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IDC_ard
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

9-8-96. NYP Mag: "The True Terror Is In the Card." Faced with rising crime, illegal immigration, welfare fraud and absentee parents, many bureaucrats and members of Congress insist that the nation would run more smoothly if we all had counterfeit-proof plastic identity cards. Let's be clear that this is a one-way street. Once having established a requirement to carry photo ID, it will be difficult if not impossible to reverse. Don't we realize the dangers of allowing the Government to establish identity and legitimacy? Isn't it, in fact, the responsibility of the citizenry to establish the legitimacy of the Government? ----- http://jya.com/idcard.txt (11 kb) IDC_ard

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Re: Metcalf and Other Net.Fogies
by John Brothers 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:17 AM 9/7/96 -0400, perry(a)piermont.com wrote: > > <snip discussion of internet collapse> > >I'm "involved with the problems" too, you know. Don't teach granpaw to >suck eggs. OF COURSE there are problems. None of them, however, are >signs of "collapse". This whole thing makes me ill - maybe I'm just an idiot. What could possibly cause a collapse? More usage?? No - that would just mean that everyone's access would be slower. Do routers fail because they can't talk to other routers? no - they route around it. I consider myself reasonably educated when it comes to the layout of the internet, and I have never heard _anyone_ ever say what constitutes a collapse, and, if it means 'catastrophic permanent failure of the Internet', what could possibly cause that. These people are acting like one day, something is going to blow up, and the entire internet will follow, and stay down for a long long time. If all the DNS servers died, the internet would stop working for non-local access until they recovered. If there was a bug in Cisco routers that was set to go off on Thursday, September 12th, that would render them inoperable until power cycled, that would cause a major failure. If every building in MCI and Sprint's data network blew up, that would cause a major failure. If the usage increased so that the Internet was 'saturated', that doesn't qualify as a collapse. It qualifies as 'rush hour'. If the internet was in 'rush hour' 24 hours a day, it would be unfun to use, but unlike the highway system, we can add more lanes pretty much at will. (within reason). Will someone please explain to me what I'm missing? Thanks John --- John Brothers Do you have a right not to be offended?

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Choice of Words
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> --Tim May, who hopes he is never identified as the "John Doe" indicted, > tried, convicted, and sentenced in 1979 in Washington County, Oregon, for > the crime of unlawful foddering in a public place. > foddering? why, are you an indiscreet luncher? > Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! > We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed > ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- > 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, > Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. > "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." -- one of the few things we all share: the utter, corrosive contempt for our elected officials.

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Re: What the NSA is patenting
by jfricker＠vertexgroup.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:03 PM 9/6/96 -0700, you wrote: >At 12:50 AM 9/7/96, Jean-Francois Avon wrote: >>A maybe usefull program would be a little tsr that constantly >>overwrite unused sectors of the entire drive with random patterns >>(maybe seeded with a fast keyboard interval timer). Like at the very >>moment I am writing this, my HD has been idle for several minutes... >> > > >The NSA STM method is related to reading _very subtle_ variations in >magnetic domain modifications. Jitter in read-write head positions can be >thought of as a noise (N) added to some signal (S)l. Extraction of signals >in low S/N ration environments is a well-developed science. > This excerpt from a Wired article/interview http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.10/departments/electrosphere/data.html "No data is totally safe," says Sharp, who runs his Data Recovery Labs from the coincidentally named town of Safety Harbor, Florida. "But you can recover data that's been overwritten up to nine times. The only way to permanently remove data is with programs that can do a 'severe security erase,' when the drive is over-written 10 consecutive times." Believe it or don't!

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No Subject
by doom13＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Has anyone been on a bbs lately. I just subscribed to cypherpunks mailing list.

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Re: TWA 800 - Friendly Fire?
by Mark Neely 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Look at what has been happening in the news lately -- and look at how >much is "unexplained" or flimsy evidencially speaking, in the very least. >If, for instance, the government wanted to cut down on civil >liberties/civil rights, it would seem MIGHTY CONVENIENT that so much is >"accidentally" happening so close together. >-Millie >sfuze(a)tiac.net Yes, I wonder if the WhiteHouse will rush through a bill overturning the anti-terrorist measures which they justified on the basis of the TWA bombing. Regards, Mark ___ Mark Neely - accessnt(a)ozemail.com.au Lawyer, Internet Consultant, Professional Cynic Author: Australian Beginner's Guide to the Internet (2nd Ed.) Australian Business Guide to the Internet Internet Guide for Teachers, Students & Parents Check out my Anti-SPAM FAQ: http://www.accessnt.com.au/faqs/spam.htm

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Another Namespace Collision
by Charles Gimon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.blacknet.cz *********************************************************************** Wild new Ubik salad dressing, not | gimonca(a)skypoint.com Italian, not French, but an entirely | Minneapolis MN USA new and different taste treat that's | http://www.skypoint.com/~gimonca waking up the world! | A lean, mean meme machine. ***********************************************************************

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Re: Edited Edupage, 5 Sep 1996
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>CHINA SCREENS OUT "SPIRITUAL POLLUTION" ON THE NET >>The Beijing government has begun blocking as many as 100 Internet sites that >>offer material the government deems unsuitable for its citizens -- including >>dissident viewpoints from Hong Kong and Taiwan, sites sponsored by U.S. >>major media organizations such as CNN and the Washington Post, and sexually >>explicit sites such as Playboy and Penthouse. An official described the >>blocked sites as suspected purveyors of "spiritual pollution." (Wall Street >>Journal 5 Sep 96 B12) Gee only 100 bad sites on the net out of thousands of web sites. Looks cleaner than a hound's tooth to me. And Germany trying to block two sites a year (but failing). At that rate they'll really "shut 'er down." Note the subtle problem. With thousands of "bad sites" combined with bureaucratic sloth the governments of the world are bailing with a teaspoon. We ca put 'em up faster than they can knock them down particularly since they can't knock them down at all. DCF

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New type2.list/pubring.mix
by John A. Perry 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Everyone, I just updated the type2.list/pubring.mix combination on jpunix.com. This update includes the addition of the dustbin and jenanon remailers Welcome aboard! The files are available by WWW from www.jpunix.com as well as anonymous FTP from ftp.jpunix.com. John Perry - perry(a)alpha.jpunix.com - PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome! WWW - http://www.jpunix.com PGP 2.62 key for perry(a)jpunix.com is on the keyservers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMjKtO1OTpEThrthvAQHthgQApkbVzoc2NbYMm0U0Wcr3y2LpCY96/adT 2bLBg87S+CIStRHc2XirdjGk97TnN2p/1RBySqOIjH0a9Jajrso2yQYn7nQZ3/2W wIq2ZrQF1971IeajIBSEmNzD4lhr7Tkqi2WhVGHFEVboMvcp7Nw+wGxOfyaXP6mj uvZkIFAfDW0= =O4WA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[NOISE] More From Rumor-central
by liberty＠gate.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [This has nothing to do with cryptography, but it is related to other posts seen here recently.] Miami Herald reports today on page 3A that the National Transportation Safety Bureaucrats are "investigating an American Airlines pilot's report that a missile zoomed by his 757 on Aug. 29 as it flew near NASA and Navy facilities in Virginia on its way to Boston." An NTSB spokesman has confirmed an investigation (termed a 'preliminary probe') is ongoing. Not to be outdone, the FAA is investigating as well. All this is according to the Herald, and I offer no opinions about veracity or trustworthiness of this particular media organ or what caused the crash of flight 800. JMR Regards, Jim Ray -- DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy Thursday, September 5 is the day when, in 1698, Russian Czar Peter the Great imposed a tax on...beards. Please, don't tell Congress. [Source: The Advocates for Self-Government.] "As govt.s grow arithmetically, corruption grows exponentially." -- Ray's Law of official corruption. Defeat the Duopoly! Stop the Browne out. Harry Browne for President. Jo Jorgensen for Vice-president. http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/ http://www.twr.com/stbo ___________________________________________________________________ PGP id.E9BD6D35 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 <mailto:liberty@gate.net> http://www.shopmiami.com/prs/jimray ___________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMjLU4m1lp8bpvW01AQHB3AP/ROTTRCtg4LBrDwVSml2isdcm2GmFd01I 63dQg3o+ixBFldjXC3oHkQDUWSTyrpj/QXvUy43EGIdJMQ8MRI1+NCIu2R1ikF63 LasufEIvbCIzTcX1s+/n6vxciU6CYj2e5akbw4qBIK+eOr2roOoFADAKyQQbDdxx JvOvUzMVj/M= =WQHz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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