Declan sold again

2000-05-17 Thread George
http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36373,00.html Lycos, Terra Merge Wired News Report 1:45 p.m. May. 16, 2000 PDT NEW YORK -- Spanish Internet group Terra Networks SA agreed Tuesday to buy U.S. Internet search company Lycos Inc. for $12.5 billion in stock, or $97.55 a share, in a move to

Internet-info-based attack on senior U.S. military personnel

2000-05-17 Thread George
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Military-Web-Fraud.html N.J. Man Admits to Web Credit Theft Filed at 8:27 a.m. EDT, May 17, 2000 By The Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- A New Jersey man has admitted to a scheme in which he used personal information gleaned from the Internet to

bumped off of list again

2000-05-31 Thread George
There was that first hiccup a couple weeks ago... I had tried sending a subscribe to cyberpass, got back the AUTH cookie, sent it back, got a message that the subscribe was now being sent to the list owner, then nothing. Looked up traffic at inet-one/cypherpunks, saw a new node in Germany, sent

Re: pseudonymous remailers

2000-06-05 Thread George
The Zorn (not to be confused with Zork) wrote: #I'm a columnist for the chicago tribune and someone has called my #attention to the remailers on the net that allow you to construct #the FROM: field as well as the TO: (manicmail; zoubidoo are two I've #found). What do you

Re: [FLAME] Choate's web page spams of this list!

2000-06-09 Thread George
Sunder wrote: # Jim Choate wrote: # # http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-08-1998/swol-08-linuxsparc.html # -- # # WHAT THE FUCK CHOATE? WHY ARE YOU SPAMMING THIS ENTIRE LIST WITH 48K WEB PAGES # DESCRIBING HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON SOLARIS? WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH #

More FBI anti-privacy

2000-07-11 Thread George
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB963264584706292829.htm July 11, 2000 FBI's System to Covertly Search E-Mail Raises Legal Issues, Privacy Concerns By NEIL KING JR. and TED BRIDIS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is using

Airport Iris scanning

2000-07-24 Thread George
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/19/iris.scan.idg/index.html Iris scans take off at airports July 19, 2000 by Michael Meehan (IDG) -- In one of the first public applications of eye-scanning technology, two airports this week will begin scanning passengers' irises as part of an effort

New Internet Privacy Services

2000-09-18 Thread George
ZKS and Anonymizer have the wrong business model in terms of what consumers want. They're too techie. What people (as opposed to cypherpunks ;-) want is privacy AND the ability to make purchases without spreading their CC# all over. This is the hottest area of privacy services, and competition

soft handwriting

2000-10-01 Thread George
Tonight's 60" had curmudgeon Andy Rooney and some handwriting experts. They went over a Bush campaign letter that had blue cursive writing of Dubya. (mass reproduced). The experts agreed: it was computer generated from a number of samples of Bush's handwritings. Anyone familiar with this

U.S., EU move toward cybercrime treaty

2000-10-04 Thread George
Pull up URL for full article. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/zd/zd7.htm "When the U.S. government cannot get a controversial policy adopted domestically, they pressure an international group to adopt it, and then bring it back to the U.S. as an international treaty - which obliges

ECHELON under European criminal indictment!

2000-10-19 Thread George
AH HA HA HA HA http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/nb/nb4.htm 10/17/00- Updated 05:39 PM ET Criminal charges filed against 'Echelon' From: Newsbytes News Network By Steve Gold A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Berlin has filed criminal complaints in Germany against the

More WWW insecurity

2000-11-03 Thread George
Also at the Wired site, but they now have animated advertising that won't stop when you tell it to. (Compaq Proliant crap) http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/03/technology/03HACK.html November 3, 2000 Hacker Defaces Pro-Israel Web Site By JOHN SCHWARTZ The Web site for the American Israel

Re: Bush took ss# off his Texas license!!!

2000-11-04 Thread George
Kaos wrote: # There's no SS# on a Texas DL, never has been. There is a DL# that is 8 # digits in length (and related to time and place of initial license # application, not SS#). Then someone in tx.politics was wrong (and I passed it along). But now I'm confused (no cracks please): why change

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread George
less than an hour before the #polls were to have closed, the election board was to be kept #open until 11:59 p.m. # #Lawyers for Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush #were unsuccessful in having the case heard in federal court. #Moments after Baker's rul

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread George
commerce wrote home.com # The obvious complaint is that only select polling areas were #given extended hours, when it would have been just as easy to #extend voting hours for the entire region If all polling places had their hours extended, does TimMay withdraw his objections? And

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread George
TimMay Moroned: #Having the courts extend the hours so that more inner city mutants #can stagger down to the polls is inexcusable. Why are you referring to people you don't know as mutants? TimMay Moroned: #I expect "The polling hours are 7 a.m. to 8 p.m." to be upheld. #People

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread George
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TimMay was entirely silent on why he objects to this time extension. TimMay Moroned: #You lying sack of shit. I've made my objections very, very clear. Yeah, you said urbanites are mutants. Whatever that means in your mind. TimMay Moroned: #I need to find out

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread George
TimMay Moroned: #And what is wrong with simply closing the lines at the closing time. #Put a cop or other official at the end of the line and say: "You #arrived at 8:01. Polls are closed. Everyone ahead of you will be #allowed in to vote, but you are too late." Why, that's

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread George
TimMay Moroned: #Ah, yes, so we extend the hours in a liberal welfare mecca because #Latisha Shabombaweka wasn't properly registered at 10 IN THE MORNING. You are clearly a racist. You need cooking in a large pot. ;-)

Re: Al Gore is only 630 votes away from winning the election

2000-11-08 Thread George
Declan the Reporter wrote: #Al Gore is only 630 votes away from winning the election Now they'll have to wait until all the absentee ballots are counted. They had to be postedmarked by midnight. Approximately 10 days away. Surreal.

Patricia.Horotan@gs.com

2000-11-13 Thread George
Check out the one-time animated bunny at: http://www.energizer.com ---guy

Re: Beware the Rants of May

2000-11-13 Thread George
#---guy Oops, now Tim will kill me. Geigertronics wrote: #Pot, Kettle, Black A, I'm picking on bully TimMay. Cry me a river.

Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!

2000-11-10 Thread George
White Supremacist Tim "I'd like to see a race riot" May Moroned: #I sort of hope the hundreds of lawyers sent down to #Florida by the Gore Team succeed in throwing the #election to Gore. Yes, the closely recounted votes will turn to Gore. Gore will be president. White Supremacist

Mayhem 2000: Pro-Bush Rebels Seize Power in West, DC in Flames

2000-11-15 Thread George
Heh-heh-heh: don't miss http://www.theonion.com/ during this fun time. NBS News reverses earlier report of Gore's death Florida recount reveals Nader defeated Serbia deploys peacekeeping forces to the U.S. Bush executes 253 New Mexico democrats Strom Thurmond Begins

Florida absentee ballots

2000-11-16 Thread George
from the post office on Election Day, raising the possibility that someone is tampering with the absentee vote. In theory, absentee ballots from the armed forces would help Republican George W. Bush, who clings to a slender 300-vote margin. In 1996, Republican Bob Dole received most of those

Re: Beware the Rants of May

2000-11-13 Thread George
I_Have_No_Name_At_ALL@Ether wrote: #Am I the only one delighting in the irony of someone #using the name Orwell having no better writing skills... Ah, start out with an ad hominem attack. Such writing skills. I_Have_No_Name_At_ALL@Ether wrote: #I merely point out that those who

Re: Aces high

2000-11-16 Thread George
White Supremacist Tim "I'd like to see a race riot" May Moroned: #Even if meant in jest, as a comment on the situation, #it undermines the basic issue of law. Like, "Needs killing."

Carnivore All-Consuming

2000-11-17 Thread George
EPIC FOIA... http://www.latimes.com/wires/20001117/tCB00V0387.html WASHINGTON--The FBI's controversial e-mail surveillance tool, known as Carnivore, can retrieve all communications that go through an Internet service -far more than FBI officials have said it does -a recent test of its

Re: Florida Supreme Court freezes certification

2000-11-18 Thread George
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #Except that the legal motion was filed by the Reps, not the Dems, #originally. They brought it on them-damn-selves. Idiots. No one asked the Florida Supreme Court to freeze the certification. My current opinion is that they should take the .2% error rate

Duking it out with the FBI, or, Saving the White Race

2000-11-20 Thread George
[very slightly snipped] http://foxnews.com/national/112000/duke.sml # #David Duke Phones Home, Learns of FBI Raid # #Monday, November 20, 2000, By Brett Martel # # #NEW ORLEANS - White supremacist David Duke finally called home #from Russia to learn that federal

Two Wrongs Make a Right, or, Salt (yummy condiment) == Na (poison) + Cl (poison)

2000-11-21 Thread George
Generalized: a digest / digsig... #A Microsoft spokeswoman says that Ewel's announcement was #consistent with security features in Windows 2000. "This is part #of our overall commitment to security. ... Signed drivers and #trusted applications are features found today in

Drop the recounts

2000-11-18 Thread George
The recounts will take weeks? Fugeddaboutit. Go for a revote request using the 0.2% error rate machines. Get the revote: Gore wins by thousands. Don't get it: Gore viable next election cycle, Bush out. It took 36 re-votes to elect Thomas Jefferson. [Democratic spin]

And the latest Florida Cheney killer is...

2000-11-22 Thread George
A Republican controlled district admits to bringing in two republican operatives and marking up (apparently 100% illegal, chargeable as a crime) ballots and sending them overseas...absentee ballots. They might all get thrown out. 15,000 of them. Republican.

Is this Reno/wiretap stat true?

2000-11-19 Thread George
Found in Usenet: #I don't know if Reno is a traitor, but consider this: #Between 1992 and 1997, there were approximately 2,500 #national security wiretaps requested by the FBI. Only one #of these 2,500 requests was turned down: Wen Ho Lee's! And #this turndown took place

Some sort of steeerange tax revolt

2000-11-19 Thread George
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/business/19TAXX.html # #November 19, 2000 # #Defying the I.R.S., Anti-Tax Businesses Refuse to Withhold # #By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON # #LAKE SHASTA, Calif. - Al Thompson squeezed most of his #manufacturing company's 28 employees

The PING of Death

2000-11-29 Thread George
Mike Muuss, author of "ping" dies in car accident http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/14936.html How about a tombstone with a perpetual ping? Or would that be a grave attack?

The Freenet Project: Vapourware?

2000-12-31 Thread George
(via slashdot) "The Freenet Project: Vapourware?" by Ian Clarke, 30th Dec 2000 http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=vapourware

NZ Snoop Backlash

2001-01-07 Thread George
But first... Butt-ugly KGB watches: http://www.russia2all.com/watches/military/watch_military_army.htm Get yer KGB memorabilia before portals bans it. Wouldn't it be at least something to have a U.S. cabinet level position of Privacy Commissioner? NZ, Canada but not US. (via

SEC Investigation into VA Linux IPO

2001-01-08 Thread George
It's a "Front Page" article at wsj.com. There is free 30-day registration for access to the site.

Two items

2001-01-11 Thread George
(via Wired) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15982.html # #German police in Napster child porn probe By: Linda Harrison #in New York Posted: 10/01/2001 at 21:14 GMT # #German police have launched a probe into whether Napster is being #used to swap child porn on

Autodesk branches out

2001-01-24 Thread George
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB980214103197095292.htm # #January 23, 2001 # #Technology Briefs # #Autodesk to Market Location-Detection Software for Cellphones # #Autodesk Inc., a San Rafael, Calif., software company, created #a new division to market

Re: oppose nomination of John Ashcroft

2001-01-24 Thread George
Jim Burnes smoldered: #Reese wrote: # Reno burned little kids in their church, because of the FIREARMS held # or believed to be held somewhere on or around the compound. # # You might want to reappraise. # #I've appraised the Waco scenario more than most. You might

Re: FC: Supreme Court agrees to hear morphed kiddie porn case

2001-01-24 Thread George
I hope there is a separate sub-challenge on someone being caught with non-children-"child porno" being labeled a sex offender. Talk about thought crime...

Intra-state == Inter-state

2001-01-25 Thread George
I was searching for a story where a major auction house won (defended against) a copyright complaint that the image of what was being sold was copyrighted, and came across this. It was probably posted before, but here it is again. If anyone can locate the above story, please let me know. The old

Re: Web war rages over DVD-cracking site

2001-01-26 Thread George
Congrats to John on his current luck. Well, not the visit to WAy out there. Declan, nice photos. Now check these out: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0104/conaway.shtml Heh-heh-heh.

Now if Gilmore would provide an open phone relay...

2001-03-16 Thread George
UniBlab ran up a $500 LD bill using my calling card. The little darling. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/172 # #Spam war gags Gilmore # #Verio cuts off EFF co-founder John Gilmore over open mail server. #By Kevin Poulsen March 15, 2001 5:19 PM PT # #

John Walsh broadcasts Most Wanted sans underwear! (horrors!)

2001-04-13 Thread George
Something I've never bought before - "Globe" 4/17/2001 - has compromising photos of John Walsh and another babe. "Caught! America's most perverted host" He's been married 29 years, but apparently his new fame (Wanted) has led him to keep mistresses and take pictures of them when he gets

Misc p2p article

2001-04-16 Thread George
Also, today's NYT has an article about national security needs for more language experts. http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB987356381635082061.htm # #April 16, 2001 # #Asian Technology # #Two New Peer-to-Peer Programs Aim High, but Still Have Glitches # #

FireBreathing Reno sighted

2001-05-02 Thread George
FoxNewChannel's Hannity Colmes will have Janet Reno on tonight. (Repeated throughout the night)

Updating Our Database

2001-01-16 Thread Pamela George VP Corporate Marketing Sybase
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