attack; if such a system does end up being implemented and come into operation, the analysis will serve as a first-approximation guide for resistance. We could use a solid outside cryptographer, as well as an attorney to work through the probable legal elements involved in the system. Interest in being on the team should be indicated to: Michael Wilson, 5514706(a)mcimail.com or partners(a)7pillars.com MW http://www.7pillars.com/

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Wit Capital Update -- Unprecedented investment opportunities
by brandy＠witcapital.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: GAK will probably be economically impossible
by jf_avon＠citenet.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 15 Sep 97 at 10:19, Robert Hettinga wrote: > In fact, even if all transactions remain book-entry ones, the exploding > total transaction volume and competition to make those transactions > efficient will make GAK economically impossible, because it provides no > tangible benefit to those who use cryptography for business. There's no > economic return on the additional cost. > > The cost of anything is the foregone alternative, and the cost of GAK > causes you to forego a lot of money and potential revenue and doesn't buy > you anything in return. In the long term, you are right. But taxation doesn't buy much in return that you couldn't buy by yourself either but they still do it... But again, the incentives are differents from their standpoint... Ciao jfa

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