RE: Year in Jail for Web Links
Mac Norton wrote: There was a weapons charge as well, which will always complicate matters considerably. There was a weapons charge -- Molotov cocktail -- in the first indictment which was dropped. The second indictment was for the single charge of distribution of information, to wit: 18:842(p)(2)(A) Distribution of Information Relating to Explosives, Destructive Devices and Weapons of Mass Destruction http://cryptome.org/usa-v-sma-dkt2.htm Mac's right that this kind of information is idiot cousin of controlled substances. Law is an prejudiced ass. That is why Sherman, a minority youngster, took a hit in cracker Southern California while two old honkies on the Left Coast addicted to 1A who offer the same information get no re-education sentence at all -- well, as the Boston youngster wrote yet.
Re: R.I.P. (was: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online)
Oh, like Uday and Qusay, you can't kill this immortal fucker, nobody got the guts to plow a TOW in it. Instead, thousands of gutless have hari-kiried by exiting the battle for well.com nutlick where the dead live in perfect, silent synchrony, so that is a no-brain, no-work option. Sit still, children, repeat this. Hell, start a DOA mail list to bitch about how stupid people are outside of old folks cess-suck. Read yourself sitting on a one-holer. Nothing wrong with cypherpunks that couldn't be cured, as ever, by more fresh young meat totally ignorant and not giving a shit about how it used to be, only hot to throw slop at what's puked by the wizened, the reputable, the stuffed with here's how it's meant to be. Now that revulsion against whoever has truth by tail is a dim memory of what cpunks was meant to be, was now and again, not a place for boozy glory days telling a sanitized tale of what never happened. Pontificators are usually hooted off the list, save for a few protected species taxidermied for darts. The old days, don't believe them, cypherpunks was and is toxic to serious makeovers and shutdowns and lock-outs, and, never forget that PLONKS are cries of shut the fuck up and listen to me. Pluck the PLONKS, if you don't get them you aint earning your stay. PLONKERS little-man your wee-wees. Hiccups a fogey one hand hanging on the bar rail, the other rooting the floor vomit for a chawtabaccy cud ricochet from the spit bucket. ]=; Uday
Re: Jerk with a t-shirt
The rights of property owners, especially commercial property, are not as absolute as sometimes argued. Due to the public services provided by governmental authorities, tax perqs not the least, property owners are required to abide a diverse range of laws and regulations to provide assurance that people on the property are safe. These people include the property owner, family members, employees, customers and others who may not be capable of judging what is safe. Similarly, retail property owners are obliged to provide assurances to customers that they are safe as prescribed by zoning, building and health codes. To be sure there is a lucrative industry of professionals who advise property owners how to skirt these requirements -- public relations mongers, lobbyists, lawyers, zoning consultants, architects, engineers, planners, politicians, so-called public interest groups, bribers, liars, cheaters, the mob, whores, pimps, and so on. Most of these are lightly or unregulated, even those ostensibly licensed to protect the public interest are happy to front for those whose only interest is criminal profit. Keep this in mind: whenever someone argues for the right to do what they want on their property they are blowing shit in your face while picking your pocket and placing you and your beloved mongrels in danger through a smart-ass range of distancing, exculpatory mechanisms, not least several of the constitutional amendments which were set up for just that purpose by the original continental landscape thieves and which are forever being updated to keep the our-screw-you-laws-are-fair-laws racket running smoothly. Thanks to two centuries of warping law and culture to bias stolen property owners, no property owner takes full risk these days, but some will have you killed if you question that, that's what the justice and national security mob is paid handsomely to enforce. Department of Homeland Security looks to be the greatest ever privacy and property expropriation since the national security apparatus was set up after WW2, stolen from the public in the name of protecting it, given over to the homesec contractors, mediated by the homesec slicksters. Homeland is the false positive, as was national defense. I happen to agree with those who said that since he was on private property the property owners had every right to boot him off. I just think you should do a little more fact-checking before you post. Jack
Re: RF Weapons
Tim May wrote: Information Warfare is again being trotted out in the context of currently-deteriorating relations between the U.S.G. and the P.R.C. (China). Wanna bet we start seeing recycled reports about plans to knock out the stock exchanges, with Chinese info-terrorists replacing the IRA terrorists who were said to be planning EMP/HERF attacks on London several years ago? DoJ's rep at the recent 2600 appeal hearing, Daniel Alter, said that DeCSS is comparable to a terrorist weapon that can knock out air control or other vital infrastructure. Some laughed at that, but Jim Bell got hung for using legal databases because of alleged intent to harm which meant he was not a protected journalist. As 2600 was distinguished from the New York Times though both linked to DeCSS. That intent to harm tips benign use of information into criminality. It is probable that such tipping will soon be applied retroactively to information liberators. Thanks heavens nobody here is likely to be found guilty of that. No matter that actual attacks on information instructure is most likely to be made by its alleged protectors needing clearcut reasons to raid and bust and send up the river those who dare to broadcast information about government perfidy. What will be less entertaining is when a recalcitrant log administrator is shot for resisting a lawful command or a site operator assassinated for refusing to pull an embarassing document. As seems is sure to happen with the alleged perps who have legally posted police officers' personal data up in Seattle. What is it with Seattle, anyhow, all the crybercrime fighters there having a field day. Ah, yes they are they are the lynch folks who describe cybercrime as terrorism, in accord with OMB, DoD and DoJ instructions commaned by Congressional edict. Robb London accused Jim Bell in WWA of what Daniel Alter accused Emmanuel Goldstein in SDNY -- distributing information is mass destruction. Intending to harm they chant.
Re: Technological Solution
Tim May wrote: None of the non-cryptographic methods are very resistant to legal, technical, sniffing, and black bag attacks. And only multiply-chained encrypted-at-each-stage messages, a la remailers, are adequate for high-value messages. Those who've read it know that Jim Bamford's Body of Secrets ends with a paragraph on NSA's being unable to cope with the spread of communications protection technology and has come to rely more and more on the Special Collection Service, a joint NSA-CIA black bag operation and other methods of gaining access to targeted material. This comes after decades of NSA disparaging the CIA's reliance on HUMINT in favor of COMINT, ELINT, and a host of technological intelligence gathering methods. Bamford says that NSA's prowess in these methods accounts for its humongous growth into the premier intel agency -- in budget and in personnel. Until the technology it invented, fostered and funded made its way into the private world and then to other countries intel (and allegedly criminal) organizations. From computers to crypto to means to crack or get around those. What will come of Special Collection Service application inside the United States as the fervor for homeland defense burgeons and the redefinition of foreign enemies to include anyone in the US considered to be a threat, is worth pondering, in particular as SCS techniques are shared with domestic agencies to fight the drug war and for counterterrorism -- all domestic agencies now becoming rapidly militarized in policy, training, equipment and close working with DoD. Recall DEA planting the bug on Jim Bell for IRS -- the agency is the most militarized due to the DoD and intel agencies being ordered to fight the drug war in the US and overseas. Recall, too, the amazing 30 agents which raided Jim's home, according to trial testimony by Jeff Gordon, the were all shocked and frightened at the chem-warfare stuff allegedly found there, until the EPA calmed the tough guys. That's the reason Jim's home is listed in the EPA's most hazardous sites compendium for the year of the raid. Last week, as Declan noted there were a series of congressional hearings on homeland security legislation and increased funding for combating high-tech crime. We offer the lengthy testimony on several bills providing for homeland defense and combating terrorism: http://cryptome.org/homeland-terr.htm (286K) As I noted a few days ago, information is now listed with nuclear, biological and chemical threats to the nation, and requires similar intelligence about its danger to the homeland. This could lead to the the technologies Tim lists being defined as homeland information-terrorist threats as our very own Stasi secret police grows rapidly -- informers squealing on family members, vast lists of suspects, and so on. No wonder the CIA has held on to the East German lists of enemies of the state -- its own citizenry -- so fervently. US intel is looking for reasons to live and where best than pursuing you know who, ably assisted by the industry set up by ex-intel members. Those down-sized by the end of the Cold War got bills to pay. Finally, reading the NYT account of Kerry's team killing the Vietnamese is sobering. The article is much more disturbing than accounts of it have portrayed. Kerry's and other killers' spin over the years have induced an intolerance for reading the grim shit that the military does when it is out of control. And be sure to reflect on Bamford's account of the Joint Chiefs planning to fake a terrorist attack on the US to warrant a Cuban offensive. That shit could be in the works even now -- homeland defense is aiming to be a humongous growth industry. One easy way to get that underway is to fake a nationally disruptive infowar attack -- or is that already underway.
USA v. James Bell, Tacoma
James Bell asks through Lou Bell, his mother: [Quote] Please send messages to the following newspapers and ask them why they haven't been following the trial of James Bell in federal court in Tacoma. There will be extremely important testimony by James Bell on Monday. He needs your help. It is an extreme emergency! It is very important that a large number of people contact these newspapers as soon as possible. Thank you. Seattle Times: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seattle Post Intelligencer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oregonian:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Columbian:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Unquote]
AR Politics
(Cyberpass is down.) Jim testified for himself Friday afternoon, presenting as good a narrative as Jeff's. He's due to continue on Monday. Both Jim and Jeff made little use of exhibits, and an observer might think their testimony was scripted by a single writer: both had been well-rehearsed in acting style and voice direction to perform a single story with two Rashomons of the same events, both equally compelling or unbelievable depending on what a viewer wanted to see. The main difference is that Jeff has the backing of a bloated, self-serving justice system: the courthouse, the judge, the agents of several TLAs, guards, marshals, SEATAC, and much more maw needing cases -- Tacoma court is a wasteland of little used overspending. Jim has a roll of the dice with the jurors, all of whom are dressed and look more like Jim than the mani-uniformed and dark-suited officials and rats. Jim has no witnesses: Judge Jack denied all requests, compared to a couple of dozen for the government. Most of Jim's request for discovery have been denied, while the gov gets all it asks for. At the end of Friday Judge Jack denied Jim's request for access to his own discovery notes for use during his testimony. Jim has so far demonstrated that he is several grades of intelligence above that of his official tormentors. And far less prejudicial. So what if the show is scripted that way, that the hero is doomed to be condemned by the king's police, for crowd-pleasing anti-revolutionary politics. And it's blood-quickening incendiary. A local says the news media are staying away from the trial in fear of subpoena -- for the trial, for the grand jury cooking up iA victims.
