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by 11471..201＠compusub.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is your free issue of the Global Media and Corporate Relations newsletter. In order to continue to receive the GMCR News you must reserve your place in our news server by one of the methods below. If this newsletter has reached your mailbox in error, do nothing and you will receive no further contact. Visit http://www.corporaterelations.com and sign in to reserve your place in our news server. or Email to gmcr-list(a)corporaterelations.com ; include the words 'join gmcr-news' in the body of the message. GLOBAL MEDIA AND CORPORATE RELATIONS NEWS GMCR is dedicated to bringing you the most timely critical investment information about new issues, IPO's, small cap stocks and special opportunities that simply cannot be found elsewhere. All of the investment opportunities presented here are thoroughly screened by our experienced team of investment professionals. Each of our client companies has undergone a stringent due diligence process to insure that the investment potential is a bona fide GMCR opportunity. One Asian Tiger Roars as the Others Roll Over and Play Dead For the first half of 1998, U.S. electronics exports to Asia dropped 12% in the face of various economic crises and currency devaluations in the Pacific Rim that saw country economies falling like dominos. The culprits: Indonesian imports down 64%, Korean down 37%, Thai down 26%, and Japanese imports down 14%. So how did the U.S. semiconductor manufacturers fair overall? Total semiconductor sales worldwide were only down .38% because Eastern Europe, Mexico, Canada and China increased their purchases at the expense of their Asian counterparts. China, one of the Asian Tigers, escaped the crisis conditions unscathed, actually increasing their imports of U.S. semiconductor products by 50% during the first half of this year according to industry sources. China's tight control over its currency allowed it to escape the problems that slashed fifty cents on the dollar out of the other Asian Tiger currencies. While the other countries worried about currency devaluations and layoffs in industry, China quietly ramped up production in their three "golden" markets: telecommunication, consumer electronics and home appliances grabbing market share along the way. FEATURED COMPANY Our feature company this month is Micronics International, Inc (OTC:BB MCIK). Micronics International (MCIK) has been undervalued with the recent Asian crisis driving stocks lower. Timing is right for Micronics International (MCIK) to rocket upward propelled by a burgeoning Chinese semiconductor market. Their current mission is to take advantage of the large Chinese government incentives to moev electronic manufacturing from the coast to the interior of the country. Micronics is locating their new offices in the heart of these new centers of industry. The company will be perfectly positioned for a buy-out or merger with a larger U.S. semiconductor distributor looking for an established marketing channel into China, soon to be the worlds' biggest market for semiconductor products. Micronics (MCIK) is the Second Largest U.S. Distributor of semiconductors into the Chinese telecommunications, consumer electronics and home appliance manufacturing sectors. The company has established both close relationships with the government and permanent offices within their borders. The Chinese must import 94% of integrated circuit needs and their buying has INCREASED 50% during the Asian Crisis! Micronics (MCIK) is rocketing upward because: * The 1998 Chinese import market for chips? Over six billion units. * First half of 1998 showed a 50% increase in U.S. semiconductor imports into China, 10% higher than was predicted by industry insiders. * Industry forecasts for semiconductor sales: $120 billion 2005, $550 billion 2010, World's largest market by 2015. * A $50 billion plus semiconductor market in China is projected to grow at a 40% rate the next seven years! * The semiconductor market has grown steadily, 25% per year, for the last ten years in lockstep with increased U.S. imports into China! * Over 60 years of combined semiconductor marketing experience among the Micronics officers. * Micronics has excellent government and local factory contacts in China through a professional sales force. * The low cost provider to the market through strategic purchases of key stocks. * Long term relationships with U.S. proprietary chip manufacturers and smaller U.S. distributors focusing on telecommunications, computers and energy conservation, Micronics' key markets. * The U.S. semiconductor companies have a solid 10% of the China market * Very few American distributors are willing and able to crack the China distribution market. The only competitor of note is Arrow Electronics who does approximately $120 million in sales a year in China. * Many U.S. companies want in China, Micronics is positioned as a possible acquisition or marketing channel.

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RE: Two Jims, Werner and Matt redefine socialism for their own en ds
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Matthew James Gering[SMTP:mgering@ecosystems.net] replied to a long > rant, as by "Martinus Luther": > >> something like Belloc and Chesterton's "distributivism". > Distribute what and created by whom? Need I point out the > obvious fallacy that wealth is a static sum. It is not, wealth > must be *created* before it exists to plunder and share. Every libertarian or cypherpunk ought to have read "The Servile State" by Hilaire Belloc. It is long polemic against socialism (or what Belloc thought was Socialism), the welfare state & so on. Your ranter obviously hads read the book, and in that context what is being distributed is *land*, as private property to be lived on, farmed and passed on to children. > Abstract wealth and divorce it from the creator and you > eliminate the motive to create. You can only live from plundered > wealth so long before you slip into oblivion (see the Soviet Union). I think Belloc would agree with you 100%. See http://www.cs.wesleyan.edu/HTML/Grad_links/mdemarco/gkc/distrib/ for links to pages on Distributivism. Distributivism is usually regarded as a right-wing, conservative political philosophy. Chesterton and Belloc didn't invent it but they popularised it. It derived partly from a distaste for the State, industry, trade unions and the modern world in general; partly from an admiration of traditional rural life; partly from the English Christian Socialism of the 19th century & partly from the Biblical idea of the Jubilee, when debts were cancelled and the land redivided amongst the families of the tribe. It is based on the idea that only free men who own their own land and house really have a stake in society or a chance at a good life. So in an ideal world ownership of property would be distributed as widely as possible (hence the name). Distributivists, always a small an uninfluential group, are divided as to how this desirable state of affairs can be brought about. Some want to achieve it gradually, through education and legislation and an increasing influence of the Roman Catholic church. These ones, following in the footsteps of Belloc (an ultra-nationalist, an anti-semite & in his old age a grumpy bigot), drifted farther and farther to the right, often becoming little different from Fascists. Recently they have become associated with the "Third Way" (i.e neither Socialism not Capitalism) a confused mish-mash of political positions that probably started as a self-justification by some milder Fascists but is now associated with Tony Blair and the British "New Labour" government. Some other Distributivists thought that the people should rise up and occupy the land, taking it from its current owners, whether the rich or the state. This philosophy is pretty indistinguishable from the English far-left Socialism of people like William Morris, drawing inspiration from agrarian revolts throughout history from the Peasant's Revolt to Gerard Winstanley and the Diggers. It isn't very different - apart from its explicitly Christian roots - from the Syndicalism of Joe Hill and the wobblies, or the position of some modern-day Left Anarchists such as the ones associated with the Solidarity Federation. They often say the same things, using different jargon. (The Distributivists looked backward to the middle ages & mainly talked about land, agriculture and small crafts. When they paid any attention to industry, other than to say they didn't like it, they made vague handwavings about "guilds", i.e. local trade-based co-operatives, owning factories. The Syndicalists looked forward to the 20th century, and were mainly interested in industry. When they bothered to talk about agriculture they wanted land farmed in small plots each by an owner occupier - "3 acres and a cow" again - except that in America where everything has to be bigger they made it "30 acres and a cow") To be honest it isn't that different from the position of a lot of Old Labour lefties like me - except we aren't revolutionaries either which leaves us in a bit of a fix... Chesterton was never a Socialist and probably never a revolutionary but he was often a Liberal (in the English sense) and was at least on speaking terms with Socialists and Anarchists (of whose politics he disapproved greatly) If you haven't read "The Servile State" you should. In fact if you haven't read Belloc you should. Not a great writer, not always even a good one, but very, very interesting. Of course I'm biased. In the early years of this century Belloc and Chesterton (& many other writers such as Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, S. Fowler Wright (you really have to be weird to remember him), E.C. Benson and A.A. Milne (the Hundred Acre Wood is just 20 miles from where I was born)) were almost fanatical admirers of my own home county of Sussex in England :-) And they wrote some really OTT poetry to show how good it all was. Ken Brown (about as off-topic as you can get on a Tuesday). The South Country When I am living in the Midlands That are sodden and unkind, I light my lamp in the evening: My work is left behind; And the great hills of the South Country Come back into my mind. The great hills of the South Country They stand along the sea; And it's there walking in the high woods That I could wish to be, And the men that were boys when I was a boy Walking along with me. The men that live in North England I saw them for a day: Their hearts are set upon the waste fells, Their skies are fast and grey; From their castle-walls a man may see The mountains far away. The men that live in West England They see the Severn strong, A-rolling on rough water brown Light aspen leaves along. They have the secret of the Rocks, And the oldest kind of song. But the men that live in the South Country Are the kindest and most wise, They get their laughter from the loud surf, And the faith in their happy eyes Comes surely from our Sister the Spring When over the sea she flies; The violets suddenly bloom at her feet, She blesses us with surprise. I never get between the pines But I smell the Sussex air; Nor I never come on a belt of sand But my home is there. And along the sky the line of the Downs So noble and so bare. A lost thing could I never find, Nor a broken thing mend: And I fear I shall be all alone When I get towards the end. Who will there be to comfort me Or who will be my friend? I will gather and carefully make my friends Of the men of the Sussex Weald; They watch the stars from silent folds, They stiffly plough the field. By them and the God of the South Country My poor soul shall be healed. If I ever become a rich man, Or if ever I grow to be old, I will build a house with deep thatch To shelter me from the cold, And there shall the Sussex songs be sung And the story of Sussex told. I will hold my house in the high wood Within a walk of the sea, And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me. Matilda Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes; Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth, Attempted to Believe Matilda: The effort very nearly killed her, And would have done so, had not She Discovered this Infirmity. For once , towards the Close of Day, Matilda, growing tired of play And finding she was left alone, Went tiptoe to the Telephone, And summoned the Immediate Aid Of London's Noble Fire-Brigade. Within an hour the Gallant Band Were pouring in on every hand, >From Putney,Hackney Downs, and Bow With Courage high and Hearts a-glow They galloped, roaring through the Town, `Matilda's House is Burning Down!' Inspired by British Cheers and Loud Proceeding from the Frenzied Crowd, They ran their ladders through a score Of windows on the Ball Room Floor; And took Peculiar Pains to Souse The Pictures up and down the House, Until Matilda's Aunt succeeded In showing them they were not needed; And even then she had to pay To get the Men to go away! It happened that a few Weeks later Her Aunt was off to the Theatre To see that Interesting Play The Second Mrs Tanqueray. She had refused to take her Niece To hear this Entertaining Piece: A Deprivation Just and Wise To Punish her for Telling Lies. That Night a Fire did break out - You should have heard Matilda Shout! You should have heard her Scream and Bawl, And throw the window up and call To People passing in the Street - (The rapidly increasing Heat Encouraging her to obtain Their confidence) - but all in vain! For every time She shouted `Fire!' They only answered `Little Liar'! And therefore when her Aunt returned, Matilda, and the House, were Burned.

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anti-spam lesson Re: Earn your worth not mlm!!! 330-258-9131
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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son (Gomez is coming!)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Son of Mother Of All Chapters -- SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! _________________________________________________________ July, 1948: The moment has come when the costumes, the grease paint, the falsely colored scenery, the technicolored spotlights and all the other artifices of makeYDup should be put aside and, in the interest of truth, the solid facts about the play and the players revealed to the people. ~ The Roosevelt Myth, Preface to the Popsvox PublishingR edition Dec. 7, 1941 The Lake of Life has started to turn over. The bottom is rising to the top, the top is descending to the bottom, and everything is becoming the opposite of what it seems to be. ~ Vice-Admiral B. D'Shauneaux, USN ~~~ ~~~ Version 1.7, Rev B: Saturday morning, March 4, 1933...the conquering Democrats poured into the city... Only a week before an assassin's bullet had barely missed Roosevelt. It struck Anton Cermak, the Bohemian mayor and boss of Chicago, who with Al Smith, had opposed Roosevelt's nomination...and died a few days later. Version 2.7, Rev. 3: On February 1, 1933, in Miami, Florida Giuseppe Zangara fired five shots a President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was making an impromptu speech while sitting in an open car that had stopped momentarily. Although none of the shots hit President Roosevelt, Zangara mortally wounded Anton Cermak, the Mayor of Chicago, and hit four other people, including a Secret Service agent. Version 3.9, Rev. 2-B: On February 15, 1933, Zangara attended a speech given by Roosevelt at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida. When Roosevelt had finished his talk and was preparing to leave, Zangara pulled out a pistol and opened fire. Zangara wounded five people who had been near the president-elect, two of them seriously. Most critically injured was Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who was struck by the bullet in the chest which then lodged in his spine. Version 4.9, Rev. 8C: The parade car moved slowly down the street as President-elect Roosevelt and Mayor Cermak smiled and waved. The car stopped and President-elect Roosevelt gave a speech while sitting on the back of the car. A man named Guiseppe Zangara pushed through the crowd. He fired five shots at the President-elect. The bullets hit four people and Mayor Cermak. Version 15.6, Rev. 7: On March 6, Mayor Cermak died from complications stemming from the shooting. The same day Zangara was indicted by a grand jury and charged with first degree murder in the death of Cermak. His trial began on March 9 and ended on March 11 with a guilty verdict and a death sentence. The prisoner was transported to the Florida State Prison at Raiford, where he was executed on March 20, 1933. Version 18.9, Rev. 5D: Mayor Anton J. Cermak died three weeks later, on March 8, 1933. His body was taken back to Chicago and buried in the Bohemian National Cemetery. Guiseppe Zangara was executed in the electric chair on March 21, 1933. That was only 13 days after Mayor Cermak died. Version 32.9, Rev. 12: Consider the case of Guiseppe Zangara, who was executed in 1933 for the attempted assassination of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in which Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was fatally shot. Zangara pleaded guilty in state court on March 10, was sentenced to death, and was executed on March 20 -- an interval of 10 days! Version 82, Rev. 5Q: After Roosevelt had delivered a speech in Florida on February 14, 1938, Guiseppe Zangara, an unemployed bricklayer, fired six shots from a handgun at Roosevelt from twelve yards away. The president-elect, who was sitting in an open car, was uninjured but five other people were shot, including Chicago mayor Anton Cernak, who was killed. Version 95, Rev. 8: On February 15, 1933, Guiseppe Zangara rose early...

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18th Century Hacking [scienceagogo]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19980914030842data_trunc_sys.shtml > Subject: 19980914030842data_trunc_sys.shtml > Richard Taylor > richard(a)jujumedia.com Apple UK Old Post Bags: The Story of the > Sending of a Letter in Ancient and Modern Times, brought to our > attention by the Dead Media Project. > > In those days, "franking" was the name of the game, meaning the > transmission of information by way of sophisticated encryptions on the > outside of an envelope. The trick was to take advantage of the > pre-Penny Black system of cash-on-delivery, where postmen demanded > exorbitant fees from recipients. Outwitting the Post Office involved > gleaning important information from, say, the way the address was > written, then refusing the letter on the grounds that it was too > expensive. > > The poet Coleridge tells the story of the most rudimentary sort of > frank, witnessed at an inn in the north of England. A postman offered > a letter to the barmaid and demanded a shilling. Sighing > melodramatically, she gave back the letter, protesting that she was > too poor to pay for it. Coleridge, ever the gentleman, insisted on > forking out the shilling, only to be shown afterwards that the > envelope was empty. The letter's message was in fact contained in a > number of subtle hieroglyphics alongside the address. [text deleted] > The Post Office cottoned on to such shenanigans, but proof of > fraudulent activity was next to impossible. They did, however, crack a > number of basic codes, and administered fines accordingly. Secret > messages embedded within apparent instructions to the postman, such as > "With speed" or "Postman, be you honest and true" were well known, as > was the practice of highlighting certain words on a newspaper > (newspapers were delivered free of charge) to convey a simple idea. > Underlining the name of a Whig politician commonly meant "I am well", > while doing the same thing with a Tory meant the opposite. [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Aaron Debunks Crypto Myths
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> > > Crypto emissary David Aaron gave a speech today in > Germany boosting US encryption policy for privacy and > commerce. Says it's an insult to claim US intelligence > agencies want backdoor access and other untrue myths: > > http://jya.com/aaron101398.htm A prime example of DoubleThink, since Key Recovery == backdoor access. # http://jya.com/aaron101398.htm # # Clearly, a balance must be struck between the needs of businesses and # consumers and the protection of society as a whole. What is the # answer? We believe the answer lies in cryptographic systems that # provide trustworthy security services along with lawful access. By # lawful access, I refer to a range of technologies designed to permit # the plain text recovery of encrypted data and communications under a ^^^^^^^^ # court order or other lawful means that safeguards civil liberties. In other words, they believe in cryptographic systems with backdoor access. The NSA testified to Congress concerning lawful access: : The Puzzle Palace : Inside the National Security Agency, : America's most secret intelligence organization : Author James Bamford, 1983 revision, ISBN 0-14-00.6748-5 : : P381-382: NSA Director General Allen testified to Congress that there is no : statute that prevents the NSA from interception of domestic communications. : Asked whether he was concerned about the legality of expanding greatly its : targeting of American citizens, the NSA replied: "Legality? That particular : aspect didn't enter into the discussions." The government's idea of "lawful access" is "anywhere, anytime". # http://jya.com/aaron101398.htm # # We are not wedded to any single technology approach. Key management # infrastructures, key recovery and other recoverable products that # provide lawful access are some of the ways to achieve a reasonable # balance. We believe that seeking industry-led, market-based solutions # is the best approach to helping law enforcement. Oh dey do do dey? : From owner-firewalls-outgoing(a)GreatCircle.COM Wed May 14 18:54:15 1997 : Received: from osiris (osiris.nso.org [207.30.58.40]) by ra.nso.org : (post.office MTA v1.9.3 ID# 0-13592) with SMTP id AAA322 : for <firewalls(a)GreatCircle.COM>; Wed, 14 May 1997 12:56:13 -0400 : Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 12:58:46 -0400 : To: firewalls(a)GreatCircle.COM : From: research(a)isr.net (Research Unit I) : Subject: Re: Encryption Outside US : : I was part of that OECD Expert Group, and believe I may shine at least : some light on what exactly was said and happened at the meetings. : : The main conflict during all sessions was the demand of the US to be : able to decrypt anything, anywhere at any time versus the European : focus: we want to have the choice - with an open end - to maintain : own surveillance. The US demand would have caused an immediate : ability to tap into what the European intelligence community believes to : be its sole and exclusive territory. In fact the Europeans were not at all : pleased with the US view points of controlling ALL crypto. Germany and : France vigorously refused to work with the US on this issue. : : ... the Australian and UK views that felt some obligation : from the 1947 UKUSA treaty (dealing with interchange of intelligence). : : Bertil Fortrie : Internet Security Review The US Government insists on the capability "to decrypt anything, anywhere at any time" he said. Gosh, that doesn't sound like they believe "market-based solutions" are the best approach, does it? * http://epic.org/crypto/ban/fbi_dox/impact_text.gif * * SECRET FBI report * * NEED FOR A NATIONAL POLICY * * A national policy embodied in legislation is needed which insures * that cryptography use in the United States should be forced to be * crackable by law enforcement, so such communications can be monitored * with real-time decryption. * * All cryptography that cannot meet this standard should be prohibited. No it don't, do it? : * "Above the Law" : * ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 : * by David Burnham : * : * The suspicion that the government might one day try to outlaw any : * encryption device which did not provide easy government access was : * reinforced by comments made by FBI Director Freeh at a 1994 Washington : * conference on cryptography. "The objective for us is to get those : * conversations...wherever they are, whatever they are", he said in : * response to a question. : * : * Freeh indicated that if five years from now the FBI had solved the : * access problem but was only hearing encrypted messages, further : * legislation might be required. Anywhere, anytime. ---guy "Easy access".

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Prepaid/anon net access
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 www.wired.com has a little blurb about the people at <http://www.auricweb.com/Accesscard.html>, apparently they're offering/planning to offer prepaid net access cards (similar to prepaid phone cards) whereby one can dial an 800 number, then enter a username/PW for 20 mins of dialup PPP. (they don't provide E-mail accounts, you have to have your own provider for that.) More tools for tentacles. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBM8wXsWcCR88m5EiMEQLxzACfRpDqQ+YUEUDpq7MxgmD+kjDZQ+wAnR52 649yXdt84bHMA3TC63blT9Yn =80qU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles(a)netbox.com | http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto.

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IP: Surveillance: Candid camera for criminals
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Surveillance: Candid camera for criminals Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:09:13 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_191000/191692.stm Tuesday, October 13, 1998 Published at 18:48 GMT 19:48 UK UK Candid camera for criminals Three steps to criminal-spotting A revolutionary surveillance system that can pin-point known criminals as they walk along in a crowd is being put to the test in a London borough. The Mandrake face recognition system will seek out 'target faces' in the closed circuit television (CCTV) footage in the Newham area. Councillor Ian Corbett said the decision to go ahead with the £60,000 six-month trial was made in response to the concerns of local residents. "We've done surveys recently and 60% of the population said that crime prevention was the No 1 issue in the community," Mr Corbett said. But fears of innocent people being identified by mistake have lead civil liberties groups to condemn the system and call for it to be tightly regulated. Making a match Newham has a network of 140 street cameras as well as 11 mobile camera units. Images beamed into the council's security centre in East Ham will be compared with a database of target faces supplied by police. The system can isolate the targets from the crowds of people appearing on CCTV. When a match is made the computer highlights the target and sounds an alarm. An operator then checks the image and decides if it is necessary to contact the police. The police in the area see the system as a way of making CCTV more efficient. "The people who go onto the system will be convicted criminals," said Chief Superintendent David Armond. Depending on the success of the trial, other targets like paedophiles could also be scanned. The system could also be used to help track down missing persons. Advanced technology Mandrake is the first identification system to be able to work from moving pictures. It has been designed by Software Systems International which has been concentrating on identification systems for several years. Less advanced systems are already in operation, including one which compares pictures of criminals with individuals crossing the Mexican border. One state in the US is using a database of millions of pictures to check on people who may be entering into more than one marriage, and another state is checking for duplicate drivers' licence applications in the same way. "The ability to capture a moving face is quite a new innovation and makes a lot of difference to being able to work with things like CCTV," Software Systems marketing manager Pat Oldcorn said. However she acknowledges that the computer will not always strike a perfect match. "We do expect that we will get a little bit of difference in interpretation because sometimes it will pick up a face at a three-quarters angle. We will need to use the human element to check the authenticity of the picture," she said. Big brother concerns It is the risk of error that has the civil liberties group Liberty most concerned. "The accuracy of facial mapping is very limited," campaigns manager Liz Parratt said. "For example, you need only to look at a handful of photos of celebrities to see how different the same people can look in different photos." "The claim that those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear is rubbish. What the police call an 80% success rate is what we would call a one in five chance of a mistake." Ms Parratt said that even if the system did work, it would have to be carefully regulated to protect people's privacy. But Councillor Corbett said he was most concerned about the civil liberties of innocent people. A reduction in the crime rate in Newham over the next six months will persude the Labour-dominated council to continue with the system. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: The Road to Biometric IDs: Identity Theft
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: The Road to Biometric IDs: Identity Theft Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:39:43 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: ABC http://www.abcnews.com/sections/us/DailyNews/id_theft981006.html When Someone Else Becomes You - Identity Crisis Lost Privacy is Price of Information Revolution *** "You feel like [your credit rating] is a mark of integrity, and then you're treated like a criminal and the whole onus is on you to prove you didn't do it." - identity theft victim Amy DuBois *** Could someone morph into you? (ABCNEWS.com) By Jan M. Faust ABCNEWS.com Oct. 9 - Babies are targeted. So are ex-lovers, ex-roommates, ex-friends and ex-spouses. And oh yeah, strangers too. People who use the Internet are definitely at risk. And so are those who don't. When it comes to identity theft-the pilfering of someone's personal data to get a free ride on a clean record or bountiful credit-the scams are so wide-ranging that there can be no generalization about who will get hit and who won't. Although there are no definite numbers on the incidence of identity theft in the United States, it is believed to be on an explosive trajectory. Last year, Trans Union, one of the nation's three major credit bureaus, reported approximately 350,000 cases of identity fraud. And, the U.S. Secret Service, a wing of the Treasury Department that gets involved on the larger cases, arrested approximately 10,000 people for participating in organized identity theft rings. As the numbers keep mushrooming, so have costs-up from $442 million in 1995 to $745 million in 1997, says Assistant Deputy James Bauer of the Secret Service. "So there's been a significant increase in the losses that tell us they're doing it more and applying a certain level of expertise." Your Money and/or Your Life When your evil doppelgangers go for convertible sports cars, or chunky diamond necklaces, more than your credit rating can be damaged. "I can promise you the day you learn of it you are at least 18 months from being whole again, " says Bauer. "During which time you can't buy a car, get a loan, maybe you're turned down for a job, and you may not even know why. Amy DuBois knows this firsthand. The 34-year-old Boston surgeon was swindled in what seemed a simple purse filching from her locked desk at the hospital. She took immediate, and what she assumed was adequate, action by canceling her credit cards and checks. Once that might have been enough. But as Bauer points out, new safeguards in the credit industry, like real-time verification of credit cards, have forced thieves to get craftier. The end result is that now, "Pickpockets will steal your wallet, and I say this facetiously, but they'll give you back the cash, just to get the IDs," says Bauer. Instant Credit Can Be an Instant Headache Although DuBois never recovered her purse or the money in it, it was the identification that was the real commodity. "Nearly two years later," DuBois says, "I got a phone call at home from a collection agency about an overdue credit account of $3,500 from a jewelry store in Detroit. "And then they started coming-I got two more notices in the mail, and two by phone within the next couple of days." When she checked her credit report, she found that almost $30,000 dollars of jewelry, roaming cell phone charges, and department store items had been racked up in her name, from accounts made at department stores with instant credit, billed to addresses that weren't hers. "The instant credit folks, like the departments stores, they're not checking or verifying because they're so eager to have new customers, because it's so competitive," says Beth Givens of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, whose consumer organization publishes help for victims. "I think the blame for a good bit of this epidemic lays at the feet of the credit industry." Will the Real Amy DuBois Stand Up? The fake Amy DuBois, it turned out, was a serious shopaholic. The real DuBois said that seeing her own credit report was "eerie" "Your student loans are there, your own Neiman-Marcus account, and then next to those are nine accounts that just aren't yours, marked delinquent." After 30 hours of her own time, four uninterrupted days of her secretary's time, and about $1,000 in lawyer's fees, DuBois is gradually starting to sort things out. That's typical, explains Ed Mierswinsky, a consumer advocate at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. "The victims end up in a real mess. They sit on hold with the credit card companies, they sit on hold with the credit bureaus, they get on endless voice mail loops, the police don't care because the amount of money lost doesn't make their threshold for making major cases and getting promotions." For DuBois, what lingers now besides the voluminous paperwork needed to be filed whenever she legitimately needs to establish credit, is suspicion and mistrust about giving out her personal identifiers. Recently while trying to open an account at Blockbuster Video, she was asked for her driver's license and Social Security number. "I said, 'No, I'm not providing that. You don't need to have that.'" Although she eventually relented on the driver's license, she said she's much more protective of her Social Security number. Give Me Some Credit Here Guarding that precious number is one key to improving your odds, agree privacy rights advocates. Criminals will try to liberate it from you in a number of ways, as low-tech as sifting through your garbage can for records, and as high-tech as setting up application forms on Internet sites offering credit cards at the impossibly low, low rate of 1 percent APR. And since it's extremely difficult to eliminate risk, Givens suggests ordering your credit report at least once a year. "The key is to catch it early. We recommend just going to one of the three credit bureaus, and if you see signs of fraud, then order the other two." That would have helped DuBois, who's says she'll feel insecure and violated for the rest of her life. "It's a very strange sensation. I have a very good credit record, I've been very careful. You feel like it's a mark of integrity, and then you're treated like a criminal and the whole onus is on you to prove you didn't do it. The whole thing is very frightening." For all of her expense and troubles, DuBois' experience could have been worse. More damaging than run-of-the-mill credit theft are those cases where criminal records or vital statistics are affected, through marriage, divorce, an arrest, or even death under the cloned name. "I know of a case out West where a lady died using an assumed name," says Bauer, "and the true name holder had to get a death certificate undone." Recent Examples of Identity Theft In New York this week, the state attorney general warned of a scam being circulated through e-mail, faxes and fliers offering consumers a reimbursement of $500 from Gerber Baby foods as settlement in a phony class action. To apply, parents were asked to send copies of their child's birth certificate and Social Security card. Babies' Social Security numbers are plum because they allow for unflawed credit, and are rarely checked for fraud. John and Jane Smith's adult daughter obtained credit cards in their name and ran up debts of more than $40,000. She paid the interest fees so as not to alert her parents of her use of the credit cards, but was not able to keep up the payments. The credit card companies now demand the Smiths pay the bill, given that the debtor is their daughter. A thief stole Annette's wallet, and has since written bad checks in her name, and used her credit cards. Annette wonders if anyone pays attention to driver's license photos. The thief is white and Annette is African-American. To make matters worse, she has to pay $10 every time she needs a notarized affidavit stating she is not the crook. Meredith rented a room in her home to a woman who found her SSN. She collected the pre-approved offers of credit that were mailed to the house, filled them out in Meredith's name, and obtained 15 credit cards. She watched the mail and retrieved the monthly statements before Meredith saw them. She has since moved out, leaving Meredith with debts totaling $74,000. Francine was employed for a time as a writer for a publishing company. After she left, she found that her employer was using her SSN and driver's license number to obtain credit in her name. A police department detective investigating the case told Francine that the woman has a long history of identity theft spanning many states. Cheryl and her 7-year-old daughter went to the bank to open a checking account for the daughter. The bank told Cheryl her daughter had a bad credit report. Cheryl thinks that her ex-husband has been using the child's Social Security number to open credit accounts. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 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IP: ISPI Clips 5.42: Poll Shows 75% of Canadians Worry About Internet privacy
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 5.42: Poll Shows 75% of Canadians Worry About Internet privacy Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:15:56 -0700 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 5.42: Poll Shows 75% of Canadians Worry About Internet privacy News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Wednesday October 14, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: The Toronto Sun, October 2, 1998 http://www.thestar.com 1 in 3 plan to buy online, poll reveals But Canadians still worry about privacy, security http://www.thestar.com/back_issues/ED19981002/news/981002NEW06_NA-POLL2.htm l By Valerie Lawton Toronto Star Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA - More than one in three Canadians expect to buy something over the Internet within the next couple of years, a poll suggests. ``That's a much higher figure than anything we've seen,'' said Frank Graves, president of Ekos Research Associates. ``We're talking about a pretty radical transformation of the marketplace, the world of commerce, in a very short period of time.'' The results of the Ekos survey are to be released today. Canadians also told the pollster they have a number of worries about buying online. About three-quarters of those asked said they would not be willing to give their credit card number over the Internet even if they were buying something from a well-known business. And Graves said the poll found people would be more willing to shop on the Internet if privacy and consumer protection measures were introduced. It's an important message for business and government, said Andrew Reddick of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre in Ottawa. ``They have to put consumers first if they want this to work,'' said Reddick, whose centre also worked on the E-commerce study. He's skeptical of the finding that one in three people plan to buy over the Internet soon. ``It may be wishful thinking. It may be showing a high level of interest,'' he said. ``A lot of people aren't on the Internet - 75 per cent roughly still aren't connected from the home.'' Some 7 per cent of Canadians said they had shopped on the Internet at some point during the three months before the poll was taken. Ekos has conducted three surveys on E-commerce over the last year or so. The most recent, a telephone survey in June, involved 2,200 interviews - a sampling that's said to be accurate within 2.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. In Ottawa yesterday, the federal government tabled legislation that includes measures to protect personal information. ``For electronic commerce to flourish, we need confidence in how our personal information is gathered, stored and used and clear rules for industry,'' said Industry Minister John Manley. The minister also announced yesterday that the government will take a hands-off approach to cryptography, a method which encodes data so that only individuals with the proper digital ``key'' are able to decipher it. 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