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Michael Moriarity in _Penthouse_ on Law Enforcer Power Expansion
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "Clay Irving" <clay(a)panix.com> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 07:36:47 -0500 To: sea-list(a)panix.com Subject: (Fwd) Michael Moriarity in _Penthousse_ Mime-Version: 1.0 Thought I'd pass this along -- It was in my mailbox this morning... --- Forwarded mail from "Linda Thompson, American Justice Federation" <iquest.net!lindat> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 95 02:52 EST To: news(a)aen.org From: lindat(a)iquest.net (Linda Thompson, American Justice Federation) Subject: Michael Moriarity in _Penthousse_ In the "Special 26th Anniversary Issue -- Collector's Edition" of _Penthouse_, Michael Moriarity wrote the "Advise & Dissent" feature. The cover tickler reads: "Michael Moriarity -- Charging Janet Reno with Genocide" TREES FOR ALL THE DEAD CHILDREN by Michael Moriarity [The author is an Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe award-winning actor. He is also an accomplished classical and jazz pianist-composer, with three CDs in release and another about to be recorded.] _A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them for a century._ Montesquieu I am sitting in a sidewalk cafe in Canada at the moment. I am here because I can no longer live in the United States of America. The nation my father knew as a surgeon for the Detroit Police Department and the country in which my grandfather built a 50-year professional baseball career has become a nightmare of lies, propaganda, and vicious disinformation pouring out of Washington, D.C. Today, the F.B.I. and Janet Reno are asking for new legislation that would permit them to investigate anyone for simply opposing their ideas of what causes violence. I protested the attorney general's initial assault on network television during her back-room meetings with NBC executives. "What are we talking about here?" asked Dick Wolf, executive producer of "Law and Order." "Federally controlled programming between the hours of three and six?" "How about three to nine." Janet Reno said that without a question mark. It was not a request. It seemed to her a foregone conclusion. She had the right to say the most insane thing I've heard from a reasonably well-dressed person, let alone the highest law-enforcement officer in the land. she claimed that the mere words of a murder-mystery TV show were dangerous to the health of the nation. I simply asked that she be relieved of her post and sent on a long vacation and given therapy. Who left their jobs instead? Philip Heymann, her respected deputy, and yours truly. Resignations in protest. Now she and her Justice Department -- and even more recently, Bob Dole, the next frighteningly viable candidate for president of the United States -- would like to brand all artists and producers dealing with dramatizes violence and sex as accessories to drive-by shootings, terrorist bombings, and the moral degeneration of our nation. And she's hoping that people like me and Rush Limbaugh, and anyone who makes fun of her, like David Letterman, will be counted by the American public as accessories to the bombing in Oklahoma. Did Al Capone really learn everything he knew from George Raft? Was the death of Christopher Marlowe a product of the fight scenes in William Shakespeare's _Romeo and Juliet_? Blaming violent drama for real-life violence is like indicting _Penthouse_ for the spread of AIDS. Until I left my country, I was living in a novel by Franz Kafka, with characters like the real Elie Wiesel telling me, "It's not possible, Michael. This is America." They told Elie and his family the same thing in Europe, just before they carted him off to Auschwitz. "It's not possible, Elie. This is Germany." How far is Janet Reno willing to go in her definition of what is causing violence? "I know 'Murder She Wrote' has no violent images," said the attorney general, "but they talk about nothing but violence." What does this mean? Does she charge that Jessica Fletcher was an agent provocateur for Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing? Has Angela Lansbury been derelict in her concern for the children? Was Reno's fear of language, this frontal assault on the entire meaning of the First Amendment, merely a lapse in the attorney general's thinking process? As "kooky" and as "noisy" and as "paranoid" as I am accused of being, I have never put together a sentence quite that sick. Where was the reaction from the Fourth Estate, the one branch of our democratic process that is sworn, above all, to uphold our freedom of speech? Today, unfortunately, the media is a direct extension of the two-party system, and now that the Republicans and Democrats are a coalition dedicated to expanding federal law-enforcement armies exponentially, there is little protest from the pundits. A coalition in a two-party democracy is not an option. It is tyranny. Since mainstream American journalism is either Republican or Democratic, we now hear no outcry (although _The New York Times_ did quote one "law-enforcement official at the Treasury Department .. who spoke on condition that he not be named, [who] said there was a tremendous potential for abuse in some of the recent F.B.I. proposals to relax the standards for investigating suspected terrorists"). Speaking out publicly would risk careers, and if anything is at fault for the disastrous situation we are in, it is a mad obsession with career. Read John Dean's _Blind Ambition_ if you don't believe me. My role in the miniseries "Holocaust" -- that of the Nazi lawyer Eric Dorf -- was inspired by the idea that if Watergate's John Dean were a German professional in the 1930s and less sensitive to his own corruption, he would have risen to the very top of the Third Reich. With no strong feelings, apart from an obsession with his own career, such a man would find himself standing proudly at the side of Adolf Hitler. "Free speech," the Justice Department seems to be saying, "is the root cause of all violence." Has anyone been fired for such a tyrannical notion? No, but Jocelyn Elders was dismissed for broaching the possibility that our drug laws should be reexamined, and for speaking honestly about AIDS and condoms and children. I began my campaign fighting the drug laws. I'm right back to those statutes as the main cause of domestic violence in America. Only this time the violence is not the drive-by shootings in ghettos. It is the speed with which our law enforcement has been destroyed from within by its own increasing power. The F.B.I. will be given almost absolute power to harass and wiretap and investigate any opponent of the standing government. The drug laws and now, so conveniently, the Oklahoma City bombing are the linchpins for billions of dollars pouring into the American law-enforcement community. Their increasing freedom to hassle suspected anti-big-government agitators must not be threatened. Will it work? Not if this nation sees the tapes called _Waco: The Big Lie_, a two-part examination of the murder of the Branch Davidians. This video, which Gary Null wrote about in _Penthouse_ this past April, is all over the country now, and more and more people will see it despite how Janet Reno, the F.B.I., and the leadership of both parties try to misinform the public about the tapes and their maker, Linda Thompson. The obvious questions raised by Thompson's analysis of government-approved violence are damning to the F.B.I., the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Janet Reno, and all other parties accessory to the obvious cover-up. They show hard evidence of a government lynch mob at Waco. If the Rodney King tapes won him $2 million, the implications of _Waco: The Big Lie_ could win the surviving Branch Davidians tens and possibly hundreds of millions from the government, criminal charges against perpetrators, and the downfall of major careerists in the current administration. Now, with the help of her spokesmen, who just happen to be President Clinton and Bob Dole, possibly the next occupant of the White House, Janet Reno is trying to convince America that her enemies are just as bad as her own army. They can't be worse. Try as she may, she knows that history cannot draw the bombers of children as any worse than the burners of children. Washington, D.C., is saying that there is a difference between the children of Waco and the children of Oklahoma City. The deaths in Oklahoma warrant capital punishment. "Swift and severe punishment," was the fate the president and attorney general promised for the killers of federal employees. Since the F.B.I., the C.I.A., A.T.F., and other arms of federal law enforcement have been gutting the Bill of Rights for years, such threats are not unlike the reprisals announced in Germany following the Reichstag fire. What about the death of civilians? Not only does Reno not call for capital punishment for the incineration of the Waco children and the equally cold-blooded murders in Idaho of survivalist Randy Weaver's wife and child by federal agents, her response to these crimes doesn't even merit the term _pursuit of justice_. And any movement that calls for such justice, like Linda Thompson's American Justice Federation, is branded "fanatic." Who has more blood on their hands? Network television or federal law enforcement? Until justice befalls the Justice Department, a tree must be planted for all the children of violence ... including the children of Waco. "Peace is not the absence of war," said one letter written to me while I was performing in the television series "Law and Order." "It is the presence of Just." ---End of forwarded mail from "Linda Thompson, American Justice Federation" <iquest.net!lindat> -- .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ -/--Clay Irving-N2VKG-(clay(a)panix.com)-\---/---\-----/-----\-------/-------\-- http://www.panix.com/clay `-' `-' \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-'

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Re: Searchable Crypto Paper Archive?
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:48 PM 9/6/95, David J. Bianco wrote: >I was trying to dig up some cryptography papers cited as references >today, when a thought hit me; there seem to be a fair amount of crypto >papers available on the Net, but they're pretty scattered. Bell Labs >has some online, which is great! The cypherpunks FTP archive has a >few, though you can't perform keyword searches against them. In >short, it's hard to find papers unless you already know what you want >and where it might be. > >Having had some experience in designing and implementing technical >report retrieval services, I naturally think there's room for >improvement here. 8-) What I have in mind is something like NASA's >NTRS ("NASA Technical Report Server", ><http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/NTRS>), which I helped >design and implement at my last job. It's an idea with some attraction. But some issues need discussing. Being an analytical sort of person, prone to looking for flaws in ideas, I'll mention a few: 1. First and foremost, _copyright_ issues. Most articles are copyrighted (automatically, by Berne Convention) and the permission of the authors must be obtained. Authors may also collect royalties, or the conferences may, so unlimited electronic distribution is a potential problem. NASA can publish its reports (and those of other government agencies) electronically because it has the copyrights, or the copyrights are free and clear. Try putting someone's article on the Net without their permission and look out. Indeed, there are a couple of the most important papers on the soda archive site, some of them scanned-in and OCRed by "The Information Liberation Front." There are so few that the authors likely don't even know they are there, or care. But try to put lots of copyrighted material on a site and get ready for actions. Remember, most nations are party to the Berne Convention(s). 2. Many of the papers have complex typography, lots of equations and diagrams. These reproduce poorly on most screens, and really need a new level of display presentation. (Yes, I know about Adobe Acrobat, which I have. Ditto for FrameMaker, and a few other such systems. But not many others have them.) I happen to know the ILF member who posted the Chaum "Dining Cryptographers" paper, anonymously, and know that he picked that paper both because of its importance to his interests and because it was pure text, with no equations and no diagrams. This made it a natural for scanning. 3. In the crypto domain, the papers are much more conveniently concentrated into a handful of conference proceedings, nearly all published by Springer-Verlag. (Those great silvery-grey paperbacks.) This point about Springer-Verlag relates to Item #1 above. Namely, that copyright holders (Springer-Verlag, through publishing arrangements with the conferences) will not take kindly to folks making the papers available electronically. This point, about the limited number of main crypto volumes, also implies another point: many of these papers refer to other papers in the same volume or set of volumes (e.g., papers in the "Crypto '93 Proceedings" will refer to papers in that volume or earlier volumes). This makes it *even more advantageous* for a serious researcher to buy the complete set of volumes. 4. Authentication issues. Electronic versions of articles will need to be signed, to prevent unauthorized modifications. The infrastructure for this is beginning to build, but is clearly not available to many. I am confident that someday most journals will be published electronically. Many people think this likely, whether in 5 years or 15 years. Just too many advantages. However--and this is my point--before that happens a huge amount of negotiation about author's rights to reproduction, about verification of copies, about royalty payments for copies, etc., has to happen. And, the display software/hardware is not quite there yet....too many people would be unable to see the equations and diagrams on the screen. In 5 years, less of a problem. Many authors make their papers available by anonymous ftp, or via the Web. I think this is the way to do it: let those who feel their papers need electronic dissemination do so. The author makes the choice. In summary, this project is probably premature (technologically), has numerous copyright issues to be resolved, and is probably less needed in the crypto community than in some other areas. (Granted, we are not following those other areas, necessarily. But that other domains have not yet gone fully electronic is indicative that others see some of these same problems, and are likely to address them before the math/crypto community does.) Sorry to dissect this proposal so thoroughly, but it's one of the things I do. --Tim May (P.S. The copyright problems can possibly be skirted by using anonymous remailers and offshore data havens in jurisdictions that will not raid the sites, or by message pools. But these are major steps, mostly untested. A "Scientology" site is probably a better test than a site with crypto papers. I wouldn't want to run either of them.) ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Searchable Crypto Paper Archive?
by David J. Bianco 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sep 6, 12:32, Adam Shostack sent the following to the NSA's mail archives: > Subject: Re: Searchable Crypto Paper Archive? || | Anyway, this is what I'd like to see. I'm willing to work on such a || | system if there's enough positive feedback. Does anyone else think || | they'd like to use or contribute to such a system? || | || || I think this would be a fabulously useful service, one which I'd be || glad to subscribe to as an amateur. (I could see forking over $20-50 || for search priority, possibly more if it was really well done). || Ack! Money involved? "Just say no!" 8-) When I said "contribute" I meant placing papers in it, or if you've got a lot already, adding your own database to the list of possible search sites. I wanna do this as a free service. There are several reasons (like I can't see charging people for information that I didn't even produce), but the real reason for doing it is simple: I wanna use it. I made a mock up of CTRS, which is available at: http://www.itribe.net/CTRS/ https://www.itribe.net/CTRS/ (of course we have to offer SSL 8-) There aren't any crypto papers in it yet, though. The iTRiBE database (the only one available for searching right now) is filled with some NASA test data. Try doing searches on things like "ratio" or "nasa" for an example of the output you'd get. || || Don't forget the value of sci.crypt[.research] and cypherpunks || postings, nor of crypto 'rump session' papers. I admit I hadn't thought of these. I'm not sure I could sign up for the task of archiving the newsgroups (disk space) but if the authors/copyright holders of rump papers want to submit them, I'd be happy to index them. I don't think the database necessarily has to be composed only of referreed papers or anything. I'd be happy to index rump papers, technical reports or maybe even presentation materials like postscript copies of overhead transparencies. Anyway, thanks for the reply! -- ========================================================================== David J. Bianco | Web Wonders, Online Oddities, Cool Stuff iTribe, Inc. | Suite 1700, World Trade Center | email: <bianco(a)itribe.net> Norfolk, VA 23510 | URL : http://www.itribe.net/~bianco/

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Re: Searchable Crypto Paper Archive?
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:45 PM 9/6/95, David J. Bianco wrote: >S'ok with me. It's not like I'm dead set on doing this or anything. It's >just an observation, and an offer of service if anyone thinks it'd be >useful. > >Oh, BTW, another thing I probably should mention that seems obvious to me: > I'm offering to do this for free. That is, the database would be a public >service, with no charge to list papers, add another database to the >searching list or to query/retrieve abstracts. I'll look forward to seeing this, then. I was just noting some issues which seem likely to arise. But if you plan to do this "if anyone thinks it's be useful," then I think it would be useful, so you've met your criterion for doing the project. Good luck! Keep us posted. --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Symbols on the net :)
by Steven Calabro 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If you know of any symbols or acronyms used on the net, please mail them to me. Thanks

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cryptography eliminates lawyers?
by Cortland D. Starrett 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As a follow-up to the article reference I posted, I pose the following question: Will cryptographic technology and information (communication) technology reduce the need for legal services in the future? (especially regarding contracts, buying/selling, patent law, etc.) Will legal services just look different? Will they be more efficient (cheaper)? Put bluntly, will cryptography put lawyers out of business? Any comments would be appreciated. Cort.

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Re: Growth of actions definded as crime. Which math formula?
by alt＠iquest.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:00 AM 9/6/95 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote: >Created crimes are few and far between. You mean like buying a 30 round magazine, or putting a different stock of your choice on a rifle, or owning an automatic weapon, or mailing crypto out of the country, or hiring someone due to their race, or not hiring someone because they are "fat?"

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Re: Growth of actions definded as crime. Which math formula?
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:32 PM 9/6/95, Al Thompson wrote: >At 02:00 AM 9/6/95 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote: > >>Created crimes are few and far between. > >You mean like buying a 30 round magazine, or putting a different >stock of your choice on a rifle, or owning an automatic weapon, >or mailing crypto out of the country, or hiring someone due to their >race, or not hiring someone because they are "fat?" Or drinking alcohol, or owning gold, or possessing a copy of a Traci Lords video, or selling bullets recently declared illegal, or having a "men only" gym (but "women only" gyms are legal), or making condoms available, or not making condoms available, or teaching women how to use birth control, or denying a Satanist a job at a child care center on the basis of his religious beliefs, and so on. Too many transient, created crimes. To answer Lucky's original question, one way to measure the total number of new laws--most of them covering "created crimes"--is to measure the total number of volumes of statutes at the Federal, state, and local levels. I've seen figures on the "linear feet" of regulations, and how they are growing exponentially, but I don't recall the numbers. Something like the total number of laws doubling every 10 years or so, but don't quote me on this one. Whether these are "created crimes" in most cases is unclear, but certainly the really basic crimes (murder, assault, rape, theft, etc.) were adequately covered 20 years ago, or 50 years ago, etc. I can see some reasons for refining the definitions in the light of new situations, but I have to conclude that _most_ of the vast number of new laws and statutes deal with "created crimes," as I understand the term. --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Collection of personal info
by David Neal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I sent this to the risks moderator some time back, but I guess he didn't like it. For those of you who think that perhaps people advocating cybercash are just a bunch of paranoid lunatics. -------------- As advertised in the trade magazine "DM News" (Direct Marketing News), Apr. 24, 1997, V. 17 N. 16. I've typed the entire text of the advertisement, any typos are mine. >From the huge number of people in the database, it would seem that TRW is now marketing a subset of their credit records they keep on everyone. Does anyone else remember the flap over Lotus' product (Magellan) that was going to allow something similar? The risks? This is the perfect database if you want to red-line your offerings. I'm sure others will have more creative answers. -------------- TRW DISCOVERED Some very smart people are uncovering exciting ways to increase response rates, find profitable customers, and develop new market niches. It's been a well kept secret. Now it's out. It's TRW. It all started with the search for more creative information solutions. Solutions that help you discover hidden markets and unique ways of using ordinary data to target qualified prospects. The result: a proven and massive database in the hands of people with real data management know-how. So far the findings have revealed: o A database of 170+ million consumers o 100+ demographic, psychographic and geographic selects o A full range of computer services. o Comprehensive motor vehicle data >From this comes an array of products and services to intrigue even the most seasoned direct marketer. One of these is called the TRW Smart Targeting Tools (SM). It links 98 million households with the goods and services they are most likely to buy. Choose consumer names by 50 neighborhood or 3600 household level clusters, by 56 broad product categories or by 516 specific product or brand preferences. Looking at all the advantages, TRW may be the direct marketer's find of this century. And the next. Energize your marketing. Contact your TRW representative or call 800.527.3933 Ext 640. You have a great find ahead of you. TRW Target Marketing Services Your one source for reaching all the right people. 701 TRW Parkway Allen, TX 75002-3717 800.527.3933 David Neal <dneal(a)usis.com> - GNU Planet Aerospace 1-800-PLN-8-GNU Unix, Sybase and Networking consultant. "...you have a personal responsibility to be pro-active in the defense of your own civil liberties." - S. McCandlish

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Re: Scientology and police visit XS4ALL Amsterdam
by cg＠bofh.lake.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > This is the second or third time I've seen descriptions of such > raids where cult (no, I'm not trying to be diplomatic) > representatives were present and participating. Is this legal in > Amsterdam? How about in the U.S.? Britain? > Probably. Amsterdam isn't exactly the wild west, and they didn't take the computer equipment with them, they just inventoried everything so to have something to sell when their claims prove valid. Which I doubt (shit, I will be moving to this country in a couple of weeks...) > If a police officer has a warrant then I really don't have much > choice about letting him in. Am I also under an obligation to > allow the people who filed for the warrant into my home or > business? > I don't know whether this is valid. I assume so. I also think it is about time we develop some ideas about anonymous web publishing. Probably some chained cgi scripts could do, but how to get around traffic analysis? -- Cees de Groot, OpenLink Software <cg(a)bofh.lake.de> 262ui/2048: ID=4F018825 FP=5653C0DDECE4359D FFDDB8F7A7970789 [Key on servers] http://www.lake.de/sonst/homepages/s2449/index.html

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