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by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Subject: Swiss radio international tape Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 17:45:06 -0700 From: bill payne <billp(a)nmol.com> To: taocp(a)cs.stanford.edu Knuth Hope you got a copy of the tape. I wonder or not whether you knew that NSA ACTIVELY tried to suppress knowledge and research on shift register sequences. And Forth too. Looks like possibly a BAD SCENE ahead. Best, allahu akbar, etc. bill Title: Don Knuth's Home Page : Donald E. 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(don't click here) <img src="http://www-cs.stanford.edu/gifs/logo.csd.gif" align="absmiddle" border=0 hspace=10>Stanford Computer Science Home Page Thursday 3/12/98 7:34 AM Certified - Return Receipt Requested Cynthia McKinney 124 Cannon Building Washington, DC 20515 Office: (202)225-1605 Fax: (202)226-0691 http://www.house.gov/mckinney/ Dear Representative McKinney: PURPOSE of this letter is to ask your help for us to obtain copes of docket sheets from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals for cases No. 94-2205, Payne v Sandia and 95-2204, Morales v Sandia. All of our legal efforts to obtain these documents, which any citizen has a right to, have failed. REASON you are selected to help is that you appear to be knowledgeable about operation of the current US federal government and willing to speak out in an attempt to solve problems. You appeared Friday February 27, 1998 on PBS, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, along with senators Campbell, Hollings, Lott, Shelby Robb and representatives Dana Rohrabacher and Harold Rogers. These senators and congressmen appeared not to support your views because they are either mis- or not well-informed about US involvement in support of Saddam Hussein. Stories supporting your view appear on Internet at NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran Conflict by J. Orlin Grabbe http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm and Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? by Wayne Madsen http://caq.com/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html Madsen begins It may be the greatest intelligence scam of the century: For decades, the US has routinely intercepted and deciphered top secret encrypted messages of 120 countries But NSA , and as a result the US federal government, apparnetly got caught involved in complicity of deaths of about 500,000 Iranians. This is the subject of a Federal lawsuit seen on Internet at http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm US federal government help of Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war may possibly backfire on innocent US citizens. The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 1998, pp. B1, B9. reports A Peek Inside a Giant Germ Warehouse By Rochelle Sharpe Rockville, Md. -- They keep anthrax bacteria in the basement of a faded red-brick building here. It isn't far from the yellow-fever virus, the botulism bacteria and some of the hundreds of organisms that cause the common cold. In fact, there are samples of 85,000 different fungi, viruses, cells, genes and bacteria here at the American Type Culture Collection, by far the largest of the 450 repositories of biological materials scattered around the globe. ... The ATCC legally shipped 10 vials of anthrax, botulism and other deadly substances to Iraqi scientists in the 1980s -- when the U.S. and Iraq were on much friendlier terms -- all with the Commerce Department's approval. ... http://www.jya.com/btn031198.txt The US federal government apparently intended these bioweapons to be used against the people of Iran. You demonstrated on PBS TV a quality identified by Francis Bacon The contemplation of things as they are, without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention. by your statement about Saddam Hussein on PBS ...our man and our creation... Perhaps after reading the above materials and The Problem of Paradigm Shifts - Terrorism and the Threat From Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East Working Draft Anthony H. Cordesman, Senior Fellow and Co-Director Middle East Studies Program October 22, 1996 http://www.csis.org/mideast/terror.html senators Campbell, Hollings, Lott, Shelby, Robb and representatives Dana Rohrabacher and Harold Rogers MAY NOW understand why you are correct and they are mis- or not well-informed about US involvement with Saddam Hussein. PROBLEM we face with the US court system is that court clerks and judges have committed Title 18 felony violation of law IN WRITING in an attempt to deny us monetary compensation due us for the cases WE WON at the Tenth Circuit on Appeal. But judges awarded victories to the US federal government in violation of Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. Cases No. 94-2205, Payne v Sandia and 95-2204, Morales v Sandia were both won pro se on appeal. We have filed a writ of mandamus with supreme court judge Scalia in an attempt to get the docket sheets for the two above cases. But Scalia will not answer our certified letters. Senator McCain wrote Payne on December 23, 1997 I wanted to take this opportunity of than you for you letter of December 3, 1997. Your situation is in the jurisdiction of Senator Pete Dominici. Therefore, I have forwarded you letter to his attention. William, I hope you situation can be resolved favorably. Lawyers and politicians Dominici and Bingaman are part of a problem not a solution. Dominici and Bingaman have the following agenda University of New Mexico Bureau for Business and Economic Research reported on October 14, 1997: A The Gross State Product of New Mexico is $37.8 billion. B The US Federal government sends $11.3 billion to New Mexico each year. C For each $1 New Mexico sends to Washington, New Mexico gets $2 back. THEREFORE, Representative McKinney, we ask your help to get copies of the docket sheets. Citizens of the US are becoming more upset with the behavior of bureaucrats, the courts [lawyers], and the US federal government. Some Americans have no other way to express their dissatisfaction with US federal government mismanagement of our country except by violence. Frederick Douglass either wrote or said on August 4, 1847 Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. These will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. We chose to use the words and law to hold government employees accountable. Please encourage Scalia to do his job. Help get us copies of the docket sheets. And even perhaps help investigate further and settle this American tragedy. Sincerely, Arthur R. Morales William H. Payne 1023 Los Arboles NW 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87107 Albuquerque, NM 87111 Enclosures 1 NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran Conflict by J. Orlin Grabbe 2 Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? by Wayne Madsen 3 Swiss Radio International Audio tape, 15 May, 18 July 1994 Distribution Ben Nighthorse Campbell administrator(a)campbell.senate.gov Ernest Hollings senator(a)hollings.senate.gov Trent Lott senatorlott(a)lott.senate.gov Richard Shelby senator(a)shelby.senate.gov Charles Robb Senator_Robb(a)robb.senate.gov Jim Lehrer newshour(a)pbs.org Title: Space Related Applications of Forth Space-Related Applications of Forth Compiled by James Rash NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland Introduction. The following table presents space-related applications of Forth microprocessors and the Forth programming language, including spacecraft flight system controllers on-board payload experiment controllers ground support systems (e.g., communications controllers and data processing systems) hardware or software used to build or test either flight or ground systems. Developers are requested to supply table updates and corrections, as well as information regarding relevant projects not already included, as appropriate. Please send information, comments, and suggestions to the author of this web page. Authorization for release of the information is the responsibility of the contributor. Please notify the author concerning any non functional URLs, links, or contact information in the table. Further information on Forth, including the ANSI standard (ANS Forth): Forth Interest Group Maryland Forth Interest Group: http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~nbuck/fig.html --> Taygeta Notice: Nothing appearing in these pages is to be construed as an endorsement by NASA. The information may be changed or withdrawn at any time without notice. The author has obtained the information from sources believed to be reliable, and has attempted to ensure accuracy, but makes no guarantees or representations of any kind. Copying, using, and distributing the table is authorized, provided it is kept intact, properly attributed, and accompanied by this Notice. DEVELOPER MISSION DESCRIPTION FURTHER INFORMATION (note: remove blanks from email addresses given below) Ball Aerospace (click on "Aerospace" link) Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) Star Scanner instrument & control software, using Harris RTX 2000 Forth microprocessor Ball Aerospace Advanced X-Ray Astronomical Facility (AXAF) Software to control the Science Instrument selection and focus mechanisms, using Harris RTX 2010 Forth microprocessor Ball Aerospace Advanced X-Ray Astronomical Facility (AXAF) Software to operate precision CCD Aspect Camera, using Harris RTX 2010 Forth microprocessor Ball Aerospace Earth Observing System (EOS) Scanning mirror controller for the Thermal Imaging Radiometer (TIR), using Harris RTX 2010 Forth microprocessor Ball Aerospace Midcourse Sensor Experiment (MSX) - SDIO Star Tracker instrument & control software, using Harris RTX 2000 Forth microprocessor Ball Aerospace Military aircraft Star Tracker instrument & control software, using Harris RTX 2000 Forth microprocessor Ball Aerospace Miniature Seeker Technology Integration (MSTI) Star Tracker instrument & control software, using Harris RTX 2000 Forth microprocessor Ball Aerospace Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Star Tracker instrument & control software, using Harris RTX 2000 Forth microprocessor Ball Aerospace Shuttle Star Tracker instrument & control software, using Harris RTX 2000 Forth microprocessor Ball Aerospace Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) Star Tracker instrument & control software, using Harris RTX 2000 Forth microprocessor Ball Aerospace X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) Star Tracker instrument & control software, using Harris RTX 2000 Forth microprocessor California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Advance Composition Explorer (ACE) Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS) instrument controller hardware (RTX2010) and software in Forth Walter Cook at wrc@ thor.srl.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Advance Composition Explorer (ACE) Solar IsotopeSpectrometer (SIS) instrument controller hardware (RTX2010) and software in Forth Walter Cook at wrc@ thor.srl.caltech.edu Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) USAF DMSP Magnetometer instrument control JHU/APL USAF DMSP Special Sensor Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager (SSUSI), 5 missions over 15 years using Harris RTX 2010 Forth microprocessor JHU/APL Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite ULEIS (Ultra Low Energy Isotope Spectrometer), using embedded Harris RTX 2010 Forth microprocessor JHU/APL CASSINI spacecraft Magnetospheric Imager (MIMI) using Harris RTX 2010 Forth microprocessor JHU/APL HILAT Magnetometer instrument control JHU/APL Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) Instrument control, on-line data analysis, telemetry JHU/APL MAGSAT Attitude Control Processor JHU/APL "Polar Bear" (Polar Beacon & Auroral Research Satellite) Magnetometer instrument control JHU/APL US Navy LONARS High precision navigation receiver using Loran-C Real time data processing & sensor control software JHU/APL Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Command & Telemetry Processor, Multi-Spectral Imaging System, Infrared Spectrograph and Magnetometer, X-ray/Gamma-ray Spectrometer, and Laser Rangefinder, all using the Harris RTX 2010RH Forth microprocessor Los Alamos National Laboratory Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite Solar wind data processing unit, using Harris RTX 2010 Forth microprocessor McDonnell Douglas Shuttle - Electrophoresis Operations in Space (1986) Pharmaceutical purification process control software Robert Wood at rwood@ mdc.com McGill University International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) (Shuttle mission STS-42) Space Adaptation Syndrom Experiment management and data acquisition for four out of seven life science experiments Luc Lefebvre at lefebvre@ medcor.mcgill.ca NASA/GSFC Compatibility Test Van (CTV) Dual channel PCM simulator system software NASA/GSFC Compatibility Test Van (CTV): Landsat, HST, GRO, COBE, UARS, etc., Wallops, Data Evaluation Lab Programmable Data Formatter III system software NASA/GSFC CRAF/CASSINI MASSACQ Flight Instrument Test/Calibration System NASA/GSFC Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) Command and data acquisition system written in Forth Mark Yarbrough at yarbrough@ mlml.calstate.edu NASA/GSFC Massively Parallel Processor (MPP) Image processing software NASA/GSFC NCC Mission Operations Support Area (MOSA) ITR (Intelligent Transmitter/Receiver) -- Interface board for MOSA (formerly Mini-NOCC) Front End Thomas Sardella at Thomas.E.Sardella.1@ gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultra Violet (SSBUV) ozone calibration instrument with 8 successful Shuttle bay flights Small Payload Accommodation Module (SPAM) interface controller software written in Forth Bob Caffrey at Robert.T.Caffrey.1@ gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultra Violet (SSBUV) Instrument Interface Electronics Module (IIEM) software written in Forth John T. (Tom) Riley at john.t.riley.1@ gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounder Experiment (SOLSE) A "Hitchhiker Junior", to fly summer '97 -- instrument controller written in Forth (ditto) NASA/GSFC Limb Ozone Retrieval Experiment (LORE) A small independent instrument within SOLSE -- instrument controller written in Forth (ditto) NASA/GSFC Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) on Space Shuttle Astro-2 mission Dedicated Experiment Processor (DEP) written in Forth Peter Chen at chen@ uit.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC Small Spacecraft Technology Initiative (SSTI) (Lewis Research Center/TRW) Goddard Electronics Module (GEM) data acquisition processor using Harris RTX-2010 Jay T. Miller at jay.t.miller.1@ gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC ACE (JHU/APL) Spacecraft Loads & Acoustic Monitor (SLAM) simultaneous data acquisition and downlink subsystem using Harris RTX-2010 (ditto) NASA/GSFC Wideband Transport Frame Formatter (WTFF) Virtual channel processor & system controller for the Advanced Orbiting Systems (AOS) Testbed using Harris RTX 2000 Forth microprocessor Jose Bentancort at Jose@ tsi-telsys.com NASA/JSC Shuttle, IML-1 Krug Life Sciences Microgravity Vestibular Investigations NASA/JPL Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR-B) Command & control software NASA TOPEX Portion of Ground Support Equipment software Orbital Sciences Corporation ORBCOMM Experimental Package OXP-1 on Pegasus Flight & experiment software Orbital Sciences Corporation ORBCOMM Experimental Package OXP-1 on Pegasus Flight & experiment software Orbital Sciences Corporation (formerly Fairchild Space & Defense) USAF Multimission Modular Spacecraft (MMS) Multiplex Data Bus Monitor/Recorder test equipment using Harris RTX2000 microprocessor and firmware written in Forth Mark A. Mowen at markmowen@ fsd.com Orbital Sciences Corporation ORBCOMM-X Telemetry, flight control support Orbital Sciences Corporation USAF APEX Data management and power control software Orbital Sciences Corporation SeaStar Sea WiFs data management and power control software Orbital Sciences Corporation/Hercules Pegasus Telemetry & flight control Radio Amateur Satellite Corp. (AMSAT-DL (Germany)) AMSAT OSCAR 10, OSCAR 13, OSCAR 21, and (in development) Phase 3-D amateur radio satellites Integrated Housekeeping Unit (including navigation, attitude control, telemetry and telecommand tracking, payload control, power management, health & safety, and propulsion control) and Ground Support Equipment, all using the Forth-like language IPS (Interpreter for Process Structures). OSCAR 21 used the Harris RTX2000 microprocessor. Swedish Space Corp./JHU/APL Freja Magnetometer experiment control Lawrence Zanetti at zanetti@ jhuapl.edu University of California Galileo Magnetic Field Experiment instrument control University of Wisconsin Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE) Instrument control US Navy SPINSAT Portion of ground support equipment software USSR Baikonur Cosmodrome Telemetry data analysis & retrieval workstations Vertex Communications Corporation Satellite earthstation antenna systems 7210 Monopulse Antenna Control System on Motorola 68030 platform sales@ vcsd.com Last revised: 4 March 1998 Name Mail Code Responsible management official Sylvia Sheppard 588 Author James Rash at james.rash@ gsfc.nasa.gov 588  For reference purposes, this page is located at URL: http://groucho.gsfc.nasa.gov/forth

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Re: No matter where you are, you can lie.
by rkmoore＠iol.ie 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

4/10/96, Peter Trei wrote: >Therefore any site that can see the same set of satellites as the site it is >trying to simulate can do so, buffering less than 50 ms of waveforms and >pretending to be on the end of a slow link. That's what I assumed in the first place. Thanks, Peter, for doing the math. Do you have a solution as satellites cross the horizon, or for very-distant spoofing? ...co-conspirator nodes tightly-coupled via laser or wire? -rkm (not on cypherpunks)

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New NRC Report Site
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Keith, The entire Web site hosting the NRC report was nuked by an alien or angel yesterday. Another site is in preparation and we will announce it on c'punks as soon as it is ready, probably later today. John

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ANSWERS
by simon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

have you got a hacker and if you have would you mind if you could send over to me? WE ARE DESIGNING A HACKING SYSTEM FOR WORLD WIDE USE AND WONDERED IF YOU COULD HELP IN THE DESIGNING OF IT IF SO PLEASE SEND AN E-MAIL TO US AND WE WILL SEND YOU SOME VALUABLE OTHER HACKING SOFTWARE

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Re: Know Your Net.Enemies Project
by tallpaul＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Apr 10, 1996 23:47:54, '"Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+(a)CMU.EDU>' wrote: >Would anyone be interested in collaborating on a "Know Your Net Enemies" >project? Feel free to use my writings on the CyberAngels. --tallpaul

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Re: Protocols at the Point of a Gun
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There are serious technical problems with the suggestion that labelling packets as "Adult" or "Child" using IP options and filtering at ISPs for censorship. IP works on a per-machine basis (technically, a per-network-interface basis, though for most client machines that's the same thing.) That means that a web or nntp server including some "Adult" material and some "Child" material either needs a way for an application process to communicate this to the network drivers, or needs to label all packets as "Adult" to avoid the politically incorrect risk of mislabelling a packet as "Child" when it's not. The standard TCP/IP API programming interface software on Windows, Mac, and Unix machines doesn't provide for applications to _tell_ the network drivers about IP options, so even if IPng had censorship features added, the applications couldn't use it. (There are a few military multi-level security versions of Unix that give you more flexibility for this sort of thing, but they tend to provide mandatory security so you _can't_ send a packet marked "UNCLASSIFIED" from a "TOP SECRET" session.) Another problem is that it only addresses single-user client machines, rather than multi-user operating systems such as Linux, which has a million or so users out there. The model works fine when you treat a PC as a fancy version of a dumb terminal, but a machine shared by multiple users (whether many at one time, or one at a time) uses a single connection to support all of them - that means you can't have censored material available to the child and uncensored material available to the parent unless the networking software can pass the censorship labels on to the application program - but again, the standard operating system interfaces (developed over many years by thousands of The Free World's finest developers :-) don't have a way to implement it, because it was never a design goal. Trying to implement censored sessions at a transport level instead has its own problems. First of all, TCP provides reliable sessions; censoring packets based on IP labels in the middle of a transaction means that TCP will retransmit until the packet gets through or it gives up and drops the connection, so any "Adult" packets would dump a Registered Child out of the browser, even if they were unintentional (e.g. from an Adult who labels all packets "Adult" to avoid being liable for mistakes, or packets from Europe that were default-labelled by a service provider to avoid having to read them all, or from the Library of Congress Online Edition if the Librarian labels each packet correctly.) On the other hand, UDP packet exchange, which doesn't use sessions, would require validating the user's ID and authorization on each packet. Furthermore, if the censorship information is carried at the transport level, or at a higher level (i.e. headers in the message itself), the only way the ISP's routers, which work at the IP level, can censor packets is to perform the equivalent of the Post Office steaming open envelopes before delivering them to your house, and refusing to deliver them if there's a child living in the house and the letter either contains a bad word or is written in a language the Post Office doesn't understand, such as Finnish or Japanese or PGP. At 04:03 PM 4/10/96 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: >At 9:48 4/10/96, Duncan Frissell wrote: >>We know that governments would like to impose things like the Simple >>Tax Transfer Protocol on the Net as well as Is A Person (and Is A Minor) >>Protocols. > >There is one thing about the proposed minor flag addition to IP that I >don't understand. [No, I am not surprised by this. Mandatory authorization >to establish a connection and an "Internet Driver License", probably in the >form or a smart card are coming]. >If my computer creates the IP packet, what is there to prevent me from >modifying the value of the "Minor/Adult" flag at my leisure? If you create outgoing packets that are labelled "Minor", and contain "Restricted to Government-Certified Adults Only, and No Felons or Foreigners Allowed" material, you can get busted for it. So you have to either restrict all your outgoing packets to be labelled "RtG-C Adults O,aNFoFA", or else make sure all the material you transmit passes the "Government-Approved-for-Minors, Foreigners, and Victorian ladies" filter. On the other hand, if you don't log in to your ISP with a "government-certified adult, non-felon, non-foreigner, politically stable, not-a-Commie-or-Jew" id, it'll block any packets not approved for you. Any news or web server will also have refuse to send any "Adult"-labelled material to you if the requests arrived on a "Kid"-labelled connection - this means that either the server machine will have to only carry Kid-approved traffic, or only talk to Adults, or add an "Adult" label to all outgoing packets whether marked "Kid" or not, or else it will have to break protocol boundaries by passing IP-layer information up to the application. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215

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Re: time to export RSA and demand to be prosecuted? (Re: Cypherpunks Crypto_Legal Assistance Fund)
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan wrote: >If anyone chooses to try this act of civil disobedience, let me know and >I'll write about it. But be warned: the Department of Commerce has >approximately 60 special agents who enforce violations of export rules. >These are federal police officers, stationed in field office around the >U.S., with badges and arrest power, trained at FLETC in Georgia. They don't >have a sense of humor about these things. Well, yes, that's what BXA flaunts, but I wonder if the encryption regs are a high priority compared to the cases which are actually pursued which deal with truly threatening technology that every congressperson loves to fearfully hate. Yapping Chihuahua crypto is not up there yet, I suspect. True, there's a batch of agents being trained to work specifically on encryption, and with the total of crypto exports now exceeding $half a billion, it may be cost and politically effective to set an example by pounding one or two neo-crypto-Zimmermanns, especially as the year's hearings rumble, troll and slumber. Still, Adam's signature RSA-taunt has been on our Web site for months, terminating each of his exemplary stream of messages on low perfidy in high places, to no effect on BXA's eagle eyeball. Adam's 3-liner was also once part of Peter Junger's legal filings <http://jya.com/pdj4.htm> (DoJ downloaded the evidence) until we were ordered to excise the tiny terrible Perl so that Peter's noble bite of the hand of god would be clearly his stiletto fangs and not confused with Sir Adam Bulldog's ass ripper. Now, Declan, what would a crypto-miscreant need to do to actually get BXA's fierce kennel of crypto bloodhounds' attention, to make it truly worth everybody's headline read, money, politics, talents and teeth? By Tuesday, when Cindy Cohn sticks her head in the beast's mouth.

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New Website is up!!
by Jared 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

New Web page up at HTTP://WWW.INSTANTWEB.COM/~SALEM/ CHECK IT OUT!! THANKS!! -CypherPunks Get your FREE, private e-mail account at http://www.mailcity.com

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Holiday Shopping Survey And Contest
by prize＠survey.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Internet User, The holiday season will soon be upon us. Will you be making your list and checking it twice online? We're curious about what role, if any, the Internet will play in your holiday plans this year. Share your opinions with us and you could win a free Talking Tommy (from hit Rugrats' TV Show) or Talking Teletubby toy (from popular PBS show). To join in the holiday fun, go to the survey at: http://www.survey.com/holshopsur.html Be sure to include your email address at the end of the survey so we can enter your name in the drawing. It is not required that any information be provided other than your email address for you to be entered into the drawing. A complete list of contest rules is attached to the survey. We will be happy to let you know when the results are ready. Happy Holidays and good luck on the drawing! Greg Harmon Director of Research World Research

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Re: Protocols at the Point of a Gun
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For information on the "Internet Philosophy" there is a IETF draft that might be of interest at: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-iab-principles-02.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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