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Re: Report available: "Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers"
by anonymous＠freezone.remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I downloaded this so-called "report". It doesn't even mentions PGP. Gotta wonder why the 007 wannabe "experts" and the Big Business (BSA) want you to only use 90 bits for your keys and why they've never heard of PGP... Anyone who listens to crypto advice from people who's purpose in life is to listen to *YOU* gets what they deserve. I'll stay with PGP which has a 2048 bit key. JustWalT

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cypher-list for telcom legislation
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Since the telcom legislation has been passed, I thought it might be prudent to remind everyone that there is a PGP encrypted mailing list called cypher-list. It can be subscribed to by sending email to cypher-list-request(a)vishnu.alias.net. All messages and transactions are encrypted. The code is a little buggy but it works for the most part. It seems that cypher-list would make an excellent platform for discussion on the telcom legislation and maybe even ways to thwart it. If you have trouble subscribing, perry(a)vishnu.alias.net has been very helpful. (he got me on!) Lazarus

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"Plonk"
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Why do people feel the need to announce to the whole world that they have just plonked someone? Big deal. It happens all the time. Plonk 'em and get on with your life.

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Nando Times and the "decency" act
by stevenw＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The NandO Times is an online newspapaer (www.nando.com) that has George Carlin's seven dirty words and lots more as their lead story today: see http://152.52.2.152/nt/nando.cgi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Weller | "The Internet, of course, is more | than just a place to find pictures | of people having sex with dogs." stevenw(a)best.com | -- Time Magazine, 3 July 1995

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Blue Ribbons
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- For as long as my 10-yard spool of blue ribbon and box of paperclips hold out, I'm sending a ribbon/paperclip to any snailmail address in the U.S. Note that each one is an individually hand-crafted work of art :-) Dave Merriman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMRnw4cVrTvyYOzAZAQGXUQP/fu7/K7dkjSkbcDAgrOmVNH0OaUn6t5SP E6DKfyfz3Wlu2VIhxCAS0KGHaLdCSH1teGFfIuhwOWikq+FdidJjXjep04/MAuAe +KXI0QoaFYY4dVVi9qX8Uzz1igOHs2MXDXG/6eZ1AlSux+HG1DHPz44PyUY7flWP sVizJ7plH2w= =qrdr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------- "It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error." Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Judge <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> My web page: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1148

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Re: Assassination Politics--isn't it gambling?
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 06:00 PM 2/6/96 PST, banelaw(a)med.com wrote: >Jim: as to "Assassination Politics." Isn't the structure you describe >gambling? Placing money on a prediction, with the correct predictor >winning? I guess that depends on the laws, doesn't it? <G> Seriously, though, since all the participants are anonymous, and it can all be done from overseas... Somehow, though, I think politicians will take little solace from knowing that they are protected from death only by laws against gambling. > And if so, isn't it illegal if done over the wires, i.e., federal >commerce? I'm not looking for a way to declare your scheme illegal, I'm >just pointing out that there are other angles, especially if done over the >wires. I'd sure like to read a serious legal analysis of all this. Maybe all the lawyers are too terrified to respond. > I guess you could move the structure off shore--pity the poor country >hosting such an entity! If you were at all succesfull, the server accepting >digital cash would be moving from place to place--remember pirate radio? Presumably, the digital cash could be encrypted with the organization's private key, and published (anonymously) on a USENET area, in a way which is untraceable and unidentifiable. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com Klaatu Burada Nikto Something is going to happen. Something.......Wonderful! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMRlnY/qHVDBboB2dAQHJcQP/T8u6c5K3Idb5K8/ztBJWSqTQBPmvMlpR y4GlRgOyIn11jnMX60p7ffselQwSF8mxM3BJv4O2ODr/KWwACeQoK9svWW30xSyF 0eSuFzHvOfrZLW3xvpTo1mMoxRCtYeUQZLZGLvU2G99P6GeWCPRhWbFfTQ1Q6aen yiEOvB/DfUs= =Aj2b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Tell me whats wrong with this
by lunaslide＠loop.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Tell me whats wrong with this section of the telecom bill. I have a six >year old boy I am trying to raise >and it is hard enough to teach him respect and values without explaining why >Ned Beatty is being >bungholed in the woods by Billy Bob or why the Terminator splattered this >guys brains all over the >wall. > Tell me why parents should not be able to censor their OWN >television so that they may raise their children the way THEY see >fit...................Did your dad give you his old >playboys?.........NOOOOO............ <snip> A note here...my dad also did not go to jail for two years and get fined $100,000 when I weasled my way into his closet, without his knowledge, and found his Playboys at age five! >All I'm saying is it's tough to raise a child these days without the added >distortion of modern >programing and parents need not be denied any tool that can help them >achieve success. <rm for brevity> I didn't see anything really wrong with that part of the bill. What it will encourage is advertisers to withdraw from the more violent shows, and in turn will encourage television producers to prefer funding less violent shows. Since I don't watch television that often anyhow, it won't affect me very much. I do see where it will deny those who wish to see such shows the violence they wish to see. This is an issue, and it is indirectly caused by the bill, but it can not be used effectively against the govt. because they did not directly outlaw violence. It is particularly the CDA which boils my blood. One other concern, however, is that the lifting of restrictions on who can compete for what will result in mergers and buyouts of internet providers and that when only a few major companies own the bulk of the industry, the consumers will suffer from content restriction, technological lag and possibly price gouging. I note the car, oil, software and media industries as a few examples. For example, journalists have traditionally been in support of free speech and civil rights; they are, for the most part, rather liberal. However, they, particularly those in television journalism, have been notably absent in this battle over net censorship and have definitely not been there to support us. In fact, they have even spoken to our cause's detriment on many occasions, by the slant of their pieces! I can only attribute this logically to the fact that the internet takes attention away from their industry. The internet competes with television and print as an information source, and this the owners of the media do not want. It's sort of an unspoken conspiricy (appologies, I've already been accused of turning this into ConspiricyPunks once before:-) Nontheless, those are some of my concerns over the telcom bill aside from the obvious CDA. lunaslide On the meridian of time there is no injustice, only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. Henry Miller

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Re: [NOISE] #/%age of CDA-blackened sites
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Sorry to post this question here, but I know of no other group with >folks who would know. Have any of the "spiders" such as Alta Vista >been sent to see just how many US sites have been blackened in the >protest? The approximate number and percentage of US sites blackened >might be interesting. In my limited surfing, I have been gratified >to see the _widespread_ response -- but I am not the typical user. I don't think it's updated enough things recently (or else it only indexes the contents of a page and not the header details in the <BODY> statement.) For instance, BGCOLOR="#000000" had 197 hits, but most of them were old, and on topics like "How to set the background colors on your web page", and NO documents matched both BGCOLOR="#000000" and vtw. #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

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Re: Fair Credit Reporting Act and Privacy Act
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:28 AM 2/9/96 -0500, Duncan wrote, regarding the appallingly invasive British Privacy Act: >Computer bureaux which process personal data for others or allow data users >to process personal data on their computers must also register. Their >register entries will contain only their name and address. > >Data users and computer bureaux who should register but do not, are >committing a criminal offence, as are those operating outside the >descriptions contained in their register entries. In these cases the >Registrar regularly prosecutes. The penalty for non-registration can be a >fine of up to £5,000 plus costs in the Magistrates Courts, or an unlimited >fine in the Higher Courts." Ouch - does this mean that if you offer shell accounts, you either have to contractually limit the processing your users may do, or be fined as a criminal for not registering? #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

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Re: Benefits of the V-Chip
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:11 AM 2/9/96 -0500, olbon(a)dynetics.com (Clay Olbon II) wrote: >There is one potential side-benefit to the V-chip -- The inverse-V-chip .. >I am looking forward to a time when I will never, even accidentally, have >my TV tuned to "Full House" ;-) Just as many people program their televisions using VCR-Plus codes to record the shows they want (using TV Guide as a rating service) it would be easy for any rating service to publish a list of the codes for Approved Shows, Banned Shows, Rated-by-interestingness shows, etc. without putting any government-mandated rating chip in the TVs or forcing the TV producers to rate them (which also has a chilling effect on the shows produced.) #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com / billstewart(a)attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

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