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Re: Clinton's fake apologies (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 08:05:07 -0700 (PDT) > From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> > Subject: Re: Clinton's fake apologies > On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Jim Gillogly wrote: > > > > If they <do> decide this is now a requirement for high office, I'd like > > to see all the Congresscritters who've had sex out of wedlock and > > concealed it take one step forward. Shall we make hypocrisy in high > > office impeachable also? > > A better question is: If Clinton is guilty of perjury and other felonies, > should he be impeached? > > If you don't think about lying about sex and related issues under oath > should be a crime, well, then change the law. But right now any form of > lying under oath is perjury, whether you like it or not. As rare as it is, I agree with Declan here. If Clinton would lie under oath about a non-crime (ie sex between consenting adults) what would he do if faced with a real issue? He should have said "Yeah, I had sex with her. What business is it of yours?". ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Ooops...16 is before 18th & 21st
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ooops, guess I was in some sort of fugue and forgot how to count... Clearly the 16th is before the 18th or 21st amendments. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb 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: radio net
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 9/8/98 2:29 PM, Ryan Lackey (ryan(a)systemics.ai) passed this wisdom: >Is anyone else interested in setting up a radio net (probably packet radio >relay) to relay small quantities of data in the event the telecommunications >infrastructure becomes unavailable (either technically or >legally/politically/militarily)? There are existing packet relay nets, but >in my experience amateur radio people, especially in the US, are very >willing to roll over for the government at the slightest cause. you tar with too wide a brush ... one of the pioneers of ham packet radio is Phil Karn, who definitely isn't in to submissive roll overs! For that matter neither am I, though, sadly the greater number of hams do fit your description. >I think the cost would be something like $1-5k per station, and it could >be done in a fairly turnkey fashion. Exactly how to handle routing and >what protocol to use on the network is kind of an open question -- there >are a lot of solutions, none of them optimal. so what are you interested in setting up???? Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with in the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy." -- Gassee - Apple Logo

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Group order for "Secret Power" ... (San Francisco Bay Area only)
by Ernest Hua 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm looking for 19 other people interested in "Secret Power" (Craig Potton Publishers has indicated that there is a discount for 20 or more copies). If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, please contact me by phone or E-Mail. As usual with these things, I would prefer to see you in person and have a cash or check committed. Also remember that the shipping is quite steep (for the faster methods) ... The US price uses US$0.71 per NZ$1.00. US PRICE 1 Copy NZ$27.50 per copy US$19.53 NZ$19.00 for shipping via air US$13.49 NZ$12.50 for shipping via economy US$ 8.88 NZ$10.00 for shipping via sea US$ 7.10 20 Copies (per copy) NZ$24.75 per copy (10% discount) US$17.57 NZ$ 9.50 for shipping via air US$ 6.75 NZ$ 7.25 for shipping via economy US$ 5.15 NZ$ 5.90 for shipping via sea US$ 4.19 ---- Ernest Hua, Software Sanitation Engineer Chromatic Research, 615 Tasman Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1707 Phone: 408 752-9375, Fax: 408 752-9301, E-Mail: hua(a)chromatic.com

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Re: Revenge of the AOLHoles
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Ryan Anderson wrote: > > > The problem is that most of the AOL users who publish to the net seem to > > be morons. They use some annoying Russo-Germanic quoting style, they can't > > use English, they're clueless, they post off-topic, or something else. > > In all fairness, many of the users on AOL *know* that the AOL quoting > style is utterly horrible. Unofrtunatley, they don't have much choice in > what they use. Sure they do. They can use a different mail reader. (After all, 32-bit AOL allows AOL users to use all the TCP/IP protocols...) They can cut and paste manually, or, probably best, they can go to another ISP. I understand what you're saying, Ryan, and I understand what they're saying, but there all alternatives out there; they just don't want to use them. In fact, they've installed proprietary packages that do this. There are plenty of free alternatives out there which don't have this problem. If my ISP pushed a bunch of proprietary software down my throat, I'd find another ISP. That goes double if the proprietary software sucks. That goes triple if the software sucks and the ISP is trying to get every idiot they can to use it. (I got a "100 hours free network abuse" disk in the mail recently from AOL.) Another AnonMonger

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Offshore Banking In Latvia
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- > > Found this: http://offshorehaven.nu/banking > > noidea whether a trap or a jewel. Just in case my first message was unclear: Offshore banking in Latvia looks good. The above website looks like a con. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG JXDMmaEyma+jN7wyVhvlYcOrLB7iNaWSDaDfE2dl 4B2lFoTKEej/7263gNwJ8CpUWXMXIdco2pG0PzcFL ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald

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Your new password
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Cryptanalysis
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:32 PM 2/29/96, Alan Olsen wrote: >Here is the problem... I am looking for texts on the breaking >of cyphers. (I want to show him WHY the cypher is insecure and >not just say "<scottish accent>It's crap!</Scottish accent>".) >I have done a couple of searches and have come up fairly dry. There are several places to look: * The Aegean Park Press line of books on military cryptanalysis, mostly the books by Friedman and his associates. Computer Literacy (on the Web) carries most of them. (Also mentioned in various crypto FAQs, as I recall.) However, these books are based on work done in WWII and the following decade(s), so the stuff is pretty dated. Still, nearly any "snake oil crypto" system, such as it sounds like your friend is building, will likely be far weaker than the ciphers the NSA was attacking back in the early days. (I just noticed that Bill Frantz made the same comments about the Friedman books. By the way, our own John Gilmore was instrumental in getting one of the last ones out into print; as I recall, he found one of them in a public library, and thus Aegean Park Press was able to republish it without the NSA stopping them.) * Several textbooks have good chapters on cryptanalysis, often buried in the "problems" section. I think Denning's book has a good chapter on the methods. * The journal "Cryptologia" is largely devoted to amateur cryptanalysis. >The Cyphernomicon has a couple of paragraphs, but nothing on >techniques or pointers to other references. RSA's FAQ has >little to nothing as well. A web search turned up little >useful. Most of the other references I have found have been for >current cyphers, but next to nothing about breaking them. There are very good reasons to say little about "conventional cryptanalysis": it just doesn't matter much with modern ciphers, such as public key systems. Modern ciphers don't fall to conventional attacks based on word frequency, pattern analysis, etc. Your friend is on a hopeless task. If he doesn't understand just how hopeless it is to develop a homegrown, conventional cipher then he's certainly not likely to take the time to become a skilled amateur cryptanalyst. --Tim May 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, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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by Deja News Members 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Hi!
by harald.fragner＠idg.se 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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