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Search engines: query on queries
by Michael Froomkin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have seen occasional references to various reports on what kinds of queries are submitted to Altavista and other search engines. Can anyone point me to an authoritative report? A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate Professor of Law | U. Miami School of Law | froomkin(a)law.miami.edu P.O. Box 248087 | http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA | It's warm here.

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Re: IPG Hoax Re: IPG Hoax?
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I must admit that after the first day I've been wondering if this whole > IPG thing isn't some kind of deep troll or early April Fool's joke. Well, not only is "Ralph" detweiling more intensely than anyone since the original, hitting as many hot buttons as possible, but he does an impressive job of trying to sound erudite by quoting various literary figures while misspellling their names (and misspeling other words far be-yond his obvious typ1ng defishncies.) And, of course, if he _isn't_ a hoax, he's probably representative of the rest of his company's quality process. Either way, he's quite impressive! Dos-toy-evsky

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Re: IBM Breakthrough?
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Responding to msg by mpd(a)netcom.com (Mike Duvos) on Wed, 21 Feb 9:3 PM >Those wishing to read IBM's explanation of this new >technology may browse their Web page on Quantum >Teleportation at... > >http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/ Thanks much for your precis and the IBM pointer. IBM's ad seems inspired by Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The teleportation site hiply introduces the topic with its science fiction ancestry. The site even has a link to the "goulash" featured in the ad, so the tease is PR for IBM's magical research explorations. It was illuminating to read the tie of teleportation to quantum research -- cryptograpy, communication and who knows what else burbling in that wizard Watson lab. Because my Lynx could not get into IBM's "quantum cryptography," perhaps Blue is onto some Lotus-like Q-Crypto soon to be teased in ads for cosmos-wide Net security or surveillance-proof chips and goulash.

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BLO_bak
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

2-22-96. TWP: "CIA Can Waive Prohibition Against Using U.S. Clergy Abroad for Covert Work." A controversial loophole permitting the CIA to recruit American journalists as agents also allows the agency to waive a similar 19-year-old ban on employing clerics or missionaries. An official also disclosed that CIA regulations prohibit recruiting employees of members of Congress or congressional committees "without the approval of the member" for whom they work. "The CIA: No Cover For Failure." Now we know why the CIA, the NSA and the DIA and all those other spook agencies that get $25 billion-plus every year can't bring down Saddam Hussein: They have not been able to use journalists or priests -- the latest the Washington/New York national security establishment has come up with to ride out the lean years after the Cold War. In a justification for continued massive spending on spying, the experts ask us to focus on the extraneous and stupid, rather than look at the obvious. "Again, the CIA and the Press." [Editorial] "My Spy Story." [NYT Op-Ed] 2ND_job (for 4)

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Bell Labs' Alternative to Java
by Wink Junior 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Looks like Java might have some competition. Perry and others who are concerned that Java has inherent security flaws might want to get a word in with the Bell Labs folks while the project is still in development. Wink >BELL LABS, RITCHIE "DO SIMPLER RIVAL TO JAVA" >(February 20th 1995) AT&T Corp's Bell Laboratories is working >feverishly on a rival to Sun Microsystems Inc's Java, according to >the San Jose Mercury News. The paper reckons that the project has >been accorded such a high priority that most of the 10 or so software >engineers working on the Plan 9 OS have been pulled off that to get >the new language, code-named Inferno, finished. > >According to Silicon Valley's local paper, Dennis Ritchie, credited >with creating both Unix and C, made a brief reference to Inferno in a >speech last Tuesday night at UniForum and was reluctantly persuaded >to enlarge on it a little later. He said that while Java has been the >beneficiary of a lot of hype, the underlying idea behind it was >compelling, but he was worried that Java had become too large and >complex; he also suggested that any Bell Labs version would be useful >in a wider variety of machines, including future television sets. >"Java does not go far enough," he said. > >Ritchie did not say how far along Inferno was, and implied that no >decision had been made about whether it would ever be brought to >market as a product. Bell Labs is of course in the early stages of >moving - not physically but in its allegiance - from AT&T to the >$20,000m-a-year fledgling Lucent Technologies Inc.

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BLO_bak
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

2-22-96. TWP: "CIA Can Waive Prohibition Against Using U.S. Clergy Abroad for Covert Work." A controversial loophole permitting the CIA to recruit American journalists as agents also allows the agency to waive a similar 19-year-old ban on employing clerics or missionaries. An official also disclosed that CIA regulations prohibit recruiting employees of members of Congress or congressional committees "without the approval of the member" for whom they work. "The CIA: No Cover For Failure." Now we know why the CIA, the NSA and the DIA and all those other spook agencies that get $25 billion-plus every year can't bring down Saddam Hussein: They have not been able to use journalists or priests -- the latest the Washington/New York national security establishment has come up with to ride out the lean years after the Cold War. In a justification for continued massive spending on spying, the experts ask us to focus on the extraneous and stupid, rather than look at the obvious. "Again, the CIA and the Press." [Editorial] "My Spy Story." [NYT Op-Ed] BLO_bak (for 4)

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Re: Internet Privacy Guaranteed ad (POTP Jr.)
by geeman＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:56:13 >To: cypherpunks(a)Toad.com >From: geeman(a)best.com >Subject: Re: Internet Privacy Guaranteed ad (POTP Jr.) > > > IDG: Get real. Publish the stuff like the rest of the world does. The only ones who don't are just not players in the game. If you want to try to snow consumer-types then go ahead. But if you want validation from the crypto community you'll have to just publish it. > >And if you don't, and just continue the marketing fluff, then people from this list, and others in the community, will be all over you and the publications (lists, press, etc) with the theoretical and inferred weaknesses of your system. > >I would say the onus is on you to put up or shut up and don't try to orchestrate or control the parameters of the disclosure. It's really in your own interests, I would think. > >

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Anyone else getting these?
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is anyone else getting these strange "Message body suppressed" messages? Below is an example: At 7:31 AM 2/26/96, spook(a)eworld.com wrote: > ----- Message body suppressed ----- > >--NAA18253.825456631/dns1.noc.nsa.net-- > > > >** NOTICE **: A mailer error at NSA caused this >** message to get messed up. If the body of the message >contains only '----- Message body suppressed -----', >then we were unable to recover the entire message and you >will have to email the person sending you this message >asking him or her to resend it. NSA apologizes for >the inconvenience. Every day that passes convinces me we are entering a period of chaos. Large mailing lists are a likely casualty. --Tim (Yes, I changed "Best" to "NSA," for the fun of it.) 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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Cyberspace Hashishim Declare Jihad [NOISY]
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.onworld.com/MUT/elecGur.html has a declaration which includes many of the crypto-anarchy concepts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Privacy legislation in CA
by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just forwarded my last post to some other list favouring - sort of - proposed privacy legislation in California. As it may not have appeared here, and is very short, and I don't have the URL, and I believe my response was relevant to cpunks, I've reproduced the bill. -Rishab SB 1659 Personal rights: privacy. BILL NUMBER: SB 1659 INTRODUCED 02/21/96 BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Peace FEBRUARY 21, 1996 An act to add Section 43.2 to the Civil Code, relating to privacy. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1659, as introduced, Peace. Personal rights: privacy. Existing law, the California Constitution, provides that all people have certain inalienable rights, including the right to privacy. This bill would prohibit a person or corporation from using or distributing for profit information concerning an individual, including his or her credit history, finances, or medical history, without his or her written consent. The bill would include a statement of legislative findings concerning the right to privacy. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. SECTION 1. The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (a) All people have an inalienable right to privacy as declared in Section 1 of Article I of the California Constitution. (b) Advances in technology have made it easier to create, acquire, and analyze detailed personal information about an individual. (c) Personal information, including information about a person's financial history, shopping habits, medical history, and travel patterns, is continuously being created. (d) The unauthorized use of personal information concerning an individual is an infringement upon that individual's right to privacy. SEC. 2. Section 43.2 is added to the Civil Code, to read: 43.2. No person or corporation may use or distribute for profit any personal information concerning a person without that person's written consent. Such information includes, but is not limited to, an individual's credit history, finances, medical history, purchases, and travel patterns. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Indian Techonomist - newsletter on India's information industry http://dxm.org/techonomist/ rishab(a)dxm.org Editor and publisher: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh rishab(a)arbornet.org Vox +91 11 6853410; 3760335; H 34 C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA

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