Title: The True Story of the Internet Part II The True Story of the
   InterNet Part III InfoWar Final Frontier of the Digital Revolution
   Behind the ElectroMagnetic Curtain by TruthMonger Copyright 1997 Pearl
   Publishing InfoWar Table of Contents Anarchist Post of the Century
   Anarchist Post of the Century Anarchist Post of the Century Subject:
   Freedom of Encryption: Is it SAFE? From: "Michael Pierson" To:
   cypherpunks@cyberpass.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- There has
   been much discussion recently concerning how to fix certain flaws, or
   block various amendments in encryption legislation being shepherded
   through Congress. A far more fundamental problem with these legislative
   efforts from the beginning was that they involved an implicit
   concession to the idea that a U.S. citizen's freedom to privately
   exchange information in whatever coding scheme he or she might choose
   required some kind of government affirmation or ratification as
   validation. Once one seeks for the government's deigning to "affirm the
   rights of United States persons to use and sell encryption", it can
   (and does) then easily proceed to attach conditions and caveats to
   these "affirmed" rights. In the process the surveillance hawks within
   the government have managed, with hardly any struggle, to advance the
   appearance of legitimacy for their claims of authority to regulate this
   form of expression. Now comes an expectation that the nature of these
   "affirmed rights" should be tailored to address "the concerns of
   national security and the federal law enforcement community." This same
   community has on occasion complained about how their efforts to fight
   organized crime and terrorism are being thwarted by not having the
   modern newspeak disguised equivalent of "Writs of Assistance" (and they
   are arguably making progress toward acquiring just such powers IMO).
   Very few politicians are willing to commit the heresy of clearly and
   staunchly asserting that the information coding methods used by
   citizens are under no obligation to pass any litmus test, or to be
   subject to any kind of prior approval or restraint determined by
   criteria of the law enforcement establishment or anyone else. If the
   Feds lament that this will make their job harder, too bad. In the words
   of Orson Welles: "Only in a police state is the job of a policeman
   easy." When these various legislative efforts attempted to reach beyond
   the issues of export restrictions to address those of domestic use,
   they became a doubtful and dangerous fix to something that wasn't broke
   in the first place. If the Government is intent on "abridging the
   freedom" to use strong encryption domestically, a legislative
   affirmation of these rights is feeble comfort at best. If I'm seeking
   to protect my possessions, I don't ask a thief to affirm my property
   rights. Of course, even the export question is really about the aims of
   the state's surveillance constituency to obstruct the wide deployment
   of strong encryption domestically, and its interoperability on the
   internet as a whole. Challenging the derisible bogosity of the
   "preventing the Evil Ones from acquiring this technology" rationale
   that is invoked to justify these restrictions was not something
   legislation was likely to do with any great vigor. Legislation to
   "relax" these restrictions involves lending credence to the dubious
   assumption that these restrictions had any constitutional validity to
   begin with. Any bill that would have truly provided for the statutory
   endorsement of the acceptably uncompromised use of strong encryption
   never really had much more than a snowball's chance in hell of actually
   being signed into law given the current political balance of power, did
   it? Far more likely, was that it could be corrupted and hijacked as a
   vehicle to further the very type of restrictions it was purportedly
   intended to relieve. A collateral consequence is an increased arrogance
   and presumption among lawmakers that it is their prerogative to act to
   define for us citizens, what freedoms for domestic use of encryption we
   should be permitted. The growing gallery of GAK amendments and
   competing legislative proposals now emerging appears to support this
   sad scenario. It's starting to look like the prospects for meaningfully
   improving the situation with encryption legislation in the current
   political environment were about as promising as the prospects of a
   neophyte gambler coming out ahead at a crooked casino. I expect any
   apparent winnings in the end will come with a catch between the lines
   in the fine print, if they come at all. In any case, whatever is
   legislatively affirmed can later be legislatively denied. What a King
   presumes is his to grant, he usually presumes is his to revoke as well.
   In the end, what will have really been gained by this legislative
   venture, and what will have been explicitly or implicitly surrendered?
   As I see it, at this point the issue isn't about counting wins, it's
   about cutting losses. Freedom of encryption.... Is it SAFE? I don't
   think so. -Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a
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   Century Subject: DejaVu: Cypherpunks as Philosopher Kings From: "Attila
   T. Hun" Reply-To: "Attila T. Hun" Organization: home for unpenitent
   hackers; no crackers! To: "Timothy C. May" , cypherpunks -----BEGIN PGP
   SIGNED MESSAGE----- ten months ago: on or about 961218:1123 "Timothy C.
   May" purported to expostulate: +_Direct action_ is what it's all about.
   Undermining the state through +the spread of espionage networks,
   through undermining faith in the tax +system, through even more direct
   applications of the right tools at the +right times. + +When
   Cypherpunks are called "terrorists," we will have done our jobs. [Tim]
   said this before Christmas last year as an erudite and lengthy addendum
   to my lengthy tome: "Cypherpunks as Philosophy Kings" that pretty well
   summed our generally mutually agreed "philosophy". both were and still
   are worth reading; anybody who does not have copies, ask. but
   cypherpunk terrorists are not violent; this is all about making
   information free and protecting privacy with technology. despite the
   fact the Commerce Committee effectively killed SAFE (or we think they
   did until Oxley tries to tack his amendment structure on an
   appropriations bill in a house-senate conference or "manager's mark"
   procedure (whatever that is)), we can not drop the due diligence, and
   the public must be aroused, called to battle. even if there is no
   action, prepare for the next fire drill. sow the seeds of dissension.
   seems to me we were sure the CDA was dead --except it slipped in with a
   manager's mark after the house voted almost unanimously the other way
   (402-12 or something like that). the capitol hill sleaze took a grand
   slam NO and reported an even worse yes, making it part of a major bill
   that absolutely was going to pass --and they have the gall to call that
   travesty democracy? Teddy Roosevelt: "It is difficult to make our
   material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to
   ruin it by bad laws." Tim's message for Christmas last was the
   prophetic call for direct action; legal action; empowerment action:
   Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Judge: "It is not the function of
   our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the
   function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into
   error." CYPHERPUNKS MUST BE THE JOHNNY APPLESEED OF THE INFORMATION
   AGE. the sleazeball, who intends to make J Edgar look like a piker at
   surveillance, has the gleam of unabridged power in his eyes. Louis
   F[reeh,uck] is charming, even disarming, as he tells a Congressional
   committee: "We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country
   if we are not scrutinized carefully." (Jun '97) meaning the FBI will be
   the most powerful [feared] federal agency? really? I thought it was
   already, although the DEA and BATF have worked hard for the title, too.
   Supreme Justice Louis O. Brandeis said: "The greatest danger to liberty
   lurks in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but
   without understanding." and the [London] Electronic Telegraph, on
   Sunday's front page: Mr. Freeh has won $370 million (230 million) of
   funding for 2,000 new posts, boosted the number of active agents to
   more than 11,000, and expanded open-ended "domestic security
   operations" from 100 in 1995 to more than 800. Twenty-three new FBI
   offices are opening abroad. and more: But none of this will contain the
   director's ambitions or his power. He is now believed to be eyeing two
   other "secret police" forces - the Drug Enforcement Agency and the
   Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - with a long-term view to a
   takeover. F[reeh,uck] holds the key to the Clinton's' ambitions; the
   Clintons cite the Roosevelts as their mentors; Hillary even communes
   with the long dead Eleanor. Bubba's stated goals included extending
   FDR's "chicken in every pot" --he's just appeasing the crowd now.
   Leopards do not change their spots, but Bubba has shifted to the right
   with public opinion; he is just like the leopard: playing with his food
   until sufficient presidential powers have been accumulated by the
   default of Congress and the people. But, the INFORMATION REVOLUTION now
   stands in way of the Clinton plans; the Internet can destroy the media
   control now exercised by the acquiescence of the five Jewish media
   barons. In fact, it is destroying their monopoly. THE CONTROL OF
   INFORMATION IS THE CONTROL OF POWER. Why does F[reeh,uck] hold the key?
   Because his job is to sell the Congress on strangling the information
   revolution before it destroys truthless governments F[reeh,uck]'s
   masters understand and control. Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated
   on 4 Mar 33 stating: "I am prepared under my constitutional duty to
   recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a
   stricken world may require. These measures, or such other measures as
   the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek,
   within my constitutional authority, to bring to speedy adoption. But in
   the event that the Congress shall fall to take one of these two
   courses, and in the event that the national emergency is still
   critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then
   confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument
   to meet the crisis broad Executive power to wage a war against the
   emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were
   in fact invaded by a foreign foe." and, on 9 Mar 33, 5 days later, FDR
   extracted from an uniformed and essentially special session of
   Congress: "Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives
   of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
   Congress hereby declares that a serious emergency exists and that it is
   imperatively necessary speedily to put into effect remedies of uniform
   national application." which was based on the War Powers Act (trading
   with the Enemy) of 1917 which was hastily revised to include US
   Citizens which had been exempted. Next, FDR "franchised" the banks,
   "licensed" agriculture and so on. But, to render the citizens powerless
   and to confiscate all assets so the national state was the ultimate
   owner, and therefore able to pledge the people for credit to the
   international bankers, the fundamental monetary system changed:
   "Whenever in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury, such action
   is necessary to protect the currency system of the United States, the
   Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, may require any or all
   individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations to pay and
   deliver to the Treasurer of the United States any or all gold coin,
   gold bullion, and gold certificates owned by such individuals,
   partnerships, associations and corporations." which closed the loop and
   made every US citizen chattel as FDR pledged the good faith and credit
   of the United States to the international bankers --in return, an
   unbelievable flood of credit was available since the good faith and
   credit of the United States is "We the People...." but FDR sold us
   downstream into a debt financed economy from which there is no escape;
   we are still there, the debt service is destroying any permanent
   economy AND total collapse under the debt load is bequeathed to our
   children. Congress repealed FDR's rubber stamp for the "President" in
   1973, but the War Powers Act remains, still modified to treat US
   citizens as the enemy. and the power of the "President" to make those
   regulations, and the automatic approval are enshrined for current and
   future Presidents in Title 12 USC 95(b) "The actions, regulations,
   rules, licenses, orders and proclamations heretofore or hereafter
   taken, promulgated, made, or issued by the President of the United
   States or the Secretary of the Treasury since March the 4th, 1933,
   pursuant to the authority conferred by subdivision (b) of Section 5 of
   the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, are hereby approved and
   confirmed." The real issue is the President and the fat cat power
   brokers can get away with these shenanigans
   __as_long_as_the_people_let_them__. We are still under the Rule of
   Necessity. We are still in a declared state of national emergency, a
   state of emergency which has existed, uninterrupted, since 1933. FDR's
   licensing agencies were rather trivial in number; today there are
   thousands of them, many with their own administrative courts. FDR took
   away our common law when he bankrupted America, which is a national
   corporation under the Hague convention (courtesy of Stanton and Seward
   after the Civil War). Bankruptcy is a contract, and we are the bait,
   subject to that court, which is in effect an Admiralty court, and we
   are "licensed" to literally exist by FDR's Social Security Number
   schema. and every courtroom now flies the fringed Admiralty flag where
   habeas corpus is a privilege, not a right, if it exists at all. This is
   the importance of Louis F[reeh,uck]. He, and Janet Reno as the DOJ
   rubber stamp, are holding the collar for your neck. They are selling it
   to you little by little, or even all at once. Why Louis F[reeh,uck]?
   Madison Avenue style with credentials; he can sell the program.
   F[reeh,uck] is the front man, the schill. Machiavelli, in his
   "Discourses of Livy," acknowledged that great power may have to be
   given to the Executive if the State is to survive, but warned of great
   dangers in doing so. He cautioned: Nor is it sufficient if this power
   be conferred upon good men; for men are frail, and easily corrupted,
   and then in a short time, he that is absolute may easily corrupt the
   people." sleazeball's comments are scarfed by Congress, sleazeball's
   candor rocks their cradles, sleazeball shows them private morality
   plays about a populace running wild with crypto-anarchy, running wild
   to burn out the offices of central power... in other words: DEPRIVE
   THEM CONGRESSCRITTERS OF THEIR FREE LUNCH AND IMMUNITY. is it not odd
   that the more the government tries to abridge our free speech rights,
   the more they want to confiscate our weapons? free speech is a weapon
   of democracy! privacy is a weapon of democracy! cryptography is a
   weapon of democracy! We are not fighting with guns and explosives this
   time, armed insurrection against the power of the Federal government is
   suicidal --we are fighting for our lives and the right to live our
   lives with words: the ability to hear those words _before_ government
   censors and spin doctors render them useless lies. Bubba can not win a
   war of truth and information; we can/ The Marquis de Sade: Are not laws
   dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy
   with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you
   will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest
   actions appear. however, anarchy is the key word that ignites even the
   ACLU against your cause; it even makes bedfellows of Pat Buchanann and
   the homosexual/priest/congressman from Massachusetts... pure anarchy,
   by definition, does not work, anyway. forget it. get the concept out of
   your systems as it inflames everyone and all other reason is lost in
   the screaming and police batons. Even Teddy Roosevelt called for the
   complete extermination of anarchists, to be hunted like vermin. give it
   up; or go to your private island and fly your rattlesnake flag. even
   Anguilla will not tolerate anarchists. just give us our REAL
   constitutional rights as Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, Adams, and
   friends intended; give us constitutionalists on the Supreme Court, not
   bleeding hearts, statists, and central power freaks. get the Feds out
   of cradle to grave big government and let the people determine their
   religion and morality. give us freedom of speech, freedom to bear arms,
   freedom from unreasonable searches, freedom not to incriminate
   ourselves, and repeal the 14th Amendment so we can have states' rights
   again. if our Constitution were permitted to govern as it was intended,
   and the states obeyed the precepts endowed to not further limit the
   rights of the people, America would be the home of the free, not big
   government, not freeloaders and the welfare state; not the leftovers of
   a once great nation. give us the rights Abraham Lincoln cherished
   lovingly: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for
   themselves." let _them_, not me, live the downside. George Washington,
   in his farewell address, warned: "... change by usurpation; for through
   this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the
   customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed." cypherpunk
   philosopher kings: pick up your picks and shovels, get your hands
   dirty, and start digging in; it's going to be a long and difficult
   campaign and the tactics needed to expose F[reeh,uck]'s true intentions
   as the schill for the Clintons who are schills for the elitist leading
   the destruction of American democracy. The Congressional compromise
   love match season isn't over yet; the schmoozers and lobbyists, like so
   many furry rats, still wander the dark halls and tunnels looking for
   the last, late in the season, clandestine and obscene fuck. any whore
   will do. lobbyists have long reputations for selling out the interests
   of their paymasters; the lobbyists are so much a part of the Washington
   culture that they have _no_ morality or moral position --it is all
   about who they can claim to have influenced --what difference does it
   make if it is contrary to the client --the art of the deal, protect
   their own position and find newer, richer clients --whores! logrolling
   and porkbarrel voting --but never go home without a deal; used car
   salesmanship: get your man. I can hear the lobbyists whining now as
   they are called on the carpet: "aw, come on Mac, we got you a
   compromise from LEA demands..." never realizing that there is such an
   action as NO bill, they sell out half our rights blocking legislation
   which would never happen. they claim they got back half. what half?
   --some unknown half that we _never_ lost! that is why: The 10
   Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463
   words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words; and: A recent
   federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911
   words. (The Atlanta Journal) send the quisling Neville Chamberlains to
   the gas chambers! the public needs to be educated, not in crypto, but
   in the horrors of an oligarchy which intends to destroy the fundamental
   freedoms on which we stand. publish his credit records; publish his
   medical records --tell his neighbors about his visits from Child
   Protective Services... then Joe Coach Potato will figure out he needs
   something AFTER he figures out there are fuckors and fuckees, and he's
   on the short end of that stick. [pardon my French] then, and only then,
   will the masses understand privacy --when they have lost it. either we
   show the people before they lose everything to uncle, or... just dump
   it on the table to show everyone just how much uncle knows about _you_.
   Attila's thought for the day: Now, with a black jack mule you wish to
   harness, you walk up, look him in the eye, and hit him with a 2X4 over
   the left eye. If he blinks, hit him over the right eye! He'll
   cooperate. --so will politicians. Louis F]reeh,uck], did you really
   state this hoping everyone would think you are joking? "We are
   potentially the most dangerous agency in the country if we are not
   scrutinized carefully." Louis F[reeh,uck], you obviously know that
   telling the truth, before the truth is really the truth, disarms your
   opposition since they can plainly see that it is not true. there is a
   limit to what you can endure before you must stand to be counted --so I
   will loudly echo Tim's sentiment: + +When Cypherpunks are called
   "terrorists," we will have done our jobs. + -- "Experience keeps a dear
   school, but fools will learn in no other." --Benjamin Franklin
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