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Clinton signs draconian antipiracy law, from the Netly News
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

************ http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1641,00.html The Netly News Network (http://netlynews.com/) December 17, 1997 Penance for Pirates by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) When it comes to protecting his company's computer software, nobody compares with Bill Gates. Not only is the nation's richest man thumbing his nose at government antitrust lawyers, but he's also toasting his latest victory: a draconian antipiracy bill that President Clinton signed yesterday. Piloted through Congress by the deep pockets of the software, motion picture and recording industries, the law punishes unapproved "reproduction or distribution" of books, magazines, software, music or videos. The painful penalties must bring a smile to the face of software executives: fines of up to $250,000 and five years in federal prison. While you're cooling your heels in Club Fed, you'll have plenty of time to consider your misdeeds -- which in this case could have been making just three copies of Microsoft Office (cost: $360 each). If it's any consolation, you'll have plenty of company. Joining you will be anyone who "willfully" infringes copyrights worth at least $1,000 within a six-month period, with stiffer penalties if the total jumps to $2,500. Ouch. The cost of prosecuting millions of malfeasants has led critics to wonder, sensibly enough, if the FBI's time could be better spent chasing violent criminals. After all, software companies can (and do) sue copyright infringers already. "This is a dreadful piece of legislation," says David Post, a law professor at Temple University who teaches copyright law. "Congress is doing exactly what they shouldn't be doing: reacting in a panic and saying there's so much copyright infringement we need to throw people in jail." [...]

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RSA's New Contest -- Crack DES Faster, Faster, Faster!!
by Vin McLellan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

RSADSI today announced a new multiple-stage contest which will reward those who crack DES ciphertext more quickly than other contestants. See: http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/ "Our original DES Challenge showed DES was crackable using an exhaustive search attack," said Jim Bidzos, president of RSA. "Now the goal is to see how quickly an exhaustive search attack can be accomplished to help judge the true vulnerability of DES...." As the feds begin, ever so slowly, the process of selecting a replacement for DES, the RSA contest seem likely to both document and illustrate how quickly DES can be cracked. Bidzos, continuing his campaign to be nominated MAF (Most Admired Fellow) at Ft. Meade, announced that the first "DES Challenge II" contest would be launched at 9:00 AM (PST) -- just before the start of the annual RSA Data Security Conference in S.F. "The goal of each contest is not only to recover the secret key used to DES-encrypt a plain-text message, but to do so faster than previous winners in the series," explained an RSA press release. "As before, a cash prize will be awarded for the first correct entry received. Unlike previous contests, the amount of the prize will be based on how quickly the key is recovered. " RSA's T&Cs for DES Challenge II: "Twice a year, on January 13 and July 13, at 9:00 A.M. Pacific time, a new contest will be posted on the home page of RSA's Web site (http://www.rsa.com) "The contest will consist of the ciphertext produced by DES-encrypting some unknown plain-text message that has a fixed and known message header. The secret key will be generated at random and then destroyed within the contest-generating software so that no one, not even the contest administrators, will know what it is. "The first entrant to recover the key wins, but the amount of the prize will depend on how fast the key was recovered. "If the time required is less than or equal to 25 percent of the previous winner's time, the prize is $10,000. If the time is greater than 25 percent, but less than or equal to 50 percent of the previous winner's time, the prize is $5,000. Finally, if the time is greater than 50 percent, but less than or equal to 75 percent of the previous winner's time, the prize is $1,000. There is no prize for times greater than 75 percent of the previous winner's time. "The 'previous winner's' time that will be used for the first contest is 90 days." "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _ A thinking man's Creed for Crypto/ vbm. * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <vin(a)shore.net> * 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548

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InfoWar 666 / (Part III of 'The True Story of the InterNet')
by Human Gus-Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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InfoWar 666 / TEXT
by Human Gus-Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The True Story of the InterNet Part III InfoWar Final Frontier of the Digital Revolution Behind the ElectroMagnetic Curtain by TruthMonger <tm(a)dev.null> Copyright 1997 Pearl Publishing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWar Table of Contents * Pedagogue 666 * Pet A Dog 999 * Nobody Calls From CyberPromo Just To Say Hello ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedagogue 6OVERNMENT, 6ATES & 6OMEZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bianca sat silently, trying to compose herself before facing the children and bringing them up to date on the quickly changing situation surrounding an educational process which had been, up to now, mostly an exciting exercise in technological mystery and intrigue. Despite her inability to cover up the full depth of her current despair, the point became moot when she entered the room to find the girls all suppressing giggles, and the lone boy in the group sitting with his arms folded across his chest and grinning madly. Bianca turned her back for a moment, to suppress a genuine smile, and then turned once again to face the children, feigning an unsuspecting manner. "Can anyone tell me who Attila the Hun was?" Bianca asked, knowing that Human Gus-Peter might well wet his pants resisting his urge to raise his hand in order to get the opportunity to brag once again about one of his historic heroes. All of the girls raised their hands, giggling all the more over the Nephew's predicament. "Yes?" Bianca nodded toward Totokyo Rose. "Attila the Hun was the greatest MeatSpace Warrior who ever lived." Rose shouted, leaping to her feet and mimicking the ferocious grimace that the Nephew usually affected when speaking reverently about his favorite historical hero. Human Gus-Peter nodded thankfully to young Rose, who blushed at the realization that she had instinctively acted as a compatriot and co-conspirator to the secret admirer who loved to tease her so mercilessly (and vice-versa). Bianca thanked Rose as she sat down, and then began pacing back and forth slowly in front of the children. She gave a discrete wink to Rose as she strolled, alerting her that the next question would give her an opportunity to redeem herself as the Nephew's chief adversary among the young ladies who vied to torture him relentlessly for the sins of his forefathers, who had held their mothers in such low esteem in the fields of math and science. "And who is Attila T. Hun?" Bianca asked, referring to the boy's chief hero and mentor in the arena of CypherSpace Killosophy. The Nephew was bouncing up and down in his excitement, but he managed to keep his arms tightly folded across his chest, guarding the secret that he shared with the still giggling young girls. He smiled at Totokyo Rose as she raised her hand once again. "Yes, Rose." Bianca smiled. "Attila T. Hun is a CypherPunk who was exposed as a wannabe when Hallam-Baker revealed to the list that he was a sixteen year-old kid with an overactive imagination." Rose beamed. "Not! Not!!!" Human Gus-Peter leapt to his feet to defend his idol, dropping his arms and revealing the message that the youngsters had been busy stenciling on his T-shirt while Bianca had been engaged in deciphering her latest email messages. Bianca laughed as hard as the girls as the Nephew's impulsive reaction to Rose's teasing led to the revelation of the message newly emblazoned on his chest. "I GAK'ed my uncle's Secret Keys, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." Bianca chuckled inwardly, as she outwardly frowned and shook her head sadly. "I'm afraid I'm going to have to turn you over to the Tickle Gestapo." she said, breaking into a laugh as the Nephew's eyes grew wide in alarm and he bolted for the door with a gaggle of giggling girls close on his heels. She sighed with relief as the Battle Royal began in the snow outside, knowing that she would now have a bit of time to prepare for what she had to say to the children. As yet, however, she was not sure just what to say. Bianca went over the morning's events in her mind. Of all the mornings to sleep in Damn! The children had already been deeply engrossed in various computer exercises by the time she had shaken off the deep slumber of the previous night. It was sleep she desperately needed, but it had come at exactly the wrong time. She had woken up to find an urgent email message that had apparently arrived just as she was drifting off into never-never-land. From: GOD <god(a)everything.all> BCC: Dave Null <dnull(a)dev.null> Subject: "Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of the Void?" Dear Melissa's Great-Great-Grandmother, "David Jansen's dead, it's up to me to carry on." ~ The Last Canadian Outlaw "he's gone, man. he's gone" ~ Jerry T. Garcia "If you don't leave me alone, I'll find someone who will." ~ T. Gosney Thorton "For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect." ~ Ultramontane 4:14 Sincerely, God "Who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did." ~ Ultramontane 4:17 Bianca hadn't bothered to check the PGP signature on the message, knowing that the Author was the only person besides George Burns who could get away with forging messages from God without getting struck by lightning. The goDog had obviously gone to ground, with John Law's hounds nipping closely at his heels. Apparently, he believed that the Blind Faith Server at dev.null had been compromised, as well. When Bianca had logged on to pull the plug on it, however, all signs that it had ever existed had already been purged from one end of the InterNet to the other. Bianca got a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach, once again, as she realized that this was possible to do only through the Blind Faith Server itself, which meant that whoever had taken down dev.null had accessed the heart of the Circle of Eunuchs communications system, potentially putting everyone, including the children, in jeopardy. She rose angrily to her feet, angry at herself for having let the Author allay her initial fears about exposing the children to danger by allowing them to use the dev.null shadow email system. "In for a penny, in for a pound." he had said, nonchalantly. "Unless you are willing to put their bodies and minds in the hand of The Destroyer right now, you'd best give them the tools and knowledge to prevent it from happening later. "Besides, we are more likely to need those little scamps to pull our ass out of the fire than the other way around." he had continued, with a wink. Bianca was shaken out of her reverie by the entrance of the children, who were laughing and shaking the snow out of their hair and clothes. Except for the Nephew, who was holding his sides and grimacing in pain. "They have tic-killed me to death!" he said, dramatically, falling limp to the floor. Bianca motioned for the girls to gather around her on the floor, and they sat quietly until Human Gus-Peter peeked up to see that nobody was paying attention to him, whereupon he quietly joined them. Bianca began "I have something very serious to discuss with you." she began. Although we have had a lot of fun up to now, playing hide-and-seek with others and ourselves in CyberSpace, I have constantly reminded you that we must perform all of our actions as if the consequences could be deadly serious, for there would come a day in the future when this would become true for the past." "That day has finally arrived." Bianca said solemnly, worried that the children didn't seem to understand the gravity of what she was trying to tell them. She decided that a direct approach would be the best. "A number of members of the Magic Circle, including your uncle," she nodded to Human Gus-Peter, "have gone to ground like wounded foxes, holing up while waiting their chance to make a break for higher ground." "As well, I have received communications indicating that the Shadow has sniffed out the Blind Faith Server, and" she paused to change her voice to reflect the seriousness of the situation, "it appears that dev.null has been compromised." At this grave pronouncement, the children began giggling, and Totokyo Rose gave MustHang Sally a thinly veiled poke in the ribs. Bianca gave herself an inward slap on the forehead, stepped forward to hover menacingly over Sally, and asked sternly, "Is there something you would like to tell me, Sally?" "Nein, Herr Commandant! Nein, Nein!" was Sally's reply. The children broke into such a fit of sniggering and chortling at this point, that Bianca abandoned them to the Invisible Tickle Monster and headed to her computer to look for inevitable pointer to the ClueServer that the young archfiends would have left behind for her. Though the children had developed an amazingly intricate labyrinth of secret signs and messages by which they used to communicate a remarkable array of information ranging from technical information to mystical parables, they always gave their elders clues about as subtle as a fireball in the sky, apparently being under the impression that shortly beyond puberty lay senility. Bianca typed '999' into her computer and hit the return key, whereupon it turned out that the phrase had been aliased to a slow-running batch file which echoed its internal commands onto the screen as if lip-reading them with great difficulty: cd \666 pwd \6overnment6ates6omez\Pedagogue cd .\999 pwd \Munition$Monger$Madman$\Petadog cat goDog.niYang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pet A Dog 999 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Johnny can't addneither can his dadY2K is coming, and it's going to be mad." ~ Little Orphan Annie, CypherKid Cult of One "Follow the Money, honey." ~ SlutSally, CypherKid Cult of One "I'm here from the IRS, and I'm here to ring your Bell." ~ Robyn Steele, CypherKid Cult of One "Gun$ get you money$ Money$ get you gun$ Billy runs window$, but window$ don't run." ~ Human Gus-Peter, Grand Pooh-Bah of the CypherUniverse of One "The Citizen as a Decimal" A Theorem by Martha MathMonster Government = Power Corporate = Money Money = Power Government + Corporate = Fascism Statism = Standardization (Government + Statism) = (Corporate + Standardization) Unitary Theory of Fascist Statism: If Government and Corporate interests become a Unity then Decimals become insignificant dots. Therefore, under Fascism, the citizen is no longer a citizen-unit, but a Decimal. The Revelation of SaintMonger LanniTastic the Divine (In Bed) 13:16 "He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a digitally implanted Persistent Identity $$N in their right hand or on their foreheads." 13:17 "and that no one may buy or sell except one who has a PI-$$N or traceable Bea$tCa$h, or a Digital Certificate authorized by the Bea$t." 13:18 "Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the Bea$t (keeping in mind that Micro$haft Money has a Millennium Bug in it that gives a result that is different from one returned by the more spiritually-correct Quickening $oftware), for it is the number of a ManBoy: His number is GGG." "Standardization is the Opiate of the Masses. ~ Saint Ishtar of Linux, CypherKid Prophetess of One "That's not a dry-cleaning bag, Linus. It's your new security blanket. If it saves the life of a single child" ~ BadLucy, CypherKid Government Regulator of One CypherKid Reminder To Senile Old Farts Wearing Their Ties Too Tight And Cutting Off The Blood Blow To Their Brain: The worse the Y2K problem is, the easier you can steal. The worse the Y2K problem is, the harder it will be for the government to steal. The worse the Y2K problem is, the more intelligence and initiative will evolve. The worse the Y2K problem, the faster the dinosaurs die. Ad infinituum And You're Trying To FIX The Problem? CypherPunks Write Code! CypherKids Circulate Code! InfoWarez! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nobody Calls From CyberPromo Just To Say Hello ~ by grandson of gomez "His Login is Mammon, His Password is Ca$h, When Time Changes Essence, His $oftware will Crash!" "Except ye be as a little child" "Those who are not busy living, are busy dying" "If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem" "We have met the cliché, and it is you" "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming" "Teach your children well" The Alaska Highway Was a Roman Road! When 6omez is Fuhrer, the email will run on time! Highways are for moving troops forth and goods back. The Information Highway was designed to move digital government troops forth and digital currency back! Are YOU An Information Nazi? The History of InfoNumbers Numbers were made for counting. Counting was made for keeping track of InfoNumbers are made for accounting purposes. FRESH FROM THE CLUESERVER!!! Unencumbered knowledge is freedom to evolve. Encumbered knowledge is captivity in statist prisons. Numbers are not Knowledge. Numbers are Statistics. Humans need knowledge. Machines need numbers. "The Medium is the Message" Quake is fractal. Quicken is linear. The eyes are the gateway to the soul. Biometrics captures your soul. InfoNumbers are Information. Information is not InfoNumbers. Who Needs Traceable, Encumbered Information? Information Nazis. Information Census Takers. Information Tax Collectors. Information Gestapo. Information Jailers. Information Executioners. Jews For Just-Us Protection Society: Biometric Identification to protect only Jewish children. Biometric Identification to protect only Jewish financial transactions. "We're from the government and we're here to Biometrically Identify you in order to help you." [Disclaimer: Jews For Just-Us Protection Society is a fully licensed charitable subsidiary of the Yellow Star Biometrics Corporation, a Division of Auschwitz Cattle-Car Manufacturing, Inc.] Who controls the Shadow Government? The Shadow! Anti-Christ Anti-Chri$t Anti-Chris$$t Anti-Chri$$$t Anti-Chri$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$t Who knows what currency lurks in the bank accounts of men? The Shadow knows! Numbers are for counting. Counting is for accounting. Numbers can be held accountable. Are you a number? Passenger Manifesto / Cattle-Car #17 / Departing at 4:54 a.m. 054-38-2961 293-82-9764 429-67-8342 "Save a Jew. Encrypt a Number!" Humans need information to survive. Governments need controlled information to survive. Humans need mobility to survive. Governments need statism to survive. Humans need physical identity to survive. Governments need physical identification to survive. Humans need emotion to survive. Governments need obedience to survive. Humans need soul to survive. Governments need InfoNumbers to survive. Humans need spirit to survive. Governments need control to survive. InfoWarriors blow bridges out from under the troop trains on the Information Highway. InfoWarriors route around armed checkpoints on the Information Highway. InfoWarriors infiltrate enemy camps on the Information Highway. InfoWarriors wreck or confiscate enemy munitions on the Information Highway. InfoWarriors generate their own numbers. Church of PGP / Campfire Songs "I don't care if it rains or freezes, As long as I've got my CryptoJesus, Sitting on the laptop on my desk. "Threatening PRES, but he can't floor me, As long as PRZ don't backdoor me, Giving out my cleartext to the Feds." "I turned my children over to the government, and all I got was this digital implant" Humanity needs children, to survive. Fascism needs *your* children, to survive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Teach your children well" ~Crosby, Stills, Nash & Bianca ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" "InfoWar (Part III of 'The True Story of the InterNet') Soviet Union Sickle of Eunuchs Secret WebSite ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: SC rules 1st doesn't cover lies [CNN] (fwd)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>So you have to be an employee of the government to be a citizen? Yes. Welcome to America, Land of the Freeh.

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Re: Clinton signs draconian antipiracy law, from the Netly News
by Rose Aguilar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >Just what is the meaning of "Willful" in this context? > We asked Rep. Goodlatte that question in today's 1:00 CNET Radio show. I would paraphrase his answer, but it's a 10 minute interview so check it out. http://www.radio.com/ -Rose CNET Radio Reporter/Producer 150 Chestnut St. San Francisco, CA 94111 415/395-7800 X 1227 Fax: 415/395-7815 http://www.radio.com/

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Supplement to DoJ Seizure Guide
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There's a long October 1997 supplement to the 1994 DoJ Guide to Search and Seizure of Computers for which Jim Choate posted the TOC just now. It reflects recent campaigns, raids and counterattacks as the battle for supremacy between law and technology intensifies and both sides search and seize each's best and worst: http://jya.com/doj-ssgsup.htm (100K)

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Warez 1
by Human Gus-Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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OTP
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Tim C[ocksucker] May's abysmal grammar, atrocious spelling and feeble >responses clearly identify him as a product of the American education system. > > 0 > //\/ Tim C[ocksucker] May > \/\ > ... / Ouch! Claiming he came from the American education system and bought the bullshit they feed their students? That's the worst insult I've heard in weeks! And no this isn't sarcasm.

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Can I do Pubkic Domain that -
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Can I do Pubkic Domain that I posted MISTY source code before? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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