Asscruft Puffery
At 07:42 AM 10/26/01 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: Deliberate vagueness on Asscruft's part, I suspect. As I understand it, He is strutting and puffing like a rooster who watches his hens being taken away by a fox. At least Reno was scary, neither are convincing.
Re: RIAA Legal Analysis
At 07:20 AM 10/3/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An excellent technical analysis from the RIAA legal dept. Any errors of transcription are likely my own - see the original at http://www.fuckedcompany.com/extras/riaa_memo.cfm for as long as it is there... My favorite part is the last paragraph, where they talk of getting FastTrack to roll over on MusicCity! I wonder if they violated any terms in the EULA during their reverse engineering.. Material Contribution o FastTrack [XEROX] creates and licenses software primarily used for the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works. o FastTrack [ADOBE] created and controls encryption that ensures that the network remains closed and insulated from outside monitoring. o [YAHOO] Provides a dynamic list of available supernodes where content can be exchanged (possibly through the .38 server). o [YAHOO/GOOGLE] Continually updates the list of available supernodes and communicates that information to users (likely through the .34 server). o [YAHOO] FastTrack, MusicCity and Grockster maintain log-in servers.
Re: America needs therapy
At 03:48 PM 9/30/01 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: and you know that junkies will do whatever it takes to get their next fix. Hey, you should have seen what California was paying for hits of natural gas early in the summer... As long as you get a reliable, clean supply you can be healthy productive (like the founder of John's Hopkins, a medical morphine addict). America just needs to get a better supplier than those flaky arabs who are always having violent family spats. 'for, while it may only be a cynic who questions the benign intent of their current rulers, it would surely be a fool who believed that such benevolence is assured in the future.
Re: [FREE] stratfor (fwd)
At 04:08 PM 9/30/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: This is IMHO naive. Have you ever been in a brawl? Have you ever been in a brawl where one side (or both) has friends? Balkans, just before WWI. Poison gas followed that one (too).
Operation Lingering Pain (Re: [FREE] stratfor (fwd))
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:25:08AM -0700, David Honig wrote: Yes. Though these days they have Emergency Powers for everything, and chronic, continually extended 'Emergencies'. I've always enjoyed the regular declarations of emergencies required to keep the encryption export control regime active. If an emergency exists for decades, can it still be properly called one? I guess so, if it's still emerging. A difficult birth, perhaps. Heh, if labor takes too long you go in for a Caesarian. Damn, those Romans showing up again... Maybe that's what they mean by a surgical strike... --- Bluffs will be published if comical but otherwise ignored. -JY
RE: Mind control: U.S. Measures May Incite Domestic Terror
At 11:21 PM 9/25/01 -0500, Aimee Farr wrote: And who would be we ? And who are they ? We - The People. They - Anybody that has expressed a sincere desire to blow the people up and has warranted a threat-rating. Clue: your herders, the USG, wants to blow you up (if male between 18-25). Or if you have an alternate religion, pharmacist, number of spouses, bankers, etc. The USG wants to blow you up if you're palestinian and want your land back. The USG wants to blow you up if you're impeding the USG interests inside your homeland. The USG has become Britain of 200+ years ago. Or Rome of 2000+. With all the consequences. I am speaking in the context of U.S. domestic organizations with terrorist inclinations, not OBL and his like, of course. So am I. Some proposals fit into the apocalyptic visions of some groups. Shades of PROJECT MEGIDDO and so forth. Well write it up in your thesis, or your report to your handlers. How many 'groups' do you monitor 'Ms. Aimee'? ... Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer
500 lb laser guided respect for your culture
At 09:46 PM 9/22/01 -0700, pseudolicious wrote: GOVERNMENT TRIPPING OVER RELIGIOUS RHETORIC=BY SARAH LUBMAN SJMercury News For the second time in less than a week, the U.S. government had damage control to do because of its religion-infused rhetoric. The Pentagon on Thursday backed away from the code name for its anti-terrorist offensive, ``Operation Infinite Justice,'' for fear of offending Muslims. Heh, right now you could sell a lot of those (since withdrawn) Nikes with Allah's name accidentally in the tread. At least in the Homeland (tm) they'd sell. There's hardly enough lube-groove on a .223 round to hold enough pig-grease to make a difference... Maybe SpecOps gets hollowpoints...
The Guillotine Is Not Obsolete
At 04:33 PM 9/24/01 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: I wonder how many people on this list would qualify as sympathetic to terrorist causes, a very vague phrase which could mean almost anything. By MARC HUMBERT Associated Press Writer ALBANY, N.Y. -- One third of New Yorkers favor establishing internment camps for individuals who authorities identify as being sympathetic to terrorist causes, according to a poll from the Siena College Research Institute. So if we propose that maybe, after doing the requisite cratering, we *do* leave the arabs and the rest of them to their own family feuds, we're sympathizers? How about if we propose executing the Saudi kings and making the fucking place a protectorate (letting their women drive cars for a change)? Where does that put us? Can we get the Budweiser concession at Mecca, or do the Czechs get that? CivilEPunks: How many megatons would it take to extend the Mediterranean to the Gulf?
UK lameness, with apologies to Brown, Trei, etc.
[On MI6 deep cover agents] They are the closest thing the intelligence services have to James Bond. They are even licensed to kill but only in self-defence. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/4326959 [ LOL. Here in the states, we don't need a *license* to kill in self defense. You don't ask permission for something that is your birthright. ] A MASSIVE 85 per cent of British people want identity cards introduced in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United States, it was revealed yesterday. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/4326804 [ How about ear-tags? There must be plenty left over from the UK livestock industry... ] [ Yes I know, the US will be there in a decade or two... ]
Larry Ellison, Nazi Collaborator: Oracle for Natl ID
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/ellsn092301.htm Idea driven by security concerns BY PAUL ROGERS AND ELISE ACKERMAN Mercury News Broaching a controversial subject that has gained visibility since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison is calling for the United States to create a national identification card system -- and offering to donate the software to make it possible. Under Ellison's proposal, millions of Americans would be fingerprinted and the information would be placed on a database used by airport security officials to verify identities of travelers at airplane gates. ``We need a national ID card with our photograph and thumbprint digitized and embedded in the ID card,'' Ellison said in an interview Friday night on the evening news of KPIX-TV in San Francisco. ``We need a database behind that, so when you're walking into an airport and you say that you are Larry Ellison, you take that card and put it in a reader and you put your thumb down and that system confirms that this is Larry Ellison,'' he said. `Absolutely free' Ellison's company, Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, is the world's leading maker of database software. Ellison, worth $15 billion, is among the world's richest people. ``We're quite willing to provide the software for this absolutely free,'' he said. Calls for national ID cards traditionally have been met with fierce resistance from civil liberties groups, who say the cards would intrude on the privacy of Americans and allow the government to track people's movements. But Ellison said in the electronic age, little privacy is left anyway. ``Well, this privacy you're concerned about is largely an illusion,'' he said. ``All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy. Right now, you can go onto the Internet and get a credit report about your neighbor and find out where your neighbor works, how much they earn and if they had a late mortgage payment and tons of other information.'' Attempts by the Mercury News to reach Ellison for further comment Saturday were unsuccessful. Many questions about the proposal remain unanswered, such as whether foreign nationals would be required to have a card to enter the country. The hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks are not believed to have been U.S. citizens. In the TV interview with anchorman Hank Plante, Ellison said shoppers have to disclose more information at malls to buy a watch than they do to get on an airplane. ``Let me ask you. There are two different airlines. Airline A says before you board that airplane you prove you are who you say you are. Airline B, no problem. Anyone who wants the price of a ticket, they can go on that airline. Which airplane do you get on?'' Oracle has a longstanding relationship with the federal government. Indeed, the CIA was Ellison's first customer, and the company's name stems from a CIA-funded project launched in the mid-1970s that sought better ways of storing and retrieving digital data. Civil libertarians said caution is needed. ``It strikes me as a form of overreaction to the events that we have experienced,'' said Robert Post, a constitutional law professor at the University of California-Berkeley. ``If we allow a terrorist attack to destroy forms of freedom that we have enjoyed, we will have given the victory to them. This kind of recommendation does just that.'' Post said while such a system may catch some criminals, it could be hacked or faked or evaded by capable terrorists. Nor is it clear that such a system would have foiled the Sept. 11 attacks, he said. Strong support But polls last week show many Americans support a national ID card. In a survey released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center for the People the Press, seven of 10 Americans favored a requirement that citizens carry a national identity card at all times to show to a police officer upon request. The proposal had particularly strong support from women. There was less support for government monitoring of telephone calls, e-mails and credit card purchases. The FBI
French Nazis censor internet site
Thursday September 20 1:12 PM ET http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010920/wr/attack_france_internet_dc_1.html Frenchman Probed for Web Site Applauding Attacks PARIS (Reuters) - A Frenchman who allegedly set up an internet site applauding the deadly attacks on U.S. landmarks and urging Muslims to fight a holy war is being investigated for encouraging suicide acts, judicial sources said Thursday. Smain Bedrouni is under formal judicial investigation after being accused of creating stcom.net, a U.S.-based Web site that calls for ``jihad.'' Endorsing suicide attempts which aim to kill others is illegal in France. The daily newspaper Le Figaro said the site was blocked earlier this week by hackers but was soon accessible again to the public after it squeezed space on the server of a U.S. company. France has been swift to clamp down on extremist or racist Web sites. A French judge made headlines last year with a controversial ruling that Yahoo! Inc. block French citizens' access to its U.S.-based auction site featuring Nazi memorabilia. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have been on the lookout for sites in their networks that incite violence since last week's terror attacks on the United States in which 6,000 people were killed or are missing.
Re: somewhat encouraging...
At 07:34 PM 9/20/01 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote: I was saying to a friend not half an hour ago that maybe our generation needs a Vietnam. I'm at once sad and glad to see that it's starting. Yes but the image of congressvermin hanging onto the skids of a copter as it pulls away from the capital, as they vacate DC, is refreshing.
Afghanistan Gems
The gem industry was helping the militant Afghans raise money back when they were US allies. In the bios below, helping the Mujahideen is listed as a cool thing, for both locals and US folks. http://www.gems-afghan.com/symposium/speakers.htm Anwar Pacha was born in Nuristan. He and his father, Fazel Manan Pacha, joined the Jihad in 1979. Together they organized the tribes, established hospitals and assigned doctors to care for the Mujahideen. From his great grandfather to present, his family has maintained leadership and a friendly relationship with other tribes in Northeastern Afghanistan. He has many followers in Mohamand, Safi, Salarzi, Mahmoond, Gujur, Shinwari tribes. Without these peoples, mining of gemstones is not possible. Mr. Aref Hanifi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has been involved in the Import-Export Business between the US, Europe, China, India, and Hong Kong. After this he was involved in helping the Mujahideen, in particular, Khalil Nuristani and Ubydullah Niazi of Northern Afghanistan (Kapisa). Mr. Bowersox received his BBA degree from Western Michigan University where he continued his post-graduate studies in the field of finance and investments. After graduation he joined the United States Army and obtained the rank of Major during the Viet Nam war. After his honorable discharge from the US Army, he worked in the gem industry in Brazil, Burma, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and Thailand. In 1973 he began working and surveying the gem mines of Afghanistan. During 1976 he was awarded the exclusive rights for the export of lapis to the United States. After the Russian invasion, Mr. Bowersox worked with the Mujahideen in developing the gem mines in Afghanistan. This entailed many potentially dangerous trips into Afghanistan during the war. In 1997, he was appointed as consultant to the Minister of Mines and Industry-Government of Afghanistan.
Banning strong encryption would prove as ineffective as shutting down Napster
Banning strong encryption would prove as ineffective as shutting down Napster, From some agitprop The Terrorists Are Winning the Cyber War http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-091901techspy.story
Re: IP: Osama bin Laden and crypto (fwd)
At 05:19 AM 9/18/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words these twits we pay to run our government violate the privacy of another individual by disclosing internal government documents (audio tapes) on an irrelevant conversation bin Laden has with his mother to third parties who have no business with it. incredible You should hear the tapes of Monica Bill they have!
ghost of steve jackson
And Microsoft has postponed the October launch of its latest version of Flight Simulator, which offers the ability to fly into buildings. http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAPD9W4SRC.html Well I feel much safer now.
more satellite images of WTC
JY has some overhead WTC images at cryptome.org; see also http://www.spot.com/september11.htm
Re: On Internet and social responsibility
At 11:05 PM 9/14/01 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote: Joe -- I'm not calling in question their right to publish; Then what is your point? BTW, if you look at the First Ammendment protections closer, they are not guaranteeing absolute right of free speech. Learn the American law before you invoke it to defend your point of view. Wrong. I'm tired of absolutists who cannot see that there's no such thing as absolute good or absolute evil. Speech can be very dangerous. What are you afraid of? This is a conflict of ideologies, not nations or religions. What do you think is ideology - if not speech? How do you suppress ideology if you let it spread unhampered? With more speech. That site was spreading lies for a long time and is well-known in Russia as an example of American hypocrisy. So is CNN, what is your point? And a Russian calling a fuckistan web site lies is just hilarious. Go back and ask your masters what you should think. Don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear ---Lou Reed, Last Great American Whale
Burning airlines give you so much more
t 11:51 AM 9/15/01 -0700, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: Heh. Perhaps the suggestion that such terrorism could be stopped if everyone were to be converted to Christianity wasn't such a crazy idea. The Irish Problem would not be with us if the Romans had killed all the islanders instead of leaving some alive. Lots of problems go away when we are domesticated/pogrommed to the point of uniformity. The Crusades have been going on for hundreds of years. That a piece-o'-shit DC reporter should want to continue them is offensively ahistorical but not surprising. There's a reason its illegal to wear a burkha in Turkey. Interface (boundary) areas are always interesting. Ask the Albanians. Make religion illegal, lots of stupid problems disappear. When I got back home I found a message on the door Sweet Regina's gone to China crosslegged on the floor Of a burning jet that's smoothly flying Burning airlines give you so much more How does she intend to live when she's in far Cathay I somehow can't imagine her just planting rice all day Maybe she will do a bit of spying With microcameras hidden in her hair I guess Regina's on a plane a Newsweek on her knees While miles below the curlews call from strangely stunted trees The painted sage sits just as though he's flying Regina's jet disturbs his wispy beard Brian Eno, Burning airlines give you so much more
Re: Pakistan's Price: $30bbn per trick
At 12:18 PM 9/16/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears Pakistan has closed the deal: we retire thirty billion in their debt, and they agree to act as our proxy. Damn they're cheap! Personally, I would have held out for a *lot* more... They should get the Serbs to negotiate; they got $100 million for turning in Milosevic to the US. But with CI chiefs in FBI, CIA coming in at around a million each, they may have gone for the easy deal... Fox News just interviewed a Catholic priest who blessed the future violence.
DoJ claims to have subpeona'd reporters phone records 13 times/decade
DoJ claims to have subpeona'd reporters phone records 13 times/decade http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA94IS6BRC.html
police tracking activists (the more things change...)
September 6, 2001 By VIK JOLLY and TONY SAAVEDRA The Orange County Register ANAHEIM -- Detectives compiling information on Latino activists used an investigative technique typically reserved for investigating organized crime, drug networks and street gangs, according to a former police captain. Police, under orders from Chief Roger Baker, created organizational charts on five Latino activists who complained about alleged police misconduct. Baker presented the confidential report Nov. 14, 2000, to the City Council in a closed-door briefing. Retired Capt. Marc Hedgpeth said the charts showing the activists and their connections to community groups were part of a process called link analysis, often used to outline conspiracies. Hedgpeth, who headed Anaheim's intelligence unit for four of his 25 years with the department, said the process in Anaheim is almost never used on non-criminals. To my knowledge just looking at the report, I can't think of a time when we ever used a link analysis process to deal with people who are not suspected of any kind of criminal conduct, said Hedgpeth, who competed with Baker for the chief's post. At least four of those people who were attacked by Baker, we never suspected them of any kind of criminal conduct. snip http://www.ocregister.com/local/chief00906cci1.shtml
sued for spying on employees inside your own house
Posted: September 6, 2001 06:02 PM (WSVN, JUST ONE STATION) Talk show host Rosie O'Donnell is being sued by former members of her security staff. They claim she spied on them and illegally recorded their conversations at her South Florida mansion. Although she doesn't live down here all the time...Rosie O'Donnell is part of the South Florida celebrity scene. And now like many celebs before her, she finds herself on the wrong end of a lawsuit. Rosie O'Donnell is a superstar. But she's lost three of her fans. Chris Delia, Steve Rubio and Ted Van Rijan have filed a lawsuit against Rosie and two security firms. They say while working security at her star island home - their conversations were illegally recorded by a device hidden in smoke detector. All had worked for her for years and say they felt close to the star and her four children. Steve Rubio, Security Guard said, We developed a bond with the kids you know, we were the male figures, the dominate male figures in their lives pretty much. But the men say any feeling of family evaporated when they were fired after they complained about the hidden recordings. Steve Rubio, Security Guard said, It's especially hurtful because you basically feel betrayed. They say if she had apologized , they wouldn't have filed a lawsuit. Instead Steve says he got a phone call from an irate Rosie. Steve Rubio, Security Guard said, And she was just yelling and screaming and cursing at me and you know it was - I was shocked to the point I couldn't even respond to her except to say I think it's probably best to speak, you know, to our attorney. All three men are private investigators and say they understand a star's need for privacy. They suspect they were recorded because Rosie was concerned about leaks to the media about her private life. Its something they say they never did. Steve Rubio, Security Guard said, Absolutely. And could you look Rosie in the eye and say - absolutely and she should know better - she should know that. But their lawyer says it was Rosie who violated their privacy. Russell Adler, Attorney says, My clients protected Rosie's family and their privacy and that was very important to them to do that - and Rosie didn't protect theirs. Steve Rubio, Security Guard said, We would never betray her the way she betrayed us - we would never do that. Expect Rosie O'Donnell to challenge that. she wasn't talking about the lawsuit - but her publicist denies any wrongdoing and says Rosie looks forward to defending herself in court. http://www.wsvn.com/extra/entertainment/box1/
Single-Number Plan Raises Privacy Fears
September 2, 2001 Single-Number Plan Raises Privacy Fears Technology: System would link telephones, faxes and Web addresses while creating giant databases. By JUBE SHIVER Jr., Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- A controversial technology under development by the communications industry that links Internet addresses with phone numbers has quietly picked up key government support as concern mounts among critics that the technology will broadly undermine privacy. The technology, known as e-number, or ENUM, would link phone numbers to codes that computer servers use to route traffic on the Web. Proponents say the technology would improve communication for consumers and marketers alike. The industry envisions a sophisticated electronic address book that would be able to direct messages to virtually any fax machine, computer or telephone, using a new 11-digit e-number. As a result, a fax could be sent to someone who lacked a fax machine but had an e-mail address. Likewise, cell phone users would only have to key in 11-digits to send e-mail, not a cumbersome alphanumeric address. But privacy advocates fear the system could undermine online privacy and erode the security of the public phone system as well. They worry that the system would destroy a pillar of Internet privacy: the assumption by users that they enjoy anonymity in cyberspace. The government's endorsement of the technology, disclosed in interviews and outlined in an Aug. 21 letter distributed to an industry group, is seen as critical in pushing it forward. The United States does see merit in pursing discussions regarding implementation of a coordinated, global [system] . . . for ENUM, Julian E. Minard, a State Department advisor to the International Telecommunication Advisory Committee, wrote to representatives of ATT and other companies. But Minard cautioned in the letter that aspects of the technology advocated by industry go beyond what is prudent or necessary. ENUM is likely to be voluntary, requiring users to sign up for the service. But privacy experts say it will not be worth the time and investment the industry is making in the technology unless it is widely used. So they expect ENUM will be aggressively promoted. We believe that ENUM raises serious questions about privacy and security that need to be addressed before it's widely deployed, said Alan Davidson, associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a privacy watchdog group based in Washington. They are promoting this as a system that is going to make it really easy for people to find you in all kinds of ways. Well, we want to make sure that consumers can opt out if they don't want to be found. Today, vigilant Web surfers can maintain a high degree of anonymity because e-mail and other Web addresses contain little personal information. What's more, Web addresses under aliases can easily be created to cloak the identity of the sender. As a result, marketers have been forced to spend millions of dollars to get Web surfers to voluntarily give up personal information. By contrast, a phone number has a wealth of personal information associated with it, including a street address, billing records and dialing data. Marrying such information to Web addresses would represent a leap in private data warehousing in cyberspace and dramatically increase the risk of privacy invasions, experts say. Someone could write a program to query the ENUM database and obtain every line of your contact information and send spam to every communications device you own, said Chris Hoofnagle, legislative director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in
Aimee's sweet spot
At 10:42 AM 8/28/01 -0500, Aimee Farr wrote: BlackNet; Case History of a Practically Untraceable System for Buying and Selling Corporate and National Secrets to foreign adversaries, and to spur the collapse of governments. BlackPowder: Applied Chemistry for Defeating Knights With Swords With Application to Selling Bibles in venaculars and other Vatican Secrets allowing oppressed foreigners to join us, and to spur the collapse of feudalism.
D'oh ---Scarfo's password was his dad's number
Unable to crack the encryption code without a password, agents went back again with a search warrant and placed on his computer a high-tech device called a key logger, which monitors every keystroke. After nearly two months of surveillance, the FBI cracked his password: nds09813-050. A source close to the case later confirmed that it's Scarfo's father's prison identification number. The Feds had it all the time. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf20010823_686.htm
hacking NJ: All your professionals are ours
Wired.com pointed to http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/nyregion/24VOTE.html which is about putting public records online. This pointed to http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/director.htm which lists 'professionals' that NJ tracks. Heh, All their professionals are 0urs. A few minutes using the HTML CIRCUMVENTION/CRACKING tool Netscape and fnord Emacs and we've got a nice catalog. Physicians, architects, veterinarians, master plumbers, beauticians of NJ, your info is toast. The web page limits you to, e.g., 800 physicians per surname search; yet a search for S surnames yields 6974 MDs. How-to: Go there, pick a profession, e.g., doctors at http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/bme/docdir.htm Save as local, and edit the HTML. 1. Find POST. Prefix http://www.state.nj.us to the relative CGI URL earlier in that line. 2. Find OPTION. Add a few zeroes to the number of hit results there. Open the *local*, edited page in a browser. Enter a letter, e.g., s and select the larger number of results to return. If you enter . you get 59,192 matches. All the licensed MDs in NJ. Over 23M of HTML from A to T trtdbName/b/tdtdTERZUOLI,ROBERT,J /td/tr trtdbBusiness Name/b/tdtd /td/tr trtdbAddress/b/tdtd2481 STUART ST, BROOKLYN NY, 11229-5815/td/tr trtdbLicense Number/b/tdtdMA058265/td trtdbDisciplinary History/b/tdtdNone/td/tr trtdbStatus/b/tdtdInactive/td/tr trtd colspan=2hr/td/tr trtdbName/b/tdtdTESAR,JAMES,D /td/tr trtdbBusiness Name/b/tdtd /td/tr trtdbAddress/b/tdtd1002 VILLAGE LN , WINTER PARK FL, 32792-3416/td/tr trtdbLicense Number/b/tdtdMA044222/td trtdbDisciplinary History/b/tdtdNone/td/tr trtdbStatus/b/tdtdExpired/td/tr trtd colspan=2hr/td/tr trtdbName/b/tdtdTESCHNER,BERNARD /td/tr trtdbBusiness Name/b/tdtd /td/tr trtdbAddress/b/tdtd12 GREENRIDGE AVE , WHITE PLAINS NY, 10605-1238/td/tr trtdbLicense Number/b/tdtdMA011599/td trtdbDisciplinary History/b/tdtdNone/td/tr trtdbStatus/b/tdtdInactive/td/tr trtd colspan=2hr/td/tr trtdbName/b/tdtdTESLER,MAX,A /td/tr trtdbBusiness Name/b/tdtd /td/tr trtdbAddress/b/tdtd661 PALISADE AVE , ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS NJ, 07632-1800/td/tr trtdbLicense Number/b/tdtdMA028017/td trtdbDisciplinary History/b/tdtdNone/td/tr trtdbStatus/b/tdtdDeceased/td/tr trtd colspan=2hr/td/tr trtdbName/b/tdtdTESLUK,GREGORY,C /td/tr trtdbBusiness Name/b/tdtd /td/tr trtdbAddress/b/tdtdHOPKINSON HOUSE 2104 WASHNGTN , SQUARE SO PHILA PA, 19106 /td/tr trtdbLicense Number/b/tdtdMA041360/td trtdbDisciplinary History/b/tdtdNone/td/tr trtdbStatus/b/tdtdExpired/td/tr
McAfee patent on security services subscription
http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45897,00.html McAfee.com has won a patent for its system of delivering security-related software and services over the Internet, giving it a potential leg up in the emerging trend of subscription-based software. The patent, issued July 24 by the U.S. Patent Office, covers the technology behind McAfee's system, what co-inventor Srivats Sampath calls the company's secret sauce, as well as its subscription-based business model, the company said Monday. McAfee applied for the patent in 1998. The future of software is really going to be delivered as Web services and we have a component of that, said Sampath, McAfee's president and chief executive officer. The patent is a way to protect our investment. This doesn't close the door for competitors, it simply sets some boundaries for them, said Harry Fenik, chief executive officer of the Sageza Group, a market research firm. Now, any company or so-called application service provider looking to offer subscription- and Web-based software specifically in the security and PC-management arena will have to tread carefully to not infringe on McAfee's patent, or decide to pay McAfee licensing fees, Fenik said.
FBI Must Reveal Computer Snooping
Heh, the cut-out at the local computer store who has been working for the Feebs, adding a little extra free hardware, is going to need a quick change of address... http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010807/ts/crime_surveillance_dc_1.html FBI Must Reveal Computer Snooping Technique -Judge NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the government to reveal the high-tech computer snooping technique used by the FBI (news - web sites) to gather evidence against an alleged mobster. In a case that privacy advocates say smacks of Big Brother, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Politan ruled that the government must reveal the details of the computer monitoring system it used to gather evidence against Nicodemo Scarfo Jr., who is charged with running illegal gambling and loan-sharking operations for the Gambino crime family. Scarfo is the son of imprisoned mobster Nicodemo ``Little Nicky'' Scarfo. The case is believed to be the first in the nation in which federal agents installed a secret surveillance system in a personal computer system under search warrant, and the first to be tested in U.S. courts. The FBI recorded virtually every keystroke made on Scarfo's computer at his Belleville, New Jersey, business, including passwords, using a ``key logger'' device. Whether the system is hardware or software is unknown, prompting a motion by Scarfo's attorneys to reveal its makeup so they could have it analyzed and make a case to suppress the evidence it gathered. Politan ruled that in order to decide the lawfulness of the government surveillance, he must see a full report on how the device works, imposing an Aug. 31 deadline. ``In this new age of rapidly evolving technology, the court cannot make a determination as to the lawfulness of the government's search ... without knowing specifically how the search was effectuated,'' he wrote. ``This requires an understanding of how the key logger device functions. In most, if not all search and seizure cases, the court ... understands the particular method by which the search is executed. ... Because of the advanced technology used the court does not have the benefit of such an understanding.'' The government argued that revealing the workings of the system might jeopardize national security and endanger FBI personnel and those working with them. Politan gave the government 10 days to provide additional evidence as to why revealing the technology would endanger ongoing investigations and later national security operations.
lynx for mirroring? (Re: Advertisements on Web Pages)
At 10:41 PM 8/7/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I'm surprised no one has urged me to use Lynx. Is it still being used?) For very limited values of used, yes. Declan once gave a lynx command line that would download a website (recursing) less the images, of course. I found it didn't preserve file names or directory hierarchy, so it was less useful for mirroring sites I anticipated being oppressed. Can anyone recommend a better tool? For wintel?
reverse panopticon: faces of authority project (was Re: *Protecting* civil liberties with facial recognition)
At 07:20 AM 8/2/01 -0700, Brewster Kahle wrote: There do happen to be a large collection (very large) of web images in a free-to-use library, called the Internet Archive... In fact, these images are on a parallel supercomputer made up of hundreds of linux boxes, so if someone writes the software to do this detection we could run it on the images in the collection. Let me know how a public library can help. -brewster Mapping the faces to the meatspace occupations will be the hard part. You might start with the Kirkland, Washington list of police truenames...
Re: Spoilation, escrows, courts, pigs.
At 01:31 AM 8/1/01 -0700, Petro wrote: I say this is bullshit. By your vague (no plausible cites, just some 1L literatlisms), whispering is spoliation. Failure to archive tape recordings of conversations is spoliation. Use of encryption is spoliation. Drawing the curtains is spoliation. No, but destroying audio tapes, or blanking over bits of them *is*. Actually if Giotti found a tape recorder (or keyboard bug) in his house I'm pretty sure he'd do more than blank its bits... *legally*, and despite the obvious implication that someone's investigating something.. Behavior can't be 'contemptous' of court orders if there are none. You can't spoil evidence if the artifacts are not yet identified as evidence. Its not illegal for Condit to toss all the evidence of his fucking-anything-that-moves, because no judge has asked for it.
RE: WHERE IS DILDO? (was: The Martian Private-Socialist-Anarchist)
At 02:28 PM 7/26/01 -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote: Dr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is this pseudo-macho crap? It's an explanation of why I'm turning down the rhetoric. Where were you (and your pseudo-psychological crap) when I was turning UP the rhetoric? You have some kind of serious personality problem Sandfort. WHAT kind and HOW serious, oh wise one? Your clearly reasoned, diplomatically phrased and thoughtful missive has both touched and concerned me. :-( Don't worry Sandy, he's not using cypherpunks as the control population...
SirCam exposes telecom monopolist John Wehrung, Florida's Fast Net Now
John Wehrung[EMAIL PROTECTED] and SirCam volunteered to this list the script of an advert *against opening comm monopolies to others*, excerpted below. JW, your communication network was built using the State's Eminent Domain 'powers'. Therefore the historical monopoly company must open its racks to whoever wants to hook up. Buy a clue. Extracted Script: Attached are two scripts currently in production and a New script idea for a :60 second TV spot. Please let me know what you think. Thanks! IN ENGLISH SPANISH-- The following :30 second Spot is being cut in English Spanish by the Univision folks sometime before tomorrow @ noon. Imagine Government Taking your Car. Sound Ridiculous? :05:23 SECONDS OR LESS [Pause HASTA LAVISTA FRED] TIME:05 Seconds The County is considering Internet regulation,Which forces one company to hand over itscommunication network to competitors Its a bad idea that government just shouldnt do. :10:23 SECONDS OR LESS NEW RADIO :60 Second in English Spanish-- This spot has been cut in English and a cassette will be here tomorrow. The Spanish version will be cut also sometime tomorrow and be available for us Wednesday. Imagine if you had a company that gave people a product they liked at a price they could afford. You invest your time and money. Your company creates jobs helps the economy. Thats what American Free Enterprise is all about. But what if the government forced you to surrender your business to your competition, so your competitors could make and sell their products at your company. Would that be fair? Of course not. But local Government is talking about taking one Companies communication network and handing it over to competitors. Its called the Open access plan its a bad idea that will slow down high speed internet access and will raise prices. Call the Miami-Dade County commission today @ 305/375-5124 375-5124 and tell them the Open Access plan is a bad idea that Government Just shouldnt do. This message is brought to you by Florida Fast Net Now, committed to keeping government toll booths and roadblocks off the Information Super Highway. This is a BRAND NEW :60 Second Spot for TV that incorporates all changes up to date. CAR SCENARIO--#19 TUESDAY 9/2811:30AM :60 SECOND TV :07--THIS MESSAGE IS BROUGHT TO FLORIDA FAST NET NOWYOU BY FLORIDA FAST NET NOW DEDICATED TO KEEPING GOVERNMENTOFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY. :12--CAR SCENE: Full Beginning-- [Up to Imagine] :06--Imagine government takingyour car. Would that be fair? Of course not. :05--HASTA LA VISTA FRED :10--But the County Commission is beinglobbied on an Internet Regulation thatwould force one company to hand over its INTERNET TAKE OVER IS UNFAIRcommunication network to competitors. :05Its an unfair take over that will slow down Internet Access raise prices. TV INTERNET PRICES WILL GO UP :07--Call the County Commission Today and CONTACT MIAMI-DADE COUNTYtell them the Internet Take Over is a bad COMMISSION @ 305/375-5124 idea that Government just shouldnt do. SAY NO TO INTERNET TAKE OVER :06--CAR SCENE: End With car peeling out. John Wehrung 200 West College Avenue, Suite 308 Tallahassee, FL 32301 Voice: 850.681.6400 Fax: 850.681.7080 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX MEMORANDUM TO: STEVE WILKERSON (681-9676) FROM: JOHN WEHRUNG DATE: SEPTEMBER 27, 1999 SUBJECT: 3 SCRIPTS
Re: FC: Example of confidential email accidentally sent from FBI'S NIPC
At 09:48 PM 7/26/01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim's request for help was an elaborately detailed lie. And your point is? Tim didn't post for a couple weeks. When he was back, it was a new Tim. You need a med adjustment. I can handle all the Choate crap. I rest my case.
ref on DNA databases
Estonia, a country of 1.5 million in Northern Europe, launches a project building a national health and DNA database (see Science, Oct. 6 2000, Nature Biotech Nov 2000). This database will bring direct benefits to the Estonian people and to their healthcare. In addition to that, at the global level, it will offer a tremendously valuable tool for datamining to find disease susceptibility markers or disease genes. Above all, these databases could serve as an example of emerging foundations of the future personalized medicine through the use of information and gene technologies in the healthcare. I would like to introduce you the project, the legal, ethical and educational homework that has been done during the past one and a half years. Furthermore, I would like to draw your attention to technological requirements concerning information technology (incl. Databases) and genotyping that still need to addressed to make a full use of that information. http://www-smi.stanford.edu/events/abstracts/abstract_2000111393000563.html
On the turning away of hackers
At 11:25 AM 7/27/01 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Subcommander Bob wrote: turning off your computer turns away hackers Not if I have an axe. ]: Damnit, Alan, if you had prompted Leitl to say that you could have had the retort: Careful with that axe, Eugene.
not just iceland: more refs on more countries w/ DNA db
http://www.genomics.ee/media/scientprindi.html A good gene pool, like love, is where you find it. Now genomics researchers have two new ones to swoon over: one from Estonia, a crossroads of Scandinavian cultures and the northernmost of the former Soviet Union's Baltic republics; and from Tonga, an island kingdom half a world away where a Polynesian people has lived in near-perfect isolation se to 3,500 years. Tonga and Estonia laid final plans last November and December, respectively, for national gene pool exploration programs aimed at discovering disease-associated genes and developing therapies based on the discoveries.nbsp;/font/font pfont face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-seriffont size=-1They follow the trail blazed by Iceland,1 where for several years the gene pool of 275,000 Icelanders has been the fishing preserve of Reykjavik-based deCODE Genetics which is hunting for gene variants that affect serious, often chronic diseases by finding statistical links between Icelanders' genotypes and their inherited illnesses. The Tongan project will be a commercial affair run by AutoGen Ltd. of Melbourne, Australia, with permission of the Tongan Ministry of Health. Two organizations, one nonprofit, the other for-profit, will control Estonia's project; both are property of the Estonian government.nbsp;/font/font pbfont face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-seriffont size=-1Eesti Geenivaramu/font/font/b table BORDER=0 WIDTH=100% tr tdfont face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-seriffont size=-1Prior to the Estonian parliament's action of December 13, only the nonprofit Eesti Geenikeskus (the Estonian Genome Center Foundation) was in place; now it will be joined by Eesti Geenivaramu (the Estonian Genebank Foundation), the engine of the venture. Eesti Geenivaramu will carry out the project; Eesti Geenikeskus will own the data.nbsp;/font/font pfont face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-seriffont size=-1The project enjoys enormous popular support. A poll indicates 90 percent of 1.4 million Estonians like the idea of a big project with potential benefits to themselves, and that also helps the country's fledgling biotech industry. Individuals may freely access their own data, otherwise strictly secret, and get word if project research yields treatments that might be beneficial. If 1 million Estonians are genotyped within five years, as officials predict, Estonia will own the behemoth of population genotyping projects, the only one with a database sized in terabytes.nbsp;/font/font/td tdimg SRC=andreas.jpg height=311 width=250 pbfont face=Arial Balticfont size=-1Andres Metspalu/font/font/b hr SIZE=1 NOSHADE WIDTH=100%/td /tr /table font face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-seriffont size=-1The Estonian Genebank Foundation officially opens in March in the city of Tartu. Kickoff money of 20 million kroons (US$1.3 million) funds a pilot genotyping project scheduled to begin in the fall. But the real money--$100-150 million over five years--will come from payments for nonexclusive licenses for data access and intellectual property rights to drugs and diagnostics resulting from research. Part of the genebank foundation's mission is to sign up international partners, chiefly research institutes and biotech and pharmaceutical companies./font/font pfont face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-seriffont size=-1Which diseases the 10,000-patient pilot project will focus on hasn't been decided, but the search for volunteers will take advantage of patient group registries for cancer, Parkinson's disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes. Patients in for checkups will be invited to participate (strictly on a voluntary basis) by filling out extensive health questionnaires and donating 50 ml blood samples for DNA extraction.nbsp;/font/font pfont face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-seriffont size=-1When many genes influence an illness, as in heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, population genotyping is preferable to family studies. Family studies work well when a single gene underlies a disease. They rely on linkage analysis, where researchers find genetic markers matching disease inheritance patterns, and then use the markers to map the chromosomal region containing the gene as the first step toward its isolation. With polygenic diseases, where individual alleles seldom sharply increase the relative risk of disease, correlating genetic markers and inherited predisposition to disease requires genotyping hundreds or thousands of people. When gene hunting becomes a game of sifting through massive amounts of data, the Estonian project will show strength through numbers, says Andres Metspalu, the driving force of Estonia's gene pool expedition.nbsp;/font/font pfont face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-seriffont size=-1Estonians (average life span: 70 years) see themselves as representative westerners; they suffer the same diseases prevalent elsewhere in the West, in similar proportions. Ensconced by the Baltic Sea for some 5,000 years, they have not been isolated; crisscrossing contacts with neighboring
where's dildo? if he's not white, at Texas Southern University
Report: TSU Law School Admissions Too Easy The American Bar Association is asking Texas Southern University's law school to raise admission standards, effectively shutting the door to many black and Hispanic students that would likely not have been accepted at other state law schools. The request comes as part of a seven-year accreditation review of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law by the ABA. The law school, created in 1946 to allow blacks to attend a publicly funded law school, trains a majority of the state's black and Hispanic law students. Experts said that many TSU law students and graduates would likely not have been accepted at other state law schools because their college grade point averages and entrance exam scores were too low. The attrition rate is unconscionably high, and the bar passage rate remains the lowest among all law schools in the state of Texas, the Chicago-based ABA said in a report obtained by the Houston Chronicle. The report, citing statistics from the July 2000 Texas bar exam, said that 52 percent of TSU law school graduates passed the test on their first attempt, and 33 percent passed on subsequent attempts. The state-passing rate for those taking the exam for the first time on the same date was 82 percent, and 42 percent on second attempts. Of the 331 students who entered the TSU law school in the fall of 1999, only 201 maintained the required 2.0 grade point average needed to stay at the school by the end of the 2000 academic year, the report said. That gave the school a first-year attrition rate of 40 percent, more than four times the national average of 8.9 percent. Admissions standards have already been raised slightly to meet ABA concerns, said John Brittain, dean of the law school. He expects the school to retain its ABA accreditation, which is required by the state. The school must submit a plan to the ABA by November. Brittain said that he believes it is possible to raise admission standards to weed out many students who would not graduate or pass, but still provide an opportunity to attend law school to minorities who otherwise might not qualify. Raising admission standards presents a dilemma for the state of Texas because it has abolished affirmative action in higher education, Brittain said. The Thurgood Marshall School of Law is performing a special mission for the state by allowing many students to attend law school who would not have gained admission to other law schools. We want to continue fulfilling this historical mission of serving minorities. We have to do a little bit of both, raise admission standards and take educational risks. In the 1999-2000 academic year, TSU officials said that the school enrolled 92 percent of all black first-year law students attending the state's four public law schools and 52 percent of the first-year Hispanic students. In recent years, the average Law School Admissions Test score for students admitted to TSU has been 142, significantly below the national average of 150, the ABA said. The median grade point average for students admitted to TSU's law school has ranged from 2.67 to 2.76, compared with the national average of 3.06 to 3.10. The ABA report also said that TSU's law school does not have adequate resources to educate the large classes of approximately 300 students it has admitted in recent years. The ABA report said that the law building is too small, classes are crowded and that there is not enough space for clinical programs or student organizations. Brittain said that the university has pledged to spend $5 million to renovate the law school building and is considering spending another $5 million to build a new wing. He also said that the school will provide more training for the bar exam, strengthen its research and writing programs, and increase library funding. For more information, log onto the Thurgood Marshall School of Law Web site at www.tsulaw.edu.
RF toll transponders are debit cards (good for food fraud)
Thieves using stolen windshield toll transponders have charged about $4,000 worth of food at McDonald's, where the devices have been accepted as debit cards since April 2000, according to a Transportation Corridor Agencies spokeswoman. The transponders, which operate with a radio signal that credits tolls--and now cheeseburgers--to motorists' accounts, allows users to skip toll plazas. The agency receives 20 cents each time a McDonald's purchase is made with a FasTrak. Spokeswoman Clare Climaco said people should treat a transponder like a credit or debit card. They should take it out of their windshield and put it in a glove compartment or purse when they're not using it, she said. http://latimes.com/news/local/state/la-60199jul23.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dstate
Filetopia = gnutella + crypto
FYI: a gnutellish distrib P2P/search tool *with crypto*. For Wintel. From its doc: Filetopia is a free communications software that includes: instant messaging, chat, e-mail, a powerful file sharing system with a search engine, online friends list and message boards. What is unique to this software is the level of security and privacy that it provides. It uses a choice of strong ciphers and public key techniques for all communications and sophisticated techniques to protect your IP and thus make you truly anonymous and safe from attacks. . I've been running this P2P filesharer for a few days, its quite stable and fast even on a slow, old Win95 system (unlike many other P2P tools). I have no assoc. with Filetopia
Lawyer not charged for giving out police witnesses' addresses
Re: Kirkland police files, Jim Bell, cryptome, etc. Basically a lawyer gives the addresses of two police witnesses and gets off scott free. Well, a lil' fine from his guild. Are lawyers special objects now? http://latimes.com/news/local/la-59505jul21.story LOS ANGELES Judge Dismisses Charges Against Olson Attorney By ANNA GORMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge dismissed criminal charges Friday against Tony Serra, a defense attorney in the bomb conspiracy trial of alleged Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson. Serra had faced trial on misdemeanor charges that he disclosed the addresses and phone numbers of two police witnesses in a court document for Olson's upcoming case. He was scheduled to be tried July 30. The Los Angeles city attorney's office moved to drop the case after Serra agreed to pay $5,000 to the Police Memorial Foundation, snip
RE: What NAI is telling people
At 06:41 PM 7/16/01 -0700, John Young wrote: to sift for encryption using tools supplied by TLAs. NSA, for one, has the ability to spot encrypted communications -- most if not all of them. Probably not well-done stego posted to widely read lists.
more on tax protest
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/7/17/122855 Tuesday, July 17, 2001 1:27 p.m. EDT Tennessee Radio Talker Sets Record Straight on Tax Protest Over the weekend Tennessee newspapers were filled with reports of a near-riot at the State Capitol on Friday, after two Nashville talk radio hosts exhorted their listeners to march on the Legislature in protest over plans for a new statewide income tax. WLAC-AM's Phil Valentine and WWTN-FM's Steve Gill's call to arms prompted what the Memphis Commercial Appeal described as a sometimes violent altercation between police and up to 2,000 protesters, an episode legislators called harrowing and intimidating. I was in fear for my safety last night, state senator David Fowler later told Gill. I was afraid someone might get shot. Reports of widespread window breaking made the protesters seem even more riotous. But Valentine tells NewsMax.com that the disruption, small as it was, was the result of police overreaction - more than 100 cops, some clad in riot gear, who were summoned to the scene by Gov. Don Sundquist, who backs the tax hike. I began my remote broadcast in front of the Capitol and the people kept coming, the Tennessee radio talker explained. Suddenly, the Nashville Police moved in. One motorcycle cop began ticketing motorists for horn honking. They brought in cops on horseback. The state police donned riot gear. Only later did Valentine learn that, as he put it, some idiot had thrown a rock through the reception area window of the governor's office. The incident sent state troopers into overdrive, the radioman told NewsMax.com. Two different people in cars were pulled from their vehicles and handcuffed, Valentine said. One was a gentleman who dared ask a cop his name after he witnessed him verbally abusing a woman in her car. The second was a mother, riding with her husband and 3-year-old daughter. According to the afternoon-drive-time talker, when the officer told the woman to go home she replied that it was her constitutional right to protest. He shot back, I'll show you a constitutional right. In a flash, the officer swung into action. According to Valentine, he began to pull the woman from the passenger side of the car, then handcuffed her and threw her in the back of a squad car in front of her hysterical little girl. After the altercation, Valentine had both protesters on his show to describe their ordeals. Besides the folks he interviewed, Valentine says a local television news station caught a state trooper on videotape choking one protester, then throwing him to the ground and dragging him by one foot while the guy showed no resistance. Tennessee media reports painting the demonstrators as a rabble-rousing mob hell-bent on violence are a complete distortion, the popular Nashville host insisted. I was right in the middle of it. We had everything from soccer moms to grandmas and kids of all ages. It was more of a patriotic Fourth of July-type atmosphere than anything else. - Ok. That's pretty much my limit. ---Black Unicorn
