Re: FBI Requests File Removal

2000-07-21 Thread Steven Furlong
Anonymous wrote: not revealing fed agents' names The rationale is obvious - Tims may ambush them if their whereabouts become known. In classical Athens, the definition of a tyrant was a ruler who needed bodyguards because the people didn't like him. What do you call it when the

RE: ZKS economic analysis

2000-07-21 Thread Tom Vogt
Ken Brown wrote: every time I see you walking down the street I collect personally identifying information about you. I store it in the little database in my mind. You can't stop me. I may not do much with it, or write it down anywhere, but it's there. Distasteful perhaps, you might not like

Spam bill

2000-07-21 Thread Marcel Popescu
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37665,00.html [Ron Paul] said he opposed Wilson's anti-spam bill because it would cost taxpayers $60 million in computers and Federal Trade Commission labor to implement, and it would stomp on laws already on the books in 16 states. He is also confident

Christianity vs. the 2nd ammendment

2000-07-21 Thread Marcel Popescu
[For the brain-impaired, I agree with the guy.] http://www.guntruths.com/Puckett/christianity_versus_the_second_a.htm Christianity vs. the 2nd ammendment By Brian Puckett I get angry when I consider the utter garbage that some "Christian leaders" nowadays dump on their followers regarding

Re: FBI Requests File Removal

2000-07-21 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 11:17 AM -0400 on 7/21/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote: "Tyrrany" Open mouth, insert spell-check. Tyranny, of course. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131

Re: FBI Requests File Removal

2000-07-21 Thread Steven Furlong
Tim May wrote: Well put. (This is the second fine essay from Gil Hamilton this morning...I hope this signals more signal in the S/N ratio is coming.) Recall the case around October or November of last year when the FBI applied pressure to an ISP to get a "Y2K training tape" yanked off

Re: FBI Requests File Removal

2000-07-21 Thread Steven Furlong
My fingers did me wrong and sent this during editing. Please disregard the immediately preceeding post --- SRF Tim May wrote: Well put. (This is the second fine essay from Gil Hamilton this morning...I hope this signals more signal in the S/N ratio is coming.) I've noticed that, too. Hardly

customs searches of disks?

2000-07-21 Thread David Honig
This came up on [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 12:29 AM 7/21/00 -0700, anonymized wrote: The interesting question (for this list) is, if some border officials search your hard drive and they encounter encrypted files, what will they do? My guess would be that they will demand the key and threaten to