From my weekly Wired column...
-Declan
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44939,00.html
Thuggish cops: Police in Key West, Florida, arrested a newspaper editor
last week for printing an article that criticized an internal police
investigation.
The editor of Key West The Newspaper,
I was wondering how much Slashdot-spam traffic Choate adds
to the list, so I did the below computation.
%fgrep 'From:' cypherpunks|wc -l
2210
%fgrep 'From:' cypherpunks | fgrep Choate|wc -l
366
Now, this is my active cypherpunks inbox and I suspect I delete
a lot of Choatisms from it,
askd during oral arguments were very much pro-MPAA.
It's true that they could be playing devil's advocate, but the queries
seemed to be genuine conviction, not intellectual gamesmanship.
-Declan
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:14:53PM +0200, Lars Gaarden wrote:
Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Thu, Jun 21
[At least they've got some DNA they can test... -Declan]
Interpol hit by parcel of rotten meat and excrement
LYON, France, June 26 (Reuters) - A suspect parcel delivered to Interpol
headquarters that prompted a three-hour evacuation of the building contained
nothing more lethal than rotten
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MCVEIGH'S DEATH SPURS OUTCRY AGAINST POETRY
By Mad Cow Culture ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:53:38AM -0700, David Honig wrote:
At 07:30 PM 6/20/01 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
The DMCA, according to the court, clearly prevents the use of DeCSS
and css-auth, even in the case that it has a legitimate use, because
it circumvents the access control measures
to be untrue? From my perspective
disparaging politicians is like shooting fish in a barrel. Usually all
that is needed is to truthfully compare their campaign speeches to their
actual voting or other practices.
At 9:48 PM -0400 6/14/01, Declan McCullagh wrote:
* And what about the legal risk
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:00:21PM -, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
It is a botched attempt to describe the cut and choose mechanism.
Right, it was an attempt to describe cut and choose in three
sentences or so. It's a news article, not a technical paper. Deal.
The article also contains a
Yeah, appears to be unpatented. Right. Whatever.
You can take that anonymous claim to the bank.
-Declan
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:00:04PM -, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
Again, you misled the public by implying that all potential approaches to
ecash were patented. In fact, Wagner's
Right. It's a cost-benefit analysis.
Bob may pick up some of Alice's bad blocks, and there's a cost to that.
But if the benefit of spam reduction outweighs the possibly-minimal
cost, well, Bob's got a good thing going and he's quite happy to continue
with that practice.
-Declan
On Tue, Jun
:37 AM 6/13/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
ORBS/MAPS/etc. participate by connecting to and reviewing sites,
much like I go out to and watch movies to review.
Not always. If you refused to have your site reviewed, then they would
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:10:34AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
ORBS/MAPS/etc. participate by connecting to and reviewing sites,
much like I go out to and watch movies to review.
Not always. If you refused to have your site reviewed
The analogy's not perfect, but analogies never are. If you don't
like what spam critics are doing, move to a different ISP.
-Declan
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:07:16AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
Yes, if you participate in an open forum like the
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010609/ts/bush_oil_ethanol_4.html
Environmentalists said the administration was preventing California from
deciding for itself how best to protect the public health and clean air and
drinking water supplies.
, and RBL could overreact and restrict some
folks who are undeserving in the interim.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:28:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
ORBS is a reputation-publishing tool.
Total Bullshit.
None of my domains have *ever* had
Yes, there's that Scalia, the well-known pinko commie.
-Declan
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:44:27PM -0700, atek3 wrote:
what a frigging nightmare, when the only people standing in the way of a
wholesale rape of our civil liberties are leftists.
atek3
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From:
Any chance of adding uns-b-c-i-e in the Subject: or body to majordomo's
verboten-words list?
-Declan
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:19:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
please uns--e me
PRZ told me last week he was working on (and I put this in my Wired article)
PGPfone in Java. You may want to compare notes.
-Declan
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:37:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apropos, I'm looking for full-duplex no-hassle crypto
voice programs (preferably, for *nix)
I have never programmed in VB, though I have written machine code.
Nowadays I do my work in Perl with some C and am quite happy.
That said, I suspect you can craft some useful programs in VB, and if it
speeds development time without greatly influencing running time, why not
do it? I'm too
http://www.madcowculture.com/madcow-00073.html
Not surprisingly, the mad cow scare has gone underground and spawned a fan
club that professes to live on the edge. Club members usually wear black,
go to all-night clubs in Greenwich Village, and demonstrate courage by
doing a line of cocaine.
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:31:23PM -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
more power to you. But the Cypherpunks list is about getting things done
more than it's about cutesy vanity.
Really? It always struck me as that this list was a lot more about
vanity than getting things done. :)
-Declan
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Subject: Re: Starium (was Re: article: german secure phone)
To: Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 00:00:03
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Subject: FC: Zenon Panoussis's letter to Kirkland: I invite you to sue me
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 23:55:03 -0400
X-URL: http
Yes, no, and it depends.
Even ardent libertarians will probably agree with the idea of some kind
of search warrants in some situations, so in those cases you don't have the
right to hide stuff (though you can try).
But those are exceptional conditions, or at least should be.
This is not a
Privacy is many things, and Jim is pretty much on the wrong track on
all of them. I haven't seen such babble since undergraduate crit-lit
classes.
Privacy means different things to different people, societies, cultures.
It is analytically different when we're talking about privacy from police
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:04:14 -0400
X-URL: Politech is at http://www.politechbot.com
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:46:55PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
An equally interesting question is whether it is illegal for a consumer to
copy already ripped DV material a friend may have. Since the person doing
the copying did not circumvent the copy protection, not perhaps their
friend,
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:36:28AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it's illegal to circumvent a copy protection scheme,
is it still illegal to do so if making a personal copy
is legal?
Yes, says the MPAA, the Clinton and Bush administrations, and
at least one federal judge. That came up in
You have a valid concern. It strikes me that there are two points
worth considering:
* How likely is it that someone will stumble across this information?
I was there for every day of the Bell trial (except the first afternoon,
when I was sequestered and prevented from covering the trial -- a
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:17:21AM +, David E. Smith wrote:
Having been on the business end of a couple of subpoenas, I believe I know
what was being referred to. If the Federales want me to go to, oh, let's
just say Tacoma, they can give me a cab to the airport and tickets and a
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:49:32 -0400
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:
At 10:09 AM 5/23/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
You will be reimbursed and paid $20 or thereabouts per day for your
witness fee.
Are you compensated for expenses (e.g., kennelling your dog)
incurred as a result of your absence?
Are there any provisions in the law to counter
So what's this Dept of HEW, and where's a real cite?
-Declan
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:53:12AM -0700, David Honig wrote:
[1] From http://www.mind-trek.com/practicl/tl17b.htm
However, one of the laws provision is not so well known or publicized.
According to the department of Health
The justicefiles.org guy has long complained (at last when I interviewed
his attorney) about hacker attacks, some allegedly from official
computers.
Here's some background on the latest problems:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=kirkland
-Declan
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at
, Declan McCullagh wrote:
You can see news coverage of Kirkland's legal threats here:
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165907.html
The Politech article that is in danger of being taken down if
Kirkland wins an injunction:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02008.html
All the documents are online here
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 06:09:24PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
[ Declan: I give you permission to print this in one of your articles,
you should also mention my Constitutional Amendment Project ]
Thank you, I guess. I normally would dismiss this with a snide remark
about fair use,
Close, but not quite right. Some publications, especially political pubs,
are not profitable and subsidized by wealthy investors.
-Declan
At 09:59 PM 5/16/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
But even if I have permission, it also has to be newsworthy
Yeah, pretty goddamn amazing. The WashPost had coverage of this last week.
-Declan
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:41:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,24717,00.html
#
#Ex-Doobie Brother is Missile Defense Ace
#
#Monday, May 14, 2001
#
#
May 8, 2001
Senate Appropriations Committee
Terrorism
Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Subcommittee hearing to examine
United States Federal Government capabilities with respect to terrorism.
Witnesses: Defense Department witness, TBA; John Gordon, administrator,
National Nuclear
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:48:04PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
Note that these devices are 100% passive, which would avoid FCC
problems (though not neccesarily LEA ones).
See also:
http://www.interdiscountmall.com/interdiscountmall/phazradjam.html
-Declan
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:59:29PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
For automated photolasers, mount a slave flash beside your plate.
When the camera goes off, its flash will trigger yours, again dazzling
the camera.
Provided the camera isn't very fast. The responce time of your system and
the
8. Congress calls for higher federal pay raise By Brian Friel
Federal workers should get a 4.6 percent average pay raise next year rather
than President Bush's proposed 3.6 percent raise, lawmakers said late
Thursday night. House and Senate negotiators released a fiscal 2002 budget
resolution
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:21:45 -0400
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I think this may be one idea for which you don't want credit.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:39:31AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Gee, I wonder if he'll give me credit for working on this the last 8
years...
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43216,00.html
--
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:36:00PM -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
It's unfortunate that the majority of the Amicus briefs filed in this case
seem to be from conservative groups and quasi-governmental puppet
organizations.
It gets worse. One of the conservative groups reportedly filed on
behalf
Or if he would have set up irswatch.com and called himself an
investigative reporter.
-Declan
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:03:42PM +, Steve Thompson wrote:
Quoting John Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Jim scribbled "SHAM" on a notepad and displayed it
to the courtroom.
Jim would be in a
At 05:44 PM 4/21/01 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
Gakkk.. That's ~27 megabits/second, over half a T3.
I remember when I could *read* all of Usenet,
I remember (circa 1988) when I could read about 30 newsgroups. I'm afraid
you predate me by a few years. :)
Another sysadmin (in town for the NORML
"formerly available only to high level government agencies"
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:58:59 -0400
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:51:06AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
But the opposite will also get you in trouble -
if you allow certain plants to grow on your property,
numerous federal agencies will _also_ be very, very angry :-)
And if you try to argue that *you're* not growing the plants,
the
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Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:07:52 -0400
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http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,43158,00.html
Intelligenesis Faces Dim Future
By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
2:00 a.m. Apr. 19, 2001 PDT
A pioneering New York company that once hoped to develop the first
artificial intelligence is preparing to declare
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:09:38PM -0700, David Honig wrote:
Untraceables without persistance are useful mostly for email.
Persistent untraceable, that's part of the Realization.
Is that part of the Singularity? :)
-Declan
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:08:57AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Yep, let's bitch about how stupid I am and how I don't get it. And at the
same time hope nobody notices you're doing nothing but waving your hands.
Your forte is clearly the ad hominim.
Hardly. But let's assume arguendo that you
Maybe that's what you meant to have said. But you don't seem to have a clue
about your ability to force, say, news organizations to bend to your
view of what's "commercial use" of a cypherpunks posting.
We tend to view it sas "fair use."
-Declan
Who has a job in the 'press'
On Mon, Apr 16,
That was a particularly eloquent statement.
-Declan
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 06:01:23AM -, Kenneth Sigafoose wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:23:15AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
if it's not a sports team it's emotional coercion via a SO. If it's not
that then it's self-imposed psychological 'benchmarks' we all pick up and
try to measure ourselves against. If it's not one thing, it's another.
This badly
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:45:03PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Yes, you did. You specificaly said that posts through the CDR were
implicitly usable for commercial use (ie your using them in a article)
without permission or other contact to the author. You also compared it to
No, I said there was
This Choatian post is even more useless than the normal one-liner.
In the time it took (apparently) the ssz node to redistribute the
message, the article has been replaced with one about sex attacks in
London. (that may be more interesting, but that's not the point.)
The moral of this story is
Installed under court order, according to testimony.
-Declan
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 10:03:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Honig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#
#If you think you *are* being followed in a car, I'd suggest
#you read Tomlinson's _The Big Breach_ (available
I was thinking of taking some photos, acting the photojournalist
instead of the writingjournalist, but they never used the public
entrance.
-Declan
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:19:15PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, if anyone has pictures of The Gordon, please email
them to me. I'll
Right. There was some discussion of "military uses this device"
during direct exam, but the prosecutor was tech-clueless and so was the
witness, beyond standard drudge insert-device-here skills, so I wouldn't
rely on them. See my Wired article, easily ref'd at cluebot.com, for
exact quotes.
My
ey
receive from him, if he sees his posts printed in full in the next issue
of WIRED, he could sue.
Declan McCullagh wrote:
The problem with Choate's argument is that (besides that it's silly),
he gives implied consent to redistribute by posting here. Also, as he claims
to kn
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:25:33PM -0400, brainteaser wrote:
Thats one thing I don't get about what (many) people post on this list.
There is a lot of shit about the government did this and federal agents
are doing that, but very little about what corporations do. Partly this
is probably
for itself.
-Declan
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:56:37PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Okay, Jim, let's test your tortured interpretation of the law.
I'll take one of your posts that's 201 lines long and post it on my
website, properly attributed
-- Daniel
- Original Message -----
From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Daniel J. Boone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: Pleading the 5th
Cute, but inaccurate. I never have questioned the ability of list
own
Old motto: "Cypherpunks write code"
New motto: "Cypherpunks lobby in state capitols, craft
'appropriate' policy responses, and identify
'key players' for 'maximum bang for the buck'"
Old cypherpunk: Hacker, programmer, coder, sysadmin, engineer
New cypherpunk: IRS
Day in Court
by Declan McCullagh
Bell's lawyer, Robert Leen, twice asked U.S. District Judge Jack
Tanner to halt the proceedings because his client had a "major mental
disorder."
Gosh, don't you just love how federal public defenders "help" their
clients, b
bounced. Did you enjoy it?
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Old motto: "Cypherpunks write code"
New motto: "Cypherpunks lobby in state capitols, craft
'appropriate' policy responses, and identify
'key players' for 'maximum bang for the buc
Tim's point is on-target. Read up on freedom to contract.
See also examples like Yahoo-Geocities a few years back, claiming
IP rights in posts to its site (then abandoned, but that was due to
PR outcry, not to lack of enforceable contract).
-Declan
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:29:03AM -0800,
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Subject: Judge in Jim Bell trial says media may not quote public documents
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 12:11:33 -0400
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42895,00.html
ATF Admits Tracking Jim Bell
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
10:20 a.m. Apr. 6, 2001 PDT
TACOMA, Washington -- The government revealed Thursday that it
implanted a satellite-tracking device in a suspect's
She wasn't a lawyer; your PR clone suspicion is correct.
She was not a technologist. Her function was only to testify that
an IP address matched an account.
Bell's lawyer on cross-examination never raised the point that a message
posted to cpunx goes through multiple servers (including the
I'm still getting "disk full" bounces. --Declan
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:36:28AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Is it back?
To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is
(x+1)-ecrable.
See:
http://www.cluebot.com/search.pl?topic=ap-politics
You would have a valid point if the Beasty Boys were in the habit of
sending MP3s of their latest hits to cypherpunks.
-Declan
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:33:37AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Private property != intellecutal property. If anything
HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE COMMITTEE Computer Security Oversight and
Investigations Subcommittee hearing on "Protecting America's Critical
Infrastructure: How Secure are Government Computer Systems?" Witnesses: Ron
Dick, director, FBIs' National Infrastructure Protection Center; Sallie
than
putting on a defense, and is (a bad move) trying to be his own lawyer.
He apparently believes he will win; he is almost certainly mistaken.
-Declan
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:59:28AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:23:33 -0400, Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
I understand that Tanner asked them (I was out of the room at the time)
about whether they heard of FIJA. Nope.
-Declan
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:50:03PM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Jim Burnes wrote:
Were it not for a jury, Tanner could simply pronounce him
The problem with Choate's argument is that (besides that it's silly),
he gives implied consent to redistribute by posting here. Also, as he claims
to know, CDR is by nature distributed, and each node can set its own
policy. Dont' like it? Don't participate.
-Declan
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at
Logically, it is only your speech if you can stop "saying" it
at any time. I doubt he could stop his execution by asking nicely.
-Declan
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:12:52PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Isn't this McVeigh's 'speech' and 'press', does he want it broadcast? If so
then the state
2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
The problem with Choate's argument is that (besides that it's silly),
he gives implied consent to redistribute by posting here. Also, as he claims
to know, CDR is by nature distributed, and each node can set its own
policy. Dont' like it? Don't participate
Bah. I would rather argue that the execution is the government's
free speech at work, and it should have the right to say it in
whatever way it wants. :)
-Declan
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:45:43PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Logically, it is only
Private property != intellecutal property. If anything, my "private
property" claim is stronger than your IP one, since the bits are on MY
server. :)
-Declan
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:41:47PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Amusing. So
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:07:02AM -0400, John Young wrote:
At one of the rump sessions Robb London said he was
going to demand affidavits of everyone about what was
being discussed. He was ignored except by a woman who
The rest I can't vouch for, but this is true. London likes
to make
Jim Bell wanted to call Ryan Lund, but the judge said no and denied
the subpoena. Bell accuses Lund of being (as a fellow prisoner)
a government informant and long-arm.
-Declan
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:34:53PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Note the use of the word 'compulsory' with respect to
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:50:58 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: I have invited you to join the "A Dog Owner's Network" SmartGroup
Hi,
I would like to invite you to check out our Newsletter. Legislative
alert, requesting the public to write letters
[originally sent to politech]
U.S. District Judge Jack Tanner did not grant our motion to quash the
subpoena, so I took the stand this afternoon.
When I did, I confirmed that I was the author of two Wired News articles
and I said I believed those articles were accurate.
When the prosecution
One prospective juror (who did not make it on the 12+1 person jury)
said he had heard of cypherpunks.
-Declan
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:31:52PM -0800, Blank Frank wrote:
At 05:26 PM 4/3/01 -0400, John Young wrote:
Tacoma 2PM
A party said the first question asked of prospective
jurors
It's important for cypherpunks to understand why Seth Finkelstein has
(apparently) recently subscribed to the list. Seth is essentially an
anti-cypherpunk, someone who violently disagrees with free-market points of
view and has spent (a conservative estimate) hundreds of hours arguing
against
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:03:22PM -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
Declan and Jim both seemed to have missed the point about Cypherpunks. I've
attended physical meetings, off and on, since meeting #2 or #3 in the Bay
Area.
It's a fair point, and I don't think I missed it. In any case,
I don't
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Subject: FC: Day #1: U.S. v. Jim Bell report from federal court in Tacoma
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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:12:18 -0400
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got fired and started a
new site, so what few viewers they had got disgusted and left. It used to
be funny without stelaing from others.
At 12:00 AM 4/2/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
I note the mainstream media is picking up on this story:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18028.html
In a segment airing on CBS' 60 Minutes II (www.cbsnews.com)
Tuesday night, April 3rd, 2001, various experts will be interviewed
regarding the growing number of business owners who have
stopped withholding federal taxes from their workers' paychecks
because they have discovered that there
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--Time traveler's guide to seasonal celebrations.
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
I note the mainstream media is picking up on this story:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18028.html
-Declan
bothering me for a while:
Why in the world does anyone on this list trust Declan McCullagh?
Your argument doesn't do much for me, Seth. The problem is,
what you say of Declan could be true of ANYONE you talk to,
journalist or not, and ANYONE on mailing lists or other forums
where you send
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:36:48PM -0400, Seth Finkelstein wrote:
My question does not involve journalistic privilege _per se_.
It is addressed to the reputational implications of testifying as a
witness for the prosecution in criminal trials (past, present, and future).
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