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Prior Restraint
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"In a stunning rebuke to overzealous prosecutors," reports the New York-based National Coalition Against Censorship, the owner and manager of the store called simply Newstand, in Bellingham, Wash., have been found not guilty and awarded $1.3 million "for prior restraint and for retaliatory prosecution" by a U.S. District Court jury in Seattle. Ira Stohl and Kristina Hjelsand had been charged with obscenity for selling the controversial magazine "Answer Me!" a short-lived but legendary periodical that offered extremely politically incorrect articles about rape, among other subjects. The NCAC earlier reported the owners of Newstand rejected an offer from the prosecutor to drop criminal charges in return for a promise not to carry further issues of "Answer Me!" or "anything remotely similar." Instead, the freedom fighters displayed the magazine in their store, chained, under lock and key. The jury found that the troglodytes in charge of Whatcom County had violated Stohl and Hjelsand's First Amendment rights, caused emotional suffering, and damaged their business. Censorship News, the quarterly newsletter of the NCAC, is published out of 275 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10001, e-mail ncac(a)netcom.com, web page http://www.ncac.org. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin(a)lvrj.com. The web site for the Suprynowicz column is at http://www.nguworld.com/vindex/. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin(a)lvrj.com Voir Dire: A French term which means "jury stacking."

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Guns, Roses & Tobacco
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Meantime, taking their cue from the Tobacco Nazis, the city of Philadelphia is trying to figure out how to sue gun manufacturers for their crime rate -- 414 homicides last year, according to conservative gabmeister Rush Limbaugh. "Expect the arguments to focus on how unsafe guns are, the lack of warning labels, the lack of formal training programs, etc." ... rather than simply improve public safety by legalizing concealed "Vermont carry." The notion that gun manufacturers can be sued for manufacturing a faulty product is somewhat bizarre, of course, if the product (rather than blowing up in the user's hand, say) did precisely what it was intended to do. If America's socialist mayors and city councils are going to play this brand of roulette, at least the odds should be evened. Why don't the firearms manufacturers go ahead and offer to pay the municipalities, say, $500,000 for every innocent citizen killed by one of their products (except by the government's own police, of course) ... if the municipalities, in turn, will pay them $500,000 every time one of their weapons is used (by either police or commoner) to kill, wound, or drive away an intended rapist, robber, burglar or murderer ... or tax collector or other government agent acting in excess of his or her constitutionally delegated powers -- the main purpose for which the founders wanted to guarantee we had such instruments of liberty, in the first place. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin(a)lvrj.com. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin(a)lvrj.com Voir Dire: A French term which means "jury stacking."

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Re: Liability for Key Cracking in Idle Hours?
by Damien.Doligez＠inria.fr 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Damien may be able to tell us if Ecole Polytechnique has raised any >questions about his highly-publicized attack on the SSL Challenge key. Well, I asked for permission before I used the machines, so I don't expect any problem. (Actually, I asked for the permission, then launched the processes, then got the permission, but it doesn't make any difference, does it ? I should have also asked permission for putting their name in my announce, though.) It seems that the Herald Tribune called them about a cracker, and they refused to comment. They must have gone in paranoid mode, because they've had lots of trouble with student crackers in the past, and there is currently not even one student on the campus. But now, the situation seems to be in control, although I had no official contact from Ecole Polytechnique. Ecole Normale Superieure did not react at all. They're all on vacation anyway. By the way, "cypherpunks" keep getting mentioned in interviews with the press. I hope that's OK with you all. -- Damien

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NSA into antigravity?
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

this apparently involves credible researchers, and it's something that would be pretty bizarre if the NSA is really implicated.. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 18 Aug 95 18:04:09 -0700 From: Albert Nanomius <nanomius(a)netcom.com> - ------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:03:00 -0500 From: "chris (c.) currivan" <currivan(a)bnr.ca> To: snet-l(a)world.std.com Subject: NSA and science A post from alt.conspiracy: Francis E. Decstation <fed(a)cca.org> wrote: > >On July 19, Gerald Ollman and Robert Wayne, two researchers from the >University of Maryland geophysics department were detained in Fort Meade, >Maryland, apparently by agents of the National Security Agency, whilst >taking measurements of the Earth's gravitational field. After 18 hours of >questioning, they were released after being instructed not to discuss the >incident. Their equipment and results were not returned. > >Neither the University nor the NSA has commented on the incident. However, >it is believed that Ollman and Wayne were investigating a slight anomaly >in the Earth's gravitational field centered around Fort Meade. No reason has >been given for their detention.

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Makes the News! (Was Re: SSL Broken)
by Robert Zach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The first trade mag article I have seen on the Subject has been delivered to my doorstep!! Check out COMMUNICATIONS WEEK August 21 PAGE 1 FYI -Rob

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subscribing to cypherpunks
by ketcher＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lance Cottrell: Sandy Sandfort suggested I write to you about subscribing to cypherpunks. How can one do it? Thank you. Mike Ketcher

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interesting quote, Baltimore Sun 8/21
by Thomas M. Swiss 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Page 7A of today's _Baltimore Sun_ features an op-ed piece by Carl R. Eisendrath, "a former U.S. foreign-service officer", entitled "Bringing Light to Covert Operations", which cites an interesting quotation: "In the period between the two world wars, Secretary of War Henry Stimson closed the cryptography section of the State Department because, as he reputedly said, "Gentlemen don't read each other's mail." -Tom Swiss / tms(a)tis.com

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Re: Boylovers, NAMBLA, and Net-vigilantes, from The Netly News
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> > To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu > Subject: Boylovers, NAMBLA, and Net-vigilantes, from The Netly News > ----- > http://pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1222,00.html > It started in May, after Cox launched an assault on "boy-lover" > web sites in an attempt to force them offline. But she and her allies > ran into a serious obstacle: the sites aren't illegal. They're filled > not with child pornography -- which is banned by federal law -- but, > instead, photos of boys in swimsuits. "They shouldn't be doing these > things with the children's pictures," Cox says. ROTFLMAO! I checked out the "Sewer" site and followed the links. It seems that the threat of "boylover" porno on the Internet is so slight that dear Ms. Suques-Cox's list of "evil" sites is mostly links to the sites of child actors and actors-guild types of sites which are for the purpose of highlighting their careers, promote fan clubs, etc. In addition, she demands that these sights post (or email her) some type of "disclaimer" in order to be removed from her sewer list, despite the fact that the "dirt" seems to be entirely in her twisted little mind. No doubt Ms. Suques-Cox is raking in the dough in her efforts to "fight the good fight" against the demons in her mind, by projecting them into an outside threat to her world-view. I was thinking that perhaps I might be able to ride this fascist trend to the Big Buck$ by attacking web sites which contain perverted pictures of such things as cantalopes, cucumbers, valleys, caves, obleisks--pretty much anything that is longer than it is wide, or deeper than it is flat. TruthMonger

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Re: y2k problem *serious*
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ray Arachelian wrote: > Ah, so "Toto" is still with us (if only shadowed by the cloak work of the > lurker...) Ray, Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see you once again. I thought you were hiding. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing the tail of dogma. I opened my eye and there we were.... "Woof" <wag-wag> "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" http://bureau42.base.org/public/webworld "The Final Frontier" http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/carljohn

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Screw SAFE / Re: Majority in house support SAFE encryption bill, from SPAlert
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> MAJORITY IN HOUSE SUPPORT PASSAGE OF ENCRYPTION BILL > "On the other side of Capitol Hill, however, the > ghost of J. Edgar Hoover lurks in the cloakrooms of the Senate. Rather > than taking a courageous stand for America, some Senators would rather > follow the administration's play book, trading personal freedoms for what > they themselves admit is only marginal improvement." Screw SAFE, and screw the Senate. The Military-Industrial complex is switching their web network to utilize the tools developed by the free market. The reason is that the anal-retentive robots that they employee are incapable of producing products and services at the same level as those which are produced by free men. Let the fascist fucks in the Senate and at the DOD fiddle while D.C. burns. Let them fuck up the American crypto industry with Brave New Clipper Chips while free men in other countries develop the technology that will enable them to slip the Pentagon a cold, hard one up the butt and free us from the bulimic Senate swine. It's better that we should let foreigners with strong crypto take care of nuking D.C. for us. Perhaps this is what Clinton's Chinese campaign contributors have in mind. Perhaps the Chinese are actually the ones behind the scenes calling the shots in the Whithouse stand on opposing strong U.S.-developed encryption. No doubt foreign spies and terrorists are vocal supporters of the Whitehouse's stance on encryption and key escrow. (As are the money-grubbers who can't wait to take advantage of having access to corporate America's private communications.) I guess those who have given up their guns to those who oppose the Constitution should start taking some foreign language classes. TruthMonger

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