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What are the Feds looking at now :)
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This message was observed to flow to firewalls mailing today... could this mean mean something is going on?? anon >Return-Path: firewalls-owner(a)GreatCircle.COM >Received: from miles.greatcircle.com by relay2.UU.NET with ESMTP > (peer crosschecked as: miles.greatcircle.com [198.102.244.34]) > id QQaodh13554; Fri, 3 May 1996 15:23:00 -0400 (EDT) >Received: (majordom@localhost) by miles.greatcircle.com (8.7.1-lists/Lists-960417-1) id LAA12439 for firewalls-outgoing; Fri, 3 May 1996 11:25:42 -0700 (PDT) >Received: from justice.usdoj.gov (justice.usdoj.gov [149.101.1.1]) by miles.greatcircle.com (8.7.4/Miles-951221-1) with SMTP id LAA12425 for <Firewalls(a)GreatCircle.COM>; Fri, 3 May 1996 11:25:37 -0700 (PDT) >Received: by justice.usdoj.gov id aa17656; 3 May 96 14:07 EDT >From: <casey(a)justice.usdoj.gov> >To: Firewalls(a)GreatCircle.COM >Subject: Firewalls-Digest V5 #289 >X-Mailer: SCO Portfolio 2.0 >Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 14:03:09 -0400 (EDT) >Message-ID: <9605031403.aa16958(a)justice.usdoj.gov> >Sender: firewalls-owner(a)GreatCircle.COM >Precedence: bulk > >I am looking for a list of all the Internet >Service Providers world-wide. Can anyone point me >in the right direction? > >Thanks in advance, > >Mary L. Casey, Program Analyst >Information Management & > Security Staff >Information Resources Management >Justice Management Division >U.S. Dept of Justice

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Re: proposed anti-pseudospoofing law in Georgia
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 8:00 PM 5/3/96, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote: >> "anti-psuedospoofing". > >pardon me, I thought that was the correct term. I saw someone >like Hal Finney or TCM (PM? EH?) use it here as I recall. >it's hard to remember. if there is a more correct term I will >be happy to use that in the future. Larry, as you certainly know, I am also known as "Nick Szabo" and "Robert Hettinga," Hal Finney is just another name for "Eric Hughes" and "Sandy Sandfort," and "Perry Metzger" actually a pseudonym shared by both me and John Gilmore. On occasion we meet to do a Vulcan mind-meld and adopt new identities. --Medusa

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Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
by jordan＠Thinkbank.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From sandfort(a)crl.com Fri May 3 21:52:50 1996 At 11:31 AM 5/3/96 -0700, brerrabbit(a)alpha.c2.org wrote: >Do tell. How would someone, just for instance, who is considering >leaving a "permanent" job for the higher compensation available to >contractors and consultants be able to structure a business in such a >way as to benefit from these techniques? 2) Take a vacation to a tax haven you like because of what you've read about it. I'm confused as to how "merely" putting your after-tax (you *will* declare this consulting revenue on your Schedule C, won't you?) bucks in an offshore account will "save" you money. This only "works" if you are able to use what you've taken away to advantage; you may generate a tax "savings" on those gains. Oh, and it also only works if you are willing to expose yourself to being arrested at some point for tax evasion. This is silly; there are legitimate reasons for structuring business efforts in other tax juristictions. Avoiding income tax on your primary source income isn't one of them. My answer to the original question: save your $1k you'd send to Sandy for the "advice" (plus travel associated with finding your 'haven') and open a SEP. /jordan

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RE: Why I dislike Java. (was Re: "Scruffies" vs. "Neats")
by Pete Loshin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

E. Allen Smith wrote: > From: IN%"perry(a)piermont.com" 3-MAY-1996 16:49:35.61 > > >The users can't afford not to have the numbers they are watching not > >in front of them, even for brief periods. Its a real problem. > > Hmm.... has anyone ever created a specialized computer (or computer > running a specialized program) that would put multiple screens on the same > screen, perhaps with some GUI manipulation capabilities? If they're trying to > read Netscape material while watching the other numbers, they're then in the > exact same situation from their viewpoint. Actually, this is the kind of application that seems ideal for X-Windows. There are a lot more, but it has never really caught on in the PC world, which is a shame since it makes much more sense than many of the solutions people have come up with over the years. -Pete Loshin

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Re: Calling other code in Java applications and applets
by minow＠apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Marianne Mueller (mrm(a)netcom.com) writes that > >people need to be aware up front >that calling native code from a Java applet disables >any security that might otherwise be enforced for the applet. > Would it be more accurate to state that native code called by a Java applet disables Java virtual machine security, but is still bound by security policies enforced by the operating system itself? It would be most unfortunate if a browser run by an unprivileged user could attain "root" privileges by running a Java applet that called an appropriate (or inappropriate) native method. Of course, on inherently unprotected systems (PC's), there is indeed no protection. Perhaps Java will cause vendors to improve overall operating system robustness. Martin Minow minow(a)apple.com

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Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>1) Read as wide a variety of the stuff out there you can > (even the books by "dangerous crackpots"). >2) Take a vacation to a tax haven you like because of what > you've read about it. What tax havens would you like, if you did business in tax havens, which of course you do not ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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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Re: Kid Gloves or Megaphones
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"shamrock(a)netcom.com" 21-MAR-1996 21:29:06.87 >It is true that the issuer is unable to discover that double blinding is >being used. The real problem with the protocol is that it requires >payor/payee collusion, which may make it difficult to execute. Can the payee discover that the payor isn't colluding before the bank can figure out who the payee is? -Allen

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Why I Pay Too Much in Taxes
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:31 PM 5/4/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: >Not being prepared to risk imprisonment for tax evasion, and being desirous >of living in the United States rather than on a coral atoll, I answer the >questions that Macintax asks me, gulp when I see the final figure, and >write out a check (which I then have to sell even more stock to >cover...perpetuating the cycle). > >--Tim May The Transaction Records Clearinghouse has expanded their site on actual IRS criminal prosecutions into a neat table (for 1994) which shows: odds of referral (per million pop) 17 odds of conviction (per million pop) 8 odds of prison (per million pop) 4 # of referrals for prosecution 4,542 # convicted after prosecution 1,991 # sentenced to prison terms 957 population of federal district 260,340,990 http://www.trac.syr.edu/tracirs/analysis/IRS017tab.html For comparison, the annual risk of being murdered is about 80 per million (8 per 100,000). In addition, only 40% of the above refferals are for ordinary tax fraud and evasion. Sixty percent are for drug and money laundering kinds of offenses. Even though the population of those who regularly violate federal tax laws is smaller (20 million?) the records show that even for this population the odds of being convicted are approximately the odds of being nurdered. http://www.trac.syr.edu/tracirs/analysis/IRS019page.html Shows that the *median* prison sentence and *median* fine after conviction is Zero in both cases. DCF

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