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Re: "Big [American] Brother" watches YOU
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Igor Chudov (ichudov(a)algebra.com) quotes Johm Markoff > But government officials disputed the idea that requiring > decoding technology would necessarily mean the technology > would be used. > ``There is nothing about putting this enabling technology > into law that will inevitably lead to it being turned on,'' > said Robert LITT [J?], a deputy assistant U.S. attorney in > the Justice Department's criminal division. ``From the > law-enforcement point of view, this is a better way to > provide for our public safety.'' In other news, Nazi Party officials disputed the idea that requiring all Jewish showers to be "gas chamber enabled" would necessarily mean that the technology would be used. "There is nothing about putting this enabling technology into law that will inevitably lead to it being turned on," said SS Obergruppenfurher Reinhard Freeh, a deputy assistant Reich Chancellor for Racial Hygiene. "From the National Socialist point of view, this is simply a better way to provide for our eugenic safety." -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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Re: Note to Net-lobbyists: give it up already, abandon Congress
by Antonomasia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan, > Message to Net-lobbyists: look at what happened when this time. Please > concentrate on blocking all crypto legislation, not trying to fix it. > (Yes, I realize you won't have anything do with crypto, won't "be a > player." Shucks.) The status quo, combined with the court challenges, is > not that bad. Would you like to post confirmation that this is not sarcasm ? -- ############################################################## # Antonomasia ant(a)notatla.demon.co.uk # # See http://www.notatla.demon.co.uk/ # ##############################################################

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Fuck ITAR in the EAR
by I Told You So 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello CoE cell mates, I notice Bubba, or was that TruthMonger, one of them anyway, has been ranting about stirring some shit for the GAKkers by exporting something from the US by way of Canada. I have it from a good source that it is perfectly legal to do this as there is a loop-whole in Candian law. But you have to do it in a particular way. Lets say you wish to export PGP from Canada. Your American accomplice emails you PGP. You write to the appropriate canadian department of export controls telling them: "I'm going to export PGP. I just imported it from the US. I am required by Canadian law to inform you in writing before I do this. Consider yourself informed". Post the letter. Then export PGP. (The amercian accomplice is optional, you can just import it yourself if you can find a US site which will give it to you with a domain of dev.null or sympatico.ca, should be doable, William Geigher's site has it for open download for instance.) Ok the wording above in quotes is important, if you _ask_ them for permission, they'll faff around and not give it to you. But the point is you _don't need their permission_ according to Canadian law, you're just supposed to inform them _before_ the export. So apparently there have been some very interesting crypto things exported this way. All that happens to the canadian person is that they receive a letter from the Canadian export control bods with much teeth gnashing and entreatments not to export, please. Guess this letter would be worthy of framing and hanging on the wall along beside Bubba Rom Dos portrait. Voila. Course that may not have the desired effect. If you want to cause more shit, do things in the wrong order. That is export it, then write them saying "I am required to inform you prior to export. I think this is stupid. I exported PGP last week. So arrest me." btw all these clear text Bcc's... not that I mind or anything, but I prefer PGP encrypted emails, that way the bubba rants etc provides nice cover traffic for my real nefarious purposes. You can `remail' the story if you like (I'm pretty sure it's good legal advice), if you remail, do it without my name on it. Kent Crispin

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key escrow B.S. "cure" for single point of failure
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The feds say that key escrow is not a single point of failure, because private keys will be split between arms of the bureaucracy, and an attacker would have to con three or more independent agencies or agents to gain access to a key. Now, running buffer overflows on three machines with dialup accounts paid for with stolen credit cards and hooked through the payphone in Cloyne hall seems just as easy as running buffer overflows on one. Single point may be worse than three points, but one and three seem almost the same when compared to 250,000,000. -THE LIE

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killing off the looming J. Edgar Hoover gorilla
by Attila T. Hun 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- the bottom line is simple: either 1. swamp the techno-ignorant fools with hollow traffic 2. wait and hope the courts have the balls to enforce the first and fourth amendments. civil disobedience, despite the Feds learning from the Chicago 7 trial that selective individual prosecution is more effective to strike terror in the hearts and souls of the 'deviants', needs to be organized at _all_ colleges and law firms, who unfortunately are at least as techno-illiterate as the members of Congress. Will Rogers summed it up: "circus? you want to go to the circus? Why? Congress is in session." however, living in the Intermountain Empire, I vote to secede from the totalitarian fools that claim they are governing a republic with our consent; or, in the immortal words of Thomas Jefferson "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without a rebellion." attila -- "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." --Benjamin Franklin ______________________________________________________________________ "attila" 1024/C20B6905/23 D0 FA 7F 6A 8F 60 66 BC AF AE 56 98 C0 D7 B0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQCVAwUBNBn7kL04kQrCC2kFAQE9PAQAx53t3ABfM4V72lraN+ax/IUAzM+n5FEw pw8p+p47veeP4IkKznYulAy4pTbJyBDTDTpLY6r15oGdM61Xj7cQuGdQ5sKVmY+q QIhQM8bXX1MTB/at+eQ9BZaoid1OjPsg10PJn9hq31vXNAyib8P0Bbe///4WWZcA kldwJQ7l4zM= =hxIf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 09:30:20 -0700 >To: jf_avon(a)citenet.net, cypherpunks(a)algebra.com >From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> >Subject: Re: Real issue of crypto controls: security or taxation loss? >Cc: e$(a)thumper.vmeng.com .... >Read the real list. > >As a comment, sometimes when I try to "reply to all" to these messages >from folks reading digests, I get "you are not a member of this list" or >"this is a private list" messages. > >Fine, but it's why I won't waste time on folks who may not even see what I >write unless I address it to them personally. > >JF, get a decent mailer and get on the real list if you want to participate. Indeed, as I expected, e-spam sent me this message: " Your message could not be processed because you are not a subscriber to the list. If you believe you received this message in error, you can contact the list administrator at: <Postmaster(a)vmeng.com>" There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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SSZ Move Downtime - Tuesday - Reminder
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Just a quick reminder that SSZ will be going down Tuesday morning and could be down for several hours. Please make appropriate plans for this outage. We will try to make it as quick as possible contingent upon SWBT getting both the POTS and ISDN installers on site within a reasonable time frame. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: The problem of playing politics with our constitutional rights (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 12:48:21 +0000 (GMT) > From: Doug Geiger <runexe(a)ntplx.net> > Subject: Re: The problem of playing politics with our constitutional rights > > Government is like the biggest company > > in the nation, with no profit pressure to restrain bureaucracy. > > I wonder what would happen if we created competition for the gov't. Say, > make each state compete with each other, attempting to 'sell' services > (roads, welfare, real estate, etc.) for the cheapest rates (taxes). That > might force the gov't to radically change. One might say that exists now, > as people can choose the state they're in. But what if the state were not > restricted to only 'selling' within state lines, and the federal gov't had > competition as well? A true capitialist-democrasy. > > Just some random thoughts. Not so random, since this is exactly what the founding fathers wanted until a bunch of bozo's went and created the 14th Amendment... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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In Defense of Libertarianism, from HotWired's Synapse (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:47:21 -0700 (PDT) > From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> > Subject: In Defense of Libertarianism, from HotWired's Synapse > Libertarianism is not about anarchy, utopia, or selfishness. Instead, > libertarians simply are skeptical of "nanny government," and recognize > the many ways state power has been abused in the past. They believe > that government programs like health assistance, Social Security, > foreign aid, and corporate welfare do more harm than good. They argue > that everyone must be equal before the law, and everyone has human > rights to personal security, to property, and to free speech that the > government must protect, not violate. If the Libertarians are so gung-ho on avoiding governmental (especialy federal) intervention in their lives why do they support the 14th Amendment? Why do they steadfastly stick to the position that the states should be forced to be homogenous in their laws under the federal government? It is clear that the founding fathers wanted the situation in the several states to be quite dynamic and diverse, otherwise why "Congress shall make no law..." and not something more comprehensive preventing the states from such laws as well? Why do they further not ask why the 9th and 10th are not fully respected and used by both the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government? No, the Libertarians have an agenda that is broader than simply reducing the intervention of government in our daily lives. They want a situation that provides them the upper hand, both politicaly and economicaly, while at the same time reducing the ability of their opponents to gain an advantage. From this perspective they are just another elephant or jackass... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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? Me?
by carolann＠censored.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What? Me? Write a Cypherpunks Press Release? Love Always, Alfreda E. Newman -- Member Internet Society - Certified BETSI Programmer - Webmistress *********************************************************************** Carol Anne Braddock (cab8) carolann(a)censored.org 206.42.112.96 My Homepage The Cyberdoc *********************************************************************** ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [017/713] ------------------- M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M MF=O0H+*%(-S%&>S%+FS&<LS%3(Q&#W1"<]2%`H^;,]^1C$'HBN8PX$4SYAU^ MPGD<Q0ZLA0D+,`MCT!LA**4M[-JPAK9F?40!AJ,CW"'%DR#:'9?Q)3[%<DQ` ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/

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