Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me

2003-06-04 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 11:48  AM, Bill Stewart wrote:

At 11:00 AM 06/03/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote:
That's all nice and good, but why should it be on cypherpunks?  
Where's
the relevance to this list?  Why is Ken, or his addres or helipad an
interest to the cypherpunks?  Why is PG&E's monopolistic's actions 
against
him relevant to the topics of this list?

What's next?  The Cypherpunk Equirer?
Well sure - because not all the Black Helicopters flying over Tim's 
house
have belonged to Feds/UN/etc. - one of them's probably been Ken's :-)
I've also found Tim's comments on Pynchon living nearby interesting.

IMHO, neither he, nor the Streisand creature have any relevance here -
there perhaps was some relevance in terms of that lawsuit the bitch
started, but, who gives a shit who your neighbors are?
I'd say issues of putting aerial photography on the internet and
how that changes the status of previously "secret" information
are pretty close to our core issues - they're not directly 
cryptography,
but neither are the "guns, lots of guns" discussions.
And neither are the 15th or 23rd essentially duplicative discussions of 
PGP or Mondex or SSL or crypto exports very interesting or useful.

I have no idea who pissed in Sunder's Wheaties, but he is of course 
free to skip any articles and concentrate on the ones that interest 
him. Volume on the list is now a fraction of what it once was...and yet 
still much repetitiousness dominates. Sunder could consider subscribing 
to a "Best of" list...wait, doesn't he _run_ one? Problem solved.

I was not the one who brought up the Streisand sut...that was a posting 
by Major Variola on Friday. I thought it was pretty interesting that 
the aerial photographer is a neighbor of mine. This is, after all, not 
the same as listing neighbors who have not been mentioned...this is 
more akin to there being some talked-about crime case here and having 
John Young or Declan say "That guy is my neighbor across the way." 
Interesting to know where people live, with even less techno/privacy 
relevance (such as hearing that Gary Condit lived near where Declan 
lives).

Added to the fact that I see his helicopters circling low over my 
property (which explains some of the close encounters of the chopper 
kind in recent years), and the privacy/Brinworld implications 
(mentioned by M. Variola), and the sheer coincidence that I had just 
returned from my first flying lesson, I felt the need to post.

Also, about 50-60 people were at the meeting/party at my house last 
September, so they have some (perhaps slight) awareness of which hills 
and nearby areas I'm mentioning.

Sunder should put me in his killfile for a while...I am doing that for 
his posts, for a while.

By the way, the Adelman situation also has a few other interesting 
tidbits. The company Adelman and his partner formed was called "TGV." 
Located in Santa Cruz, the names suggested _speed_, as in the French 
train of the same name. Lore has it that the real origin was "Two Guys 
and a Vax.

Adelman also founded Network Alchemy.

TGV was sold at the peak of the Internet boom to Cisco and Network 
Alchemy was sold to Nokia. Adelman cleared at least a few hundred 
million dollars.

--Tim May
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a 
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also 
into you." -- Nietzsche



Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me

2003-06-04 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:00 AM 06/03/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote:
That's all nice and good, but why should it be on cypherpunks?  Where's
the relevance to this list?  Why is Ken, or his addres or helipad an
interest to the cypherpunks?  Why is PG&E's monopolistic's actions against
him relevant to the topics of this list?
What's next?  The Cypherpunk Equirer?
Well sure - because not all the Black Helicopters flying over Tim's house
have belonged to Feds/UN/etc. - one of them's probably been Ken's :-)
I've also found Tim's comments on Pynchon living nearby interesting.
IMHO, neither he, nor the Streisand creature have any relevance here -
there perhaps was some relevance in terms of that lawsuit the bitch
started, but, who gives a shit who your neighbors are?
I'd say issues of putting aerial photography on the internet and
how that changes the status of previously "secret" information
are pretty close to our core issues - they're not directly cryptography,
but neither are the "guns, lots of guns" discussions.
I don't know if Hugh ever pulled off the "export RSA by standing in
a bar-code when the Russian 1-meter-resolution spy satellites fly over"...


Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me

2003-06-04 Thread Adam Shostack
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:00:07AM -0400, Sunder wrote:
| That's all nice and good, but why should it be on cypherpunks?  Where's
| the relevance to this list?  Why is Ken, or his addres or helipad an
| interest to the cypherpunks?  Why is PG&E's monopolistic's actions against
| him relevant to the topics of this list?
| 
| What's next?  The Cypherpunk Equirer?

We can hope they return.

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Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me

2003-06-04 Thread Sunder
That's all nice and good, but why should it be on cypherpunks?  Where's
the relevance to this list?  Why is Ken, or his addres or helipad an
interest to the cypherpunks?  Why is PG&E's monopolistic's actions against
him relevant to the topics of this list?

What's next?  The Cypherpunk Equirer?

IMHO, neither he, nor the Streisand creature have any relevance here -
there perhaps was some relevance in terms of that lawsuit the bitch
started, but, who gives a shit who your neighbors are?

Should I start spamming this list with details about my neighbors?


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On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Tim May wrote:

> Ken Adelman, the retired gazillionaire who has gained new fame as a  
> photographer of the California coastline, lives a couple of parcels  
> from me, perhaps half a kilometer.



Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me

2003-06-03 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 07:13:28PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> 
> His address in the phone book is unlisted, but he gave his home address  
> in one or more of his ventures, and so up it popped in a Google search  
> on his name: 1365 Meadowridge Rd., the road just before mine (Allan  
> Lane) off of Brown's Valley Road. My address is 427 Allan Lane.  
> Entering these into Yahoo or Mapquest shows how close our properties  
> are.

   Isn't your local assessor's database online? Here in WI, at least for most of
it, I can just look up someones name and find *all* the property they own. Or
conversely, look up an address and find out who owns it, also what they paid for
it, tax assessment, etc. Some properties, of course, are owned by corporations
or LLC or partnerships so you have to also go to the state databases to find out
who the people are behind the LLC or whatever. 



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