Re: nettime PlayFair Sarovar

2004-04-12 Thread proclus

The GNU-Darwin Distribution is taking a stand against what Apple has
done, and we have blackened our website so that people will take notice.

http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

MacNN is also running a story about it, and it is interesting that
Apple has sometimes used the DMCA to threaten them as well.

http://www.macnn.com/news/24175

There are some discussion threads about it, although most messages are
still in the queue and not yet visible.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=6042

Here is a link to the original post.

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=367147

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On 12 Apr, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
 
 
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 To: nettime [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 From: kevin lahoda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: nettime PlayFair   Sarovar
 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:51:11 -0400
 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-To: kevin lahoda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 Sarovar.org is India's first portal to host projects under Free/Open
 source licenses. It is located in Trivandrum, India and hosted at Asianet
 data center. Sarovar.org is customised, installed and maintained by
 Linuxense as part of their community services and sponsored by River
 Valley Technologies.
 
  From Sarovar's  http://sarovar.org/  Latest News: After a short
 vacation thanks to a Cease and Desist letter from Apple, we're back
 online. Many thanks to Sarovar for hosting us..  -PlayFair 
 
 Sarovar now hosts The PlayFair project  http://playfair.sarovar.org/ 
 which SourceForge has declined in order to avoid tangling with Apple's
 decision to go DMCA on their ass 
 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/09/1554203 . Like something from
 a Gibson novel, I wouldn't doubt if Sarovar rises to meet more than
 another of these occasions in the near future.
 
 And so, we have more contentious open source code hosted outside of the US
 in order to circumvent unfavorable legal processes.
 
 Offtshoring in itself is not all that new (another example: 
 http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/ ). Here is how this one gets
 interesting:  A big guy - Apple, goes a little sour, another (kind of) big
 guy - SourceForge, takes the easy route, and then an offshore repository
 stands in.
 
 With all of this, one thing that should not be ignored is that SourceForge
 should be shamed for not holding itself stronger. In a way SourceForge's
 decline of PlayFair and non-usage of the Safe Harbor Provision Act 
 http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/  is an admit of defeat and a
 failure to stand up for one's (community's) rights.
 
 What comes out of this?
 
 Well, maybe Apple wins because they avoid a chance of being tarnished.
 Imagine what consumer level acknowledgment of the reality of Apple
 marketing a clean yet gritty 'Garage Band' motif (with all that punk rock
 implies) while at the same time sleeping with DRM, recently RIAA, and now
 DMCA, could entail... One can easily see that Apple is dancing itself into
 a bit of a gamble. But then again, what does an Ipod zombie care about
 these acronyms anyway?
 
 What does SourceForge get? Not much. This only makes it easier for them to
 weasle out of the next situation that comes up. Not to mention they also
 missed a good chance to join PlayFair in telling Apple what's what.
 
 k
 
 http://sarovar.org/ http://sarovar.org/projects/playfair/
 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/09/1554203
 http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/
 http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/
 
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/09/playfair_dmca_takedown/
 
 
 
 
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Re: nettime PlayFair Sarovar

2004-04-12 Thread proclus
On 12 Apr, To: R. A. Hettinga wrote:
 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=6042 

Ahh, that link just dropped ;-}.  Here is another.

http://www.advogato.org/article/764.html

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Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-22 Thread proclus
On 21 Dec, Michael Kalus wrote:
  I don't know who you are referring too, but that comment is amusing, 
  because it is exactly the kind of lambaste broadside that one hears on 
  Faux news channel all the time.  Anyway, I say that Saddam has human 
  rights, just like everyone else, which includes due process, right to 
  counsel, and to face your accusers in an open court that has  
  legitimate 
  authority to find you innocent or guilty.  The US is clearly and 
  wrongly doing the opposite of this, and if this makes me pro-Saddam, 
  then I will wear the label proudly. 
  
  How can we offer him procedural guarantees enjoyed by U.S. residents 
  when we won't be the ones conducting procedure at his trial?  He's  
  going 
  to be tried in the ICC or by Iraqis in Iraqi courts.  We have no good 
  evidence that he's committed crimes against Americans, and unless we 
  find some, I don't think that anyone would want him anywhere near a 
  Federal courtroom. 
  
  
 He won't be put in front of the ICC as the US never signed on to it. So  
 this one is out. 
  
 That leaves either an American Tribunal or an Iraqi one. In either case  
 they should adhere to US procedures as they are based on them. 

Yes, but I think Justin is mistaking my meaning.  In order for the
trial to be fair and valid, it must adhere to certain standards, some
of which I enumerated.  They are not necessarily US procedures, per se.
Based on these discussions, I think it is clear that the war crimes
tribunal should be composed of elected Iraqi judges.   This would have
the advantage of adding democratic legitimacy to the process so that the
result would be widely accepted, something terribly lacking in any
proceeding under US auspices.  Moreover, this solution addresses US
exceptions to the international courts as well, since the case would be
heard in US-occupied Iraq.

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Re: Release Saddam now

2003-12-20 Thread proclus
On 19 Dec, James A. Donald wrote:
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 On 19 Dec 2003 at 15:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 If there is no one with legitimate jurisdiction to try 
 Saddam, then he should be released.
 
 You are making De Sade's argument against natural law, to which 
 his prosecutors rightly made the riposte, that if no one had 
 the right to condemn him for torturing a maid, then no one had 
 the right to condemn them for imprisoning De Sade. 

Interesting, did De Sade concur?  ;-}

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Release Saddam now

2003-12-19 Thread proclus
Saddam is being wrongly held by illegal invaders and occupiers.  He
should be immediately released or turned over to legitimate
authorities, such as the international courts.  Advocate for the
release of Saddam Hussein, and the withdrawal of the USurpers.  Pass the
word.

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Re: Release Saddam now

2003-12-19 Thread proclus
On 19 Dec, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
 And here I thought the fuckwits couldn't get any dumber.

Ahh yes, and such a clever riposts as well.

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Re: Release Saddam now

2003-12-19 Thread proclus
On 19 Dec, James A. Donald wrote:
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 On 19 Dec 2003 at 13:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Saddam is being wrongly held by illegal invaders and 
 occupiers.  He should be immediately released or turned over 
 to legitimate authorities, such as the international courts.
 
 To judge by its current woeful performance in the Serbian war
 crimes trials, the Hague would acquit Saddam and convict
 Carter. 

If there is no one with legitimate jurisdiction to try Saddam, then he
should be released.

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Re: President of Flies

2003-12-19 Thread proclus
On 19 Dec, Nomen Nescio wrote:
 US is currently run by thugs supported by the cheering consumer crowds that have 
 been bred and conditioned to be infantile.

Your analysis hangs on this assertion.  You may be underestimating the
revulsion of the US electorate towards the actions of the current
administration.

Here is a related question: How do you think infantile US citizens
would respond, if we were wrongly invaded by an outside power spilling
blood on American soil?   Iraq happened exactly because Bush is
exploiting the outrage of US citizens over the 9/11 attack.  

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Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread proclus
On 19 Dec, James A. Donald wrote:
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 Saddam will be judged by his victims, who have jurisdiction
 enough for me.  

It is tempting to say that the victims have some kind of natural right
to see justice done against this tyrant.  The problem is that the there
is no one in Iraq with legitimate authority to convene such a court,
least of all the US or their puppet regime.  In my opinion, Saddam
should be released, or shipped out to an international court with
recognized authority.

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Re: Release Saddam now

2003-12-19 Thread proclus
On 19 Dec, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
 But Saddam's regime itself stemmed from illegal takeover of a previous  
 regime -- doesn't that make all of his regime illegitimate and his  
 authority void? 

No, by this argument nearly all the regimes of the world
would be illegitimate. Saddam ruled a terrible regime, but he
also overthrew a terrible regime.  Anyway, Saddam enjoyed the authority
of democratic acquiescence, which is the accepted standard.  Even if
Saddam's regime were illegitimate, which it was not, the aggresive acts
of the US were still illegal.  No authority can be derived from an
aggressive and illegal invasion.

  By extension, the US puppet government in Iraq also has no 
  plausible claim to authority. 
  
 Why not? 

By definition, a puppet government rules by the leave of the military
power, the US, which has no claim in this case to any legitimacy in
Iraq. Thus, the puppet government can have no claim to legitimacy
either.  

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Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread proclus
On 19 Dec, James A. Donald wrote:
 
 Well if there is no legitimate authority, then state of nature
 applies. Give him the justice that Mussolini and Ceasescu got.
 Hang him by his feet from a lamp post in central Baghdad for
 his victims to use as pinata

This would be an argument that the victims have a natural right to
administer judgment against Saddam, which might be a valid point.  In
order to rightly exercise that perogative, the people of Iraq will be
required to elect judges, or have them appointed by their elected
representative.  This would be a legitimate court in Iraq, but US
military justice is illegitimate in Iraq, because of the illegal
aggression.

 But I think we can find a legitimate authority somewhat better
 than that.  And if we cannot, the mob has more legitimacy than
 the Hague.

I'm afraid that due to the imperious actions of the Bush
administration, you may be right about this.  Moreover, the US is in a
bind, because the US rulers were complicit in Saddam's only credible war
crimes.  For this reason they will never turn him over to the
international courts, where this truth would be spoken loudly and
repeatedly.  

It appears to me that elected judges is the way to go.  Thank you for
this stimulating discussion.

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Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread proclus

I would like to throw in with the OTO gunners here.  If you are
interested in an expanded and predictive analysis, check here.

US aggression leads predictably to bad results: Take action to stop the war now
http://proclus.tripod.com/radical/wartext4.html

I wrote it in April, while US bombs were turning Baghdad into a second
9/11.

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On 17 Dec, Eric Cordian wrote:
  But when, however, people fly a plainload of passengers into 
  two tall buildings and murder thousands, those dreadful 
  Americans had it coming, were justly smacked like a naughty 
  child, and have no right to get indignant.  
  
 The two events are completely unrelated, except for the fact that 9/11 
 gave the US the additional hubris it needed to launch an unprovoked war of 
 agression against another sovereign nation, in violation of international 
 law and the wishes of the world community. 
  
 Saddam's capture is the poisoned fruit of an illegal occupation, which is 
 itself the poisoned fruit of an illegal invasion, whose clear purpose, 
 despite the lies about Saddam's ready to launch nuclear weapons, was to 
 control Iraq's oil, and eliminate support for the oppressed Palestinians. 
  
 Bush knew that as long as he managed to attack Iraq, using any pretense, 
 he would never be forced to leave once the excuses were revealed as lies, 
 because if there's two things America is structurally incapable of doing, 
 it's accepting blame and apologizing. 
  
 Every American soldier in Iraq right now is a war criminal.  Every dead 
 Iraqi is a murder victim. 
  
 As one writer so aptly put it... 
  
 For months we have wanted to get our hands on the warmonger who 
 terrorized the world with weapons of mass destruction. But, as we couldn't 
 get George Bush, we had to make do with Saddam Hussein. 

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RE: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread proclus
On 18 Dec, Trei, Peter wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
I would like to throw in with the OTO gunners here. [...]
 
 OTO
 Ordo Templi Orientalis?
 
 You don't mean *that*, do you? 

Why not?

 I suspect I'm suffering from acronym overloading. 

I was simply agreeing with the post of Eric Cordian, and hopefully
adding support to the argument, while alluding to his interesting sig.

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Re: cpunk-like meeting report

2003-12-14 Thread proclus
On 14 Dec, Tim May wrote:
 No, we don't need a cpunx-news list. This is what Google and the 
 ability to see hundreds of various lists and sites is for.
 
 News lists tend strongly to be just dumping grounds for crap from 
 other lists.

Yea, and I'll admit that I'm a junky, which is why I made the following
pages...

http://www.gnu-darwin.org/update.html
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/applelists.html

More...   info.,   Must have  ...  more...

 Otherwise, if anyone could recommend additional good sources for
 cypherpunk-related news, I'd be very grateful, because I don't feel
 right about cross-posting news items to cypherpunks list.  I'm already
 subscribed to the Cryptome rdf channel, Politech, and GNU-Darwin of
 course.  I don't think I'm interesting enough for Interesting
 People ;-}.
 
 I failed the entrance exam for Interesting People, which is fine, for 
 obvious reasons.

ROFL!

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Re: cpunk-like meeting report

2003-12-14 Thread proclus
Hi, I've been admiring your and Tim's contributions, and I was wondering if
either of you were planning to subscribe to the (new) news list.

http://lists.cryptnet.net/mailman/listinfo/cpunx-news

Be sure and check the archive before posting.  It is still small.

Otherwise, if anyone could recommend additional good sources for
cypherpunk-related news, I'd be very grateful, because I don't feel
right about cross-posting news items to cypherpunks list.  I'm already
subscribed to the Cryptome rdf channel, Politech, and GNU-Darwin of
course.  I don't think I'm interesting enough for Interesting
People ;-}.  Please feel free to write back to me on- or off-list
for whatever reason you like.

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On 14 Dec, Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
 
 I went to a meeting of the Irvine Underground (irvineunderground.org)
 which reminded me of late-90s SF CP meatings.  Although the overall
 tech level was probably lower and social implications weren't a big
 topic.
 Also, at this meeting, there were far more cameras or videocams than
 were present (at least overtly :-) at the few CP meats I attended.
 However,
 nyms were used more than they were (overtly :-) at CP meatings; this may
 
 have been due to a introduce yourself poll.  The IU
 group seems to be a bit more social, going to movies for instance, than
 the
 topic-only CPs were.  The meeting was held in a room at an IHOP (pancake
 restaurant
 for furriners)
 
 The exploit mentioned in
 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-12-11-microsoft2_x.htm
 was demonstrated, we were debriefed on the recent LA 802.11b War Flying
 mission
 (and the EMI resistance of 1960's era single-engine airplane instruments
 :-).
 Toorcon organizers were present.  About 30+ people
 were there, with what appeared to me to be a bimodal distribution of
 skills,
 some advanced, some admitted unix newbies, etc.  There was even
 recreational
 lock picking.  A WiFi LAN, net connectivity through someone's cell phone
 eventually.
 A video projector.
 
 I didn't notice persons with exceptional Euler numbers,
 though black was definately the color of choice for garments.  Ages
 appeared
 well distributed from undergrad to hoary.  One gent noticed a certain
 TLA on my
 cypherpunks T-shirt and admitted that he had once worked in Ft Meade,
 though
 he wouldn't say on what :-)
 

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Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

2003-12-08 Thread proclus
I'm still quite new to this list, so if you find this interesting,
please take it as from a newbie ;-}.

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Tim May wrote:
  Read the archives and note the drop-off in certain kinds of 
  political discussion. Even some of the former nodes have vanished; my 
  hunch is that many of those subscribed to the vanished nodes never 
  bothered to find another node. (I have no idea how many subscribers the 
  list has. The nodes I know of don't allow listing the subscribers. 

I'd volunteer GNU-Darwin.org as a new node, but we are having issues
with SMTP, dynablocker, spews list, etc.  (BTW, if anyone can recommend
a reliable and inexpensive closed relay service, that would be a big
help.)  

Anyway, is there a FAQ, HOWTO, volunteer person, where I can learn how
to set up a new Cpunks node?  I'd love to do this, if it would help, and
I'm sure that most of our users would also love the idea of GNU-Darwin
assisting the Cypherpunks list, which seems quiet apt.  

I frequently post to other forums crypto-related items, which could
include a link to the Cypherpunks list.

  bothered to find another node. (I have no idea how many subscribers the  
  list has. The nodes I know of don't allow listing the subscribers.  
  
On  7 Dec, J.A. Terranson wrote:
 None of mine will allow it either, with the reason being the protection of 
 the list contributors.

A partial solution would be to list the number of subscribers in the
list info, which reveals the info that is important to the community
without revealing the identities of the subscribers.

 CP has always been so much more than crypto.  The history here is political, 
 with crypto not always playing a part.  Even the non-crypto discussion is 
 almost completely lost. 

Here is an old post of mine.  I was worried about being off-topic, so I
did not continue with it.

http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00722.html

I'm a person who could post a ton of political stuff, which some might
find interesting, but some of it may not be related to crypto at all.  I
support crypto against a government which would like to be called
libertarian, which prats vacantly about democracy, free trade, and
globalism while undermining freedom and constitutional liberties.  This
is the situation which necessitates private crypto.  Conversely, many
here likely would not be happy if I called myself libertarian, because I
feel that corporations are titanic forces unfriendly to the vast
majority of human beings and unworthy of human liberty.

In short, I think that the libertarian position has been entirely
undermined, coopted , and lost conceptual utility.  The whole
libertarian debate has become distasteful, trollish, and
counter-productive, and it is driving people out of forums like this
one, not attracting them.  I would probably get labeled as a political
spammer or a troll myself.  I'm not sure this is what you want here.

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Vivendi to Destroy MP3.com archive

2003-11-22 Thread proclus

Vivendi et al. about to demonstrate how they value artists and their
work.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/11/21/14616/561

Somebody please tell me that this is a nightmare, and I am about to
wake up.

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

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