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Re: Fact checking
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Re: Fact checking
Thomas Shaddack (2004-04-28 18:32Z) wrote: What won't hurt could be making them liable for their promises, as they can be considered to be a contract with the voters. With specific penalties for not delivering the results in the specified timeframe. Presidents don't pass laws. Presidential campaigns would be reduced to issues that are mutable (vulnerable?) to executive orders. Individual candidates for federal office can't pass laws either. You want to hold a Senator liable when his compatriots (even if they form the majority) don't support everything your senator supports? Nobody who understands the basics of U.S. government construction could possibly believe that a candidate's promise is a guarantee. It is merely a statement of ideology. What then, consequences for not attempting to effect promises? Who's to judge? -- Not your decision to make. Yes. But it's the right decision, and I made it for my daughter. - Bill and Beatrix
Lowering the Bar for Threats
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Re: Fact checking
Graham Lally (2004-04-28 14:47Z) wrote: Damian Gerow wrote: I don't see any way to educate the mass public. Indeed, why bother? How about a system that removes your right to vote if you haven't exercised it in the last 3 elections? Requiring that adults vote is a terrible idea. While being deathly ill or otherwise unable to vote for three consecutive federal elections is extremely unlikely, the fact remains that failure to vote is not indicative of lack of desire to vote. The above proposal only requires 33% turnout among current non-voters. While that's certainly an improvement (by your metric), it doesn't resolve the core issues. If not voting is the sin you seek to prevent, why settle for 33 percent? If it is dumb voters you're trying to eliminate, requiring them to drive their dumb asses to the polls isn't going to make then any smarter or more informed. It might even increase stupid voting patterns by encouraging dumb people to form cliques. They won't want to appear dumb to their friends as a result of voting for the wrong person, and groupthink is bad for elections. Make sure there's a handy abstain option for those who want to get the point across about lack of choice, and maybe a space to say why, too. Then stick the (anonymous) reasons up in a publicly-viewable space and eh, instant feedback. There is an abstention option. The poll administrator checks off your name when you show up, so someone knows that you voted. You don't have to choose anyone on your ballot. You can either toss it in the garbage on your way out, or draw pictographs derogatory to politicians on non-critical areas of the ballot before feeding it to the fiber-starved voting machine. -- Not your decision to make. Yes. But it's the right decision, and I made it for my daughter. - Bill and Beatrix
Re: Bank transfer via quantum crypto
--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:47:25 -0400 From: Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040113 Thunderbird/0.4 To: Ivan Krstic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Metzdowd Crypto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bank transfer via quantum crypto Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ivan Krstic wrote: I have to agree with Perry on this one: I simply can't see a compelling reason for the push currently being given to ridiculously overpriced implementations of what started off as a lab toy, and what offers - in all seriousness - almost no practical benefits over the proper use of conventional techniques. You are looking at QC from a scientific perspective. What is happening is not scientific, but business. There are a few background issues that need to be brought into focus. 1) The QC business is concentrated in the finance industry, not national security. Most of the fiber runs are within range. 10 miles not 100. 2) Within the finance industry, the security of links is done majorly by using private lines. Put in a private line, and call it secure because only the operator can listen in to it. 3) This model has broken down somewhat due to the arisal of open market net carriers, open colos, etc. So, even though the mindset of private telco line is secure is still prevalent, the access to those lines is much wider than thought. 4) there is eavesdropping going on. This is clear, although it is difficult to find confirmable evidence on it or any stats: Security forces in the US discovered an illegally installed fiber eavesdropping device in Verizon's optical network. It was placed at a mutual fund company..shortly before the release of their quarterly numbers Wolf Report March, 2003 (some PDF that google knows about.) These things are known as vampire taps. Anecdotal evidence suggests that it is widespread, if not exactly rampant. That is, there are dozens or maybe hundreds of people capable of setting up vampire taps. And, this would suggest maybe dozens or hundreds of taps in place. The vampires are not exactly cooperating with hard information, of course. 5) What's in it for them? That part is all too clear. The vampire taps are placed on funds managers to see what they are up to. When the vulnerabilities are revealed over the fibre, the attacker can put in trades that take advantage. In such a case, the profit from each single trade might be in the order of a million (plus or minus a wide range). 6) I have not as yet seen any suggestion that an *active* attack is taking place on the fibres, so far, this is simply a listening attack. The use of the information happens elsewhere, some batch of trades gets initiated over other means. 7) Finally, another thing to bear in mind is that the mutual funds industry is going through what is likely to be the biggest scandal ever. Fines to date are at 1.7bn, and it's only just started. This is bigger than SL, and LTCM, but as the press does not understand it, they have not presented it as such. The suggested assumption to draw from this is that the mutual funds are *easy* to game, and are being gamed in very many and various fashions. A vampire tap is just one way amongst many that are going on. So, in the presence of quite open use of open lines, and in the presence of quite frequent attacking on mutual funds and the like in order to game their systems (endemic), the question has arisen how to secure the lines. Hence, quantum cryptogtaphy. Cryptographers and engineers will recognise that this is a pure FUD play. But, QC is cool, and only cool sells. The business circumstances are ripe for a big cool play that eases the fears of funds that their info is being collected with impunity. It shows them doing something. Where we are now is the start of a new hype cycle. This is to be expected, as the prior hype cycle(s) have passed. PKI has flopped and is now known in the customer base (finance industry and government) as a disaster. But, these same customers are desparate for solutions, and as always are vulnerable to a sales pitch. QC is a technology who's time has come. Expect it to get bigger and bigger for several years, before companies work it out, and it becomes the same disputed, angry white elephant that PKI is now. If anyone is interested in a business idea, now is the time to start building boxes that do just like QC but in software at half the price. And wait for the bubble to burst. iang PS: Points 1-7 are correct AFAIK. Conclusions, beyond those points, are just how I see it, IMHO. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- end forwarded text -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44
The future of security
--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:21:43 +0100 From: Graeme Burnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Enhyper Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The future of security Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello folks, I am doing a presentation on the future of security, which of course includes a component on cryptography. That will be given at this conference on payments systems and security: http://www.enhyper.com/paysec/ Would anyone there have any good predictions on how cryptography is going to unfold in the next few years or so? I have my own ideas, but I would love to see what others see in the crystal ball. Graeme - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- end forwarded text -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
RE: Lowering the Bar for Threats
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Cordian I wonder how long it will be until Americans get their houses pushed over with bulldozers for criticizing the government. Probably at least until after the election. Didn't they do that at Waco? I remember the heavy vehicles knocking in the walls, as all the while the loudspeakers advised the men, women, and children trapped inside that 'this is not a raid'. Peter Trei
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Re: Driver's certificates: Logic meets the streets
At 09:46 AM 4/27/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Bredesen has proposed that the state issue a certificate of driving to those who either have temporary, legal documents to work or go to school here or to those who can prove their identity and residence in Tennessee. The certificates cannot be used as legal identification so, for example, the bearer of a certificate could not use it to board a plane or rent a car. Damn they're stupid in Tenn. Either the cert has identifying information or its useless. If it has identifying info, it can be used as an ID. Regardless of some yokel's fiat.
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:43:17 + From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fact checking Thomas Shaddack (2004-04-28 18:32Z) wrote: What won't hurt could be making them liable for their promises, as they can be considered to be a contract with the voters. With specific penalties for not delivering the results in the specified timeframe. Presidents don't pass laws. Presidential campaigns would be reduced to issues that are mutable (vulnerable?) to executive orders. Individual candidates for federal office can't pass laws either. You want to hold a Senator liable when his compatriots (even if they form the majority) don't support everything your senator supports? Nobody who understands the basics of U.S. government construction could possibly believe that a candidate's promise is a guarantee. It is merely a statement of ideology. What then, consequences for not attempting to effect promises? Who's to judge? You could make giving enforceable promises an option for candidates -- something like If I can't cut taxes in my first term I will eat my hat or ... I'll owe everyone with a voting receipt with my name on it $100. Then there'd be pressure on candidates to boost their credibilty by making enforceable promises instead of empty ones. Secondly you could get around the problems induced by the labyrinthine checks and balances of the US system by tying the liability to measurable behaviors. The president either vetos a certain bill or fails to; a senator or representative either introduces a certain bill or fails to. As long as the bill is specifically identifiable in advance there isn't a great deal of wriggle room. A third alternative is to remove the politiican from the loop. At the same time you vote for candidates, you vote for propositions which become law if approved by a majority of those voting. The problem is who gets to decide what's proposed. Alternatively groups of candidates (e.g. parties) could be able to codify their promises as bills before the election. If a enough candidates who subscribed to the relevant platform get elected, then they're deemed to have voted for the bill already in their official capacity as senator or whatever. cheers, Tim
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Oppenheimer
Apparently someone doesn't know how to use the cypherpunks address... Forwarded without comment. Cheers, RAH --- --- begin forwarded text From: Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above. It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software. Please report problems or inappropriate use to the remailer administrator at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Oppenheimer Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:13:39 +0200 (CEST) A classic illustration of this phenomenon comes from a book entitled Special Tasks (Little-Brown, 1994, 1995) written by Pavel Sudoplatov and his son Anatoly. Lieutenant General Pavel Sudoplatov was Joseph Stalin's NKVD director in charge of stealing atomic secrets. He reported directly to Beria. From page 172: The most vital information for developing the first Soviet atomic bomb came from scientists engaged in the Manhattan Project to build the American Atomic Bomb - Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. Robert Oppenheimer was the director in charge of the Manhattan project. From page 186-87: When it became clear that the atomic project was a heavily guarded, top-secret American priority, Eitingon and I suggested that we use our networks of illegals as couriers for our sources of information. Vassili Zarubin, our Washington rezident, instructed Kheifetz to divorce all intelligence operations from the American Communist party, which we knew would be closely watched by the FBI, and to have Oppenheimer sever all contacts with Communists and left-wingers. On page 188: In 1943, a world-famous actor of the Moscow Yiddish State Art Theatre, Solomon Mikhoels, together with well -known yiddish poet Itzik Feffer, toured the United States on behalf of the Jewish Antifascist Committee. Before their departure, Beria instructed Mikhoels and Feffer to emphasize the great Jewish contribution to science and culture in the Soviet Union. Their assignment was to raise money and convince American public opinion that Soviet anti-semitism had been crushed as a result of Stalin's policies. Kheifetz made sure that the message they brought was conveyed to Oppenheimer. Kheifetz said that Oppenheimer, the son of a German-Jewish immigrant, was deeply moved by the information that a secure place for Jews in the Soviet Union was guaranteed. They discussed Stalin's plans to set up a Jewish autonomous republic in the Crimea after the war was won against facism. Beria understood the psychology of unitary loyalty perfectly! Continuing on page 189: In developing Oppenheimer as a source, Vassili Zarubin's wife, Elizabeth, was essential. She hardly appeared foreign in the United States. Her manner was so natural and sociable that she immediately made friends. Slim, with dark eyes, she had the classic Semitic beauty that attracted both men and women, and she was one of the most successful agent recruiters, establishing her own illegal network of Jewish refugees from Poland, and recruiting one of Szilard's secretaries, who provided technical data. Oppenheimer's rationale was fear that the Germans might produce the first atomic bomb. But all he had to do to beat the Germans to the punch was to build the bomb for America. And indeed, that would have been the natural result of dual loyalties. He could have helped Jews and remained loyal to America at the same time. But then helping America was not in the calculus at all. As Beria understood perfectly, he was concerned only with one unitary question; How does this affect Jews? And the answer was that just as organizing the blacks and browns to vote their antagonistic racial interests is critical to maintaining Jewish power over whites in the 1990's, giving the atomic secrets to Russia was the one way to reduce the power of whites in America in the 1940s and 50s. Oppenheimer's naive view (prior to the creation of the Israeli State) was that a nuclear armed Russia would provide one more possible haven for Jews with the power to protect them. The goyim in our OSS (the forerunner of the CIA) would have assumed dual loyalty and concluded that Oppenheimer presented no security risk. http://www.ddc.net/ygg/rj/rj-26.htm --- end forwarded text -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles'
Rgggh! And posting your full name, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number, the account and expiration dates of all your credit cards + the 3 digit extra code on their backs, ATM card account # and the PIN, plus, several samples of your signature (optional) in JPEG format, and the code to your alarm system on your web page will prevent identity theft. So, whaddayasay? It's a fine bridge, lightly used, as you can see, it's got a lotta traffic between Manhattan and Brooklyn, I could sell it to you real cheap, 'cause you look like a nice guy and all, you know, you could make a fortune, setup a toll booth and all that. R. A. Hettinga wrote: Horseman #1, Terrorists: Check. Horseman #2, Pedophiles: Check. Next? Cheers, RAH - http://news.scotsman.com/print.cfm?id=2844122referringtemplate=http%3A%2F%2Fnews%2Escotsman%2Ecom%2Flatest%2Ecfmreferringquerystring=id%3D2844122 print close Tue 27 Apr 2004 2:47am (UK) Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles' By James Lyons, Political Correspondent, PA News Identity cards will help keep youngsters safe from perverts, Education Secretary Charles Clarke claimed today.
Re: Fact checking
Thus spake Justin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/04/04 15:41]: : Damian Gerow wrote: : I don't see any way to educate the mass public. : : Indeed, why bother? How about a system that removes your right to vote : if you haven't exercised it in the last 3 elections? : : Requiring that adults vote is a terrible idea. While being deathly ill : or otherwise unable to vote for three consecutive federal elections is : extremely unlikely, the fact remains that failure to vote is not : indicative of lack of desire to vote. Proxy vote. I did it for two 'invalid' relatives this year. Besides, this isn't requiring them to vote. : The above proposal only requires 33% turnout among current non-voters. : While that's certainly an improvement (by your metric), it doesn't : resolve the core issues. Not in the first year, no. And not in the second year, nor in the third. But in the fourth, you'll see a drastic drop in the number of apathetic voters -- the ones who don't care. What this /won't/ have an effect on is mis-informed voting. People who vote because they've been paid to do so, or because some other influencing factor(s) got the voters out there, aside from knowing the candidates and voting for the one you honestly believe will do the best job. : If not voting is the sin you seek to prevent, why settle for 33 percent? : If it is dumb voters you're trying to eliminate, requiring them to drive : their dumb asses to the polls isn't going to make then any smarter or : more informed. It might even increase stupid voting patterns by : encouraging dumb people to form cliques. They won't want to appear dumb : to their friends as a result of voting for the wrong person, and : groupthink is bad for elections. Australia has mandatory voting. I think that's what you're arguing against -- this is essentially a way to say, I'd rather not vote by not actually doing anything. It's perfect for the already lazy and apathetic folks. It forces nobody's hand, places no undue expectations on anyone, and doesn't bend the rules of democracy. It simply says that if you don't want to vote, fine, we just won't include you in the valid voters list. : Make sure there's a handy abstain option for those who want to get : the point across about lack of choice, and maybe a space to say why, : too. Then stick the (anonymous) reasons up in a publicly-viewable : space and eh, instant feedback. : : There is an abstention option. The poll administrator checks off your : name when you show up, so someone knows that you voted. You don't : have to choose anyone on your ballot. You can either toss it in the : garbage on your way out, or draw pictographs derogatory to politicians : on non-critical areas of the ballot before feeding it to the : fiber-starved voting machine. AFAIK, you can't toss your ballot out in Canada. And there's a certain way to mark it to 'abstain' -- not just drawing cartoons on it.
Re: Airport security failures justify CAPPS-II snoop system
Meh, same old song: NSA/CIA/FBI failed to prevent the WTC missile attacks, despite the billions of dollars they receive per annum, so guess what, they get rewarded with guess what kiddies, even more tax payer dollars! Condoleeza Rice lies about a specific PDB, calling it historical and doesn't charged with perjury after said PDB is declassified. Sibel Edmonds, a Turkish American with top security clearance, who worked as a translator at FBI HQ says that she saw information that proved top US officials knew months before 9.11.2001 that Al Qaeda planned to use airplanes as missiles, but isn't allowed to testify on grounds that it would compromise national security. Damn right it would - there should be riots in the streets over this, and those top US officials should be jailed for gross negligence causing the loss of 3000 lives. NSA, CIA, FBI weren't allowed to share databases because of wisely thought out checks and balances to prevent privacy and other types of abuses, so they were thrown out, not that they really existed in the first place. (i.e. NSA isn't allowed to spy on US citizens, so it uses one of it's buddies, perhaps UK, or Australia to do the dirty work.) Airport security fails, so Uncle Sam gets to spend even more tax payer dollars on TSA. TSA fails, and instead of it being punished, its ineptitude gets rewarded by getting justification for more draconian laws, and even more tax payer cash... woo hoo! R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/26/airport_security_failures/print.html Airport security failures justify CAPPS-II snoop system By Thomas C Greene ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Published Monday 26th April 2004 20:21 GMT Recent government reports on the failure of American airport screeners to detect threat objects at security checkpoints may provide ammunition for proponents of the controversial Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II) database solution, which is currently stalled by myriad snafus too numerous to mention.
Re: Fact checking
Thus spake Harmon Seaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/04/04 11:40]: : Hi, Sir, my name is Bob and I'm here to educate you about all the : candidates in the upcoming election that your eight second attention span : will allow me. Oops, I guess I've used it all up. Bye now! : : These things all work in theory, but never in practice. : : You obviously have never done any door-to-door. People are quite often very : interested. We've had fairly good success organizing people on local issues : which affect them, like opposition to street widening. Voter registration is the : same thing. Actually, I /have/ done door-to-door. Granted, it's not extensive, but I have been involved in a few campaigns. In a good neighbourhood, we'd get about 3/4 of the people who would care enough or have enough time at that moment to listen/contribute. : Why bother putting something up in a library? Chances are, if someone's : reading it there, they're already somewhat knowledgable about the : candidates. Or heck, maybe they're even there to do /research/ on them! : :The mention was giving talks in libraries, which works fairly well. The : local library is the logical meeting place for local groups to hold meetings and : talks. Yes, it does, so long as you get people there. It's the getting people there that's difficult. I s'pose a door-to-door campaign advertising a speaking at the library would be best.
Re: Fact checking
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Tim Benham wrote: I bet people would start voting after that. If they don't, offer them two vials of crack! It's already being done; it's called political promises. The candidates are usually pretty high on that stuff. What won't hurt could be making them liable for their promises, as they can be considered to be a contract with the voters. With specific penalties for not delivering the results in the specified timeframe.
The crypto whiz
http://news.com.com/2102-7355_3-5201504.html?tag=st.util.print CNET News http://www.news.com/ The crypto whiz By Michael Kanellos and Charles Cooper Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2008-7355-5201504.html Story last modified April 28, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist of Cryptography Research, came to prominence in the industry by breaking things. In 1998, the company cracked security on smart cards by monitoring how much power their internal microprocessors used. Kocher also came up with the software inside Deep Crack, a machine tailored to crack encrypted documents. Of course, he also fixes things. In the last few years, Kocher has emerged as one of the key technologists for financial companies and studios that are hoping to protect their intellectual property. He recently sat down with CNET News.com to discuss the ongoing melodramas surrounding privacy, piracy and stolen information. Q: What is the top agenda issue for cryptography? A: Let me tell you what it is not. The one thing that is stable--and really, nobody should be spending too much time worrying about--is which algorithms to use and what key sizes to use. Those are simple problems. The huge challenge, from a technical perspective, is handling complexity, because we are getting systems that are just more and more complicated, and nobody knows how to get the bugs out. The software side or hardware? Every legacy feature is a potential exposure. Software, hardware--everything. You pick it, and it is a lot more complicated today than it used to be, whether it is your network, whether it is your individual PC, whether it is a device of some kind, whether it is your microprocessor. Nobody ever removes features; they only add them--and from a security perspective, every legacy feature is a potential exposure. If you have one component that you understand really well, it is pretty easy to get your hands around your one simple piece. But then you start having 600 components that all talk to each other. Not only do you have 600 times as many components to worry about, you have to worry about all of the interactions between these things. So you have now got 360,000 different interactions. This is just horrible, because one person can no longer understand it; one person can no longer even begin to debug it. So, then you try to assign groups of people to individual pieces of the problem. But a lot of people staring at different angles of the elephant often will miss the big picture. In order to just handle this technical problem, what we often try to do is first simplify things. If you look at some of those things that we design, once you get your mind on what it is doing, it seems simple, compared to a lot of other things. That way, we can be more confident that we have not missed something. Can you give us an overview of what Cryptography Research does? Typically, our goal is to bring new technical approaches to solving really hard security problems. When you are dealing with any kind of new technology, if it backfires, there is a substantial risk. The ones that we have had the most success with have been with the security challenges of financial institutions like credit card organizations. Another area we are focusing on increasingly is piracy. We also do a lot of work with infrastructure wireless systems. Most of our revenues are from technology licensing, but most of our time goes into services. How bad is the privacy situation getting? Privacy is going to become a bigger and bigger problem over time, because sensors and data collection capabilities are improving along with Moore's Law. People collect data but do not have any plan of how they are going to get rid of it or what they are going to do with it, and so you end up aggregating vast quantities of data. It is a huge privacy risk. I can now record as much audio as I will ever experience in my entire life, and video will be there in just a few years. The chips to do location tracking are getting smaller and smaller. There is one in my cell phone. Anybody who knows what they are doing can know where I am. There is this notion that information is bad in aggregate--but good in the cases where you need it. This is something that is very alien to a lot of people, and I am not sure how to solve it. Piracy continues to be a huge, hot potato, with the studios blaming the device makers and the hardware makers trying to put responsibility on the studios. How will this get resolved? The studios are rightly upset that these companies are not spending as much money as they should to solve their security problems. But is it my job to keep your house from getting broken into? The way that I believe that it should work instead is that the studio should put some security code on the disk, and the player should run it. The technical impediments to piracy that's based on copying and storing the data are going to go
RSA-576 Factored
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2003-12-05/rsa/ MathWorld Headline News RSA-576 Factored By Eric W. Weisstein December 5, 2003--On December 3, the day after the announcement of the discovery of the largest known prime by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search on December 2 (MathWorld headline news, December 2, 2003), a team at the German Federal Agency for Information Technology Security (BIS) announced the factorization of the 174-digit number 1881 9881292060 7963838697 2394616504 3980716356 3379417382 7007633564 2298885971 5234665485 3190606065 0474304531 7388011303 3967161996 9232120573 4031879550 6569962213 0516875930 7650257059 known as RSA-576. RSA numbers are composite numbers having exactly two prime factors (i.e., so-called semiprimes) that have been listed in the Factoring Challenge of RSA Security®. While composite numbers are defined as numbers that can be written as a product of smaller numbers known as factors (for example, 6 = 2 x 3 is composite with factors 2 and 3), prime numbers have no such decomposition (for example, 7 does not have any factors other than 1 and itself). Prime factors therefore represent a fundamental (and unique) decomposition of a given positive integer. RSA numbers are special types of composite numbers particularly chosen to be difficult to factor, and they are identified by the number of digits they contain. While RSA-576 is a much smaller number than the 6,320,430-digit monster Mersenne prime announced earlier this week, its factorization is significant because of the curious property of numbers that proving or disproving a number to be prime (primality testing) seems to be much easier than actually identifying the factors of a number (prime factorization). Thus, while it is trivial to multiply two large numbers p and q together, it can be extremely difficult to determine the factors if only their product pq is given. With some ingenuity, this property can be used to create practical and efficient encryption systems for electronic data. RSA Laboratories sponsors the RSA Factoring Challenge to encourage research into computational number theory and the practical difficulty of factoring large integers and also because it can be helpful for users of the RSA encryption public-key cryptography algorithm for choosing suitable key lengths for an appropriate level of security. A cash prize is awarded to the first person to factor each challenge number. RSA numbers were originally spaced at intervals of 10 decimal digits between one and five hundred digits, and prizes were awarded according to a complicated formula. These original numbers were named according to the number of decimal digits, so RSA-100 was a hundred-digit number. As computers and algorithms became faster, the unfactored challenge numbers were removed from the prize list and replaced with a set of numbers with fixed cash prizes. At this point, the naming convention was also changed so that the trailing number indicates the number of digits in the binary representation of the number. Hence, RSA-576 has 576 binary digits, which translates to 174 digits in decimal. RSA numbers received widespread attention when a 129-digit number known as RSA-129 was used by R. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. Adleman to publish one of the first public-key messages together with a $100 reward for the message's decryption (Gardner 1977). Despite widespread belief at the time that the message encoded by RSA-129 would take millions of years to break, it was factored in 1994 using a distributed computation that harnessed networked computers spread around the globe performing a multiple polynomial quadratic sieve (Leutwyler 1994). The result of all the concentrated number crunching was decryption of the encoded message to yield the profound plain-text message The magic words are squeamish ossifrage. (An ossifrage is a rare predatory vulture found in the mountains of Europe.) Factorization of RSA-129 followed earlier factorizations of RSA-100, RSA-110, and RSA-120. The challenge numbers RSA-130, RSA-140, RSA-155, and RSA-160 were also subsequently factored between 1996 and April of this year. (Amusingly, RSA-150 apparently remains unfactored following its withdrawal from the RSA Challenge list.) On December 2, Jens Franke circulated an email announcing factorization of the smallest prize number RSA-576. The factorization was accomplished using a prime factorization algorithm known as the general number field sieve. The two 87-digit factors found using this sieve are 3980750 8642406493 7397125500 5503864911 9906436234 2526708406 3851895759 4638895726 1768583317 x 4727721 4610743530 2536223071 9730482246 3291469530 2097116459 8521711305 2071125636 3590397527 and can easily be multiplied to verify that they do indeed give the original number. Franke's note detailed the factorization process in which lattice sieving was done by J. Franke and T. Kleinjung using hardware at the Scientific Computing Institute
[Neuclear-general] ANNOUNCE: NeuClear XMLSig 0.13 Released
--- begin forwarded text From: Pelle Braendgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Neuclear-general] ANNOUNCE: NeuClear XMLSig 0.13 Released Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: neuclear-general.lists.sourceforge.net List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/neuclear-general, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=neuclear-general Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:47:48 -0500 Panama City, 28th of April 2004. We are happy to announce the 0.13 release of NeuClear XMLSIG. Major new features are: * Support for Interactive signing * HTML Signatures For more info see: http://dev.neuclear.org/xmlsig/ For a quick usage introduction see the Busy Developers Guide at: http://dev.neuclear.org/xmlsig/bdg.html To try it out interactively run the following (Requires Java 1.4 or above with Java Web Start) http://dist.neuclear.org/app/neuclear-signer.jnlp -- http://talk.org + Live and direct from Panama http://neuclear.org + Clear it both ways with NeuClear --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Neuclear-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/neuclear-general --- end forwarded text -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
[Neuclear-general] ANNOUNCE: Released version 0.7 of NeuClear Commons
--- begin forwarded text From: Pelle Braendgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: VERAX Inc To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Neuclear-general] ANNOUNCE: Released version 0.7 of NeuClear Commons Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: neuclear-general.lists.sourceforge.net List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/neuclear-general, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=neuclear-general Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:30:11 -0500 Panama City, 28 April, 2004. We are happy to announce the 0.7 release of NeuClear Commons. Main goal of this release is to support the 0.9 release of NeuClear ID. Download it today and join in the NeuClear revolution. Major new features are: * New Swing based Passphrase Agent * DefaultSigner is now completely interactive. * SQLSigner stores Public Private Key Pairs in SQL using Hibernate. * Removed all old SQL support code. * Added in memory caching to Public Key Resolver * Added new interactive signing model with the BrowsableSigner interface * New SetPublicKeyCallback method for returning the public key in interactive applications For more information see: http://dev.neuclear.org/commons/ Full Release notes below: Release Notes - NeuClear Commons - Version r_0_7 ** Bug * [COM-13] - Handle Invalid Passphrase in SwingAgent * [COM-14] - Use different screen layout for normal passphrase in SwingAgent * [COM-25] - Remembered passphrase is forgotten if identity is changed * [COM-27] - Loop when JCESigner is loaded with incorrect passphrase * [COM-31] - Remembered passphrase doesnt enable sign button * [COM-33] - Signed HTML generated by Identity and subclasses fail verification ** New Feature * [COM-4] - Create Completely Interactive Signing Method * [COM-5] - Support for more advanced passphrase agent * [COM-6] - Set PublicKey Callback Method * [COM-10] - Create Improved GUI Agent * [COM-11] - Add remember Passphrase to SwingAgent * [COM-12] - Add Identity Generator to SwingAgent * [COM-16] - add Password encrypted private key methods to CryptoTools * [COM-17] - Create SQLSigner * [COM-18] - Make DefaultSigner an intelligent wrapper for end user signing front ends * [COM-20] - Add Save Key Store Dialog to InteractiveAgent * [COM-21] - Add Open Key Store Dialog to InteractiveAgent * [COM-22] - Implement Save in SwingAgent ** Task * [COM-15] - Update project.xml with latest dependencies * [COM-32] - Drop all the sql packages as no longer needed ** Improvement * [COM-9] - Add in memory caching to PublicKey Resolver * [COM-19] - Create signing task queue on SwingAgent * [COM-26] - Change to DefaultSigner's method of saving -- http://talk.org + Live and direct from Panama http://neuclear.org + Clear it both ways with NeuClear --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Neuclear-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/neuclear-general --- end forwarded text -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: Fact checking
Damian Gerow wrote: Why bother putting something up in a library? Chances are, if someone's reading it there, they're already somewhat knowledgable about the candidates. Or heck, maybe they're even there to do /research/ on them! [...] I don't see any way to educate the mass public. Indeed, why bother? How about a system that removes your right to vote if you haven't exercised it in the last 3 elections? That way you cut out all those who really don't care, and provide an incentive for those who might. Nothing grabs attention like threatening to remove /privileges/, even if they don't actually get used. Make sure there's a handy abstain option for those who want to get the point across about lack of choice, and maybe a space to say why, too. Then stick the (anonymous) reasons up in a publicly-viewable space and eh, instant feedback. Or something. .g -- I have practysed lerned at my grete charge dispense to ordeyne this said book in prynte that every man may have them attones. - W. Caxton
Arrested for webmastering
Computer Student on Trial for Aid to Muslim Web Sites By TIMOTHY EGAN Published: April 27, 2004 OISE, Idaho, April 23 Not long after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a group of Muslim students led by a Saudi Arabian doctoral candidate held a candlelight vigil in the small college town of Moscow, Idaho, and condemned the attacks as an affront to Islam. Today, that graduate student, Sami Omar al-Hussayen, is on trial in a heavily guarded courtroom here, accused of plotting to aid and to maintain Islamic Web sites that promote jihad. As a Web master to several Islamic organizations, Mr. Hussayen helped to maintain Internet sites with links to groups that praised suicide bombings in Chechnya and in Israel. But he himself does not hold those views, his lawyers said. His role was like that of a technical editor, they said, arguing that he could not be held criminally liable for what others wrote. Civil libertarians say the case poses a landmark test of what people can do or whom they can associate with in the age of terror alerts. It is one of the few times anyone has been prosecuted under language in the antiterrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act, which makes it a crime to provide expert guidance or assistance to groups deemed terrorist. Somebody who fixes a fax machine that is owned by a group that may advocate terrorism could be liable, said David Cole, a Georgetown University law professor who argued against the expert guidance part of the antiterrorism law this year, in a case where it was struck down by a federal judge. snip http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/national/27BOIS.html?pagewanted=all; .. Compare to the recent law where editing a paper from a nasty nation would be illegal. The IEEE kissed Ashcroft's ass, other periodicals objected more. -- Of course there are limits in regards to freedom of speech. They are as follows: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Everything else is, of course, allowed. -Sunder
Re: Infrared flash?
At 10:28 PM 4/26/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: But when I want a really bright flash on about 800-900 nm, what approach is the best? A 1 watt IR laser diode used for burning wood. They show up on eBay for ~$100.Might start a fire though :-) Also has pointing issues. What would be the best approach? The energies here are more in the range of rotation/vibration changes than electrons jumping up and down between the energy states. How to convert a blast of electrical energy into a shower of near-IR photons? Regular tungsten driven to red but not bright, with a piece of low-pass filtering glass over it. You can't get rapid modulation with tungsten, of course, but a few Hz is possible. Years ago IR leds on baseball caps were posited for defeating certain (eg ATM) cameras. Don't know if they worked.
Tipper piggy Gore
At 06:39 PM 4/26/04 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: And, like all statists, they went widely astray of their goals. Frank Zappa's _Jazz from Hell_ got a Tipper Sticker, indicating obscene lyrics. They didn't notice that _JfH_ was an instrumental album. I didn't know that album got Tippered. I do know that the she-pig's voice is on the Mothers of Prevention album.
Re: Driver's certificates: Logic meets the streets
At 09:46 AM 4/27/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Bredesen has proposed that the state issue a certificate of driving to those who either have temporary, legal documents to work or go to school here or to those who can prove their identity and residence in Tennessee. The certificates cannot be used as legal identification so, for example, the bearer of a certificate could not use it to board a plane or rent a car. Damn they're stupid in Tenn. Either the cert has identifying information or its useless. If it has identifying info, it can be used as an ID. Regardless of some yokel's fiat.
Re: Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles'
Rgggh! And posting your full name, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number, the account and expiration dates of all your credit cards + the 3 digit extra code on their backs, ATM card account # and the PIN, plus, several samples of your signature (optional) in JPEG format, and the code to your alarm system on your web page will prevent identity theft. So, whaddayasay? It's a fine bridge, lightly used, as you can see, it's got a lotta traffic between Manhattan and Brooklyn, I could sell it to you real cheap, 'cause you look like a nice guy and all, you know, you could make a fortune, setup a toll booth and all that. R. A. Hettinga wrote: Horseman #1, Terrorists: Check. Horseman #2, Pedophiles: Check. Next? Cheers, RAH - http://news.scotsman.com/print.cfm?id=2844122referringtemplate=http%3A%2F%2Fnews%2Escotsman%2Ecom%2Flatest%2Ecfmreferringquerystring=id%3D2844122 print close Tue 27 Apr 2004 2:47am (UK) Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles' By James Lyons, Political Correspondent, PA News Identity cards will help keep youngsters safe from perverts, Education Secretary Charles Clarke claimed today.
Oppenheimer
Apparently someone doesn't know how to use the cypherpunks address... Forwarded without comment. Cheers, RAH --- --- begin forwarded text From: Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above. It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software. Please report problems or inappropriate use to the remailer administrator at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Oppenheimer Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:13:39 +0200 (CEST) A classic illustration of this phenomenon comes from a book entitled Special Tasks (Little-Brown, 1994, 1995) written by Pavel Sudoplatov and his son Anatoly. Lieutenant General Pavel Sudoplatov was Joseph Stalin's NKVD director in charge of stealing atomic secrets. He reported directly to Beria. From page 172: The most vital information for developing the first Soviet atomic bomb came from scientists engaged in the Manhattan Project to build the American Atomic Bomb - Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. Robert Oppenheimer was the director in charge of the Manhattan project. From page 186-87: When it became clear that the atomic project was a heavily guarded, top-secret American priority, Eitingon and I suggested that we use our networks of illegals as couriers for our sources of information. Vassili Zarubin, our Washington rezident, instructed Kheifetz to divorce all intelligence operations from the American Communist party, which we knew would be closely watched by the FBI, and to have Oppenheimer sever all contacts with Communists and left-wingers. On page 188: In 1943, a world-famous actor of the Moscow Yiddish State Art Theatre, Solomon Mikhoels, together with well -known yiddish poet Itzik Feffer, toured the United States on behalf of the Jewish Antifascist Committee. Before their departure, Beria instructed Mikhoels and Feffer to emphasize the great Jewish contribution to science and culture in the Soviet Union. Their assignment was to raise money and convince American public opinion that Soviet anti-semitism had been crushed as a result of Stalin's policies. Kheifetz made sure that the message they brought was conveyed to Oppenheimer. Kheifetz said that Oppenheimer, the son of a German-Jewish immigrant, was deeply moved by the information that a secure place for Jews in the Soviet Union was guaranteed. They discussed Stalin's plans to set up a Jewish autonomous republic in the Crimea after the war was won against facism. Beria understood the psychology of unitary loyalty perfectly! Continuing on page 189: In developing Oppenheimer as a source, Vassili Zarubin's wife, Elizabeth, was essential. She hardly appeared foreign in the United States. Her manner was so natural and sociable that she immediately made friends. Slim, with dark eyes, she had the classic Semitic beauty that attracted both men and women, and she was one of the most successful agent recruiters, establishing her own illegal network of Jewish refugees from Poland, and recruiting one of Szilard's secretaries, who provided technical data. Oppenheimer's rationale was fear that the Germans might produce the first atomic bomb. But all he had to do to beat the Germans to the punch was to build the bomb for America. And indeed, that would have been the natural result of dual loyalties. He could have helped Jews and remained loyal to America at the same time. But then helping America was not in the calculus at all. As Beria understood perfectly, he was concerned only with one unitary question; How does this affect Jews? And the answer was that just as organizing the blacks and browns to vote their antagonistic racial interests is critical to maintaining Jewish power over whites in the 1990's, giving the atomic secrets to Russia was the one way to reduce the power of whites in America in the 1940s and 50s. Oppenheimer's naive view (prior to the creation of the Israeli State) was that a nuclear armed Russia would provide one more possible haven for Jews with the power to protect them. The goyim in our OSS (the forerunner of the CIA) would have assumed dual loyalty and concluded that Oppenheimer presented no security risk. http://www.ddc.net/ygg/rj/rj-26.htm --- end forwarded text -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: Airport security failures justify CAPPS-II snoop system
Meh, same old song: NSA/CIA/FBI failed to prevent the WTC missile attacks, despite the billions of dollars they receive per annum, so guess what, they get rewarded with guess what kiddies, even more tax payer dollars! Condoleeza Rice lies about a specific PDB, calling it historical and doesn't charged with perjury after said PDB is declassified. Sibel Edmonds, a Turkish American with top security clearance, who worked as a translator at FBI HQ says that she saw information that proved top US officials knew months before 9.11.2001 that Al Qaeda planned to use airplanes as missiles, but isn't allowed to testify on grounds that it would compromise national security. Damn right it would - there should be riots in the streets over this, and those top US officials should be jailed for gross negligence causing the loss of 3000 lives. NSA, CIA, FBI weren't allowed to share databases because of wisely thought out checks and balances to prevent privacy and other types of abuses, so they were thrown out, not that they really existed in the first place. (i.e. NSA isn't allowed to spy on US citizens, so it uses one of it's buddies, perhaps UK, or Australia to do the dirty work.) Airport security fails, so Uncle Sam gets to spend even more tax payer dollars on TSA. TSA fails, and instead of it being punished, its ineptitude gets rewarded by getting justification for more draconian laws, and even more tax payer cash... woo hoo! R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/26/airport_security_failures/print.html Airport security failures justify CAPPS-II snoop system By Thomas C Greene ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Published Monday 26th April 2004 20:21 GMT Recent government reports on the failure of American airport screeners to detect threat objects at security checkpoints may provide ammunition for proponents of the controversial Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II) database solution, which is currently stalled by myriad snafus too numerous to mention.
Re: Fact checking
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Tim Benham wrote: I bet people would start voting after that. If they don't, offer them two vials of crack! It's already being done; it's called political promises. The candidates are usually pretty high on that stuff. What won't hurt could be making them liable for their promises, as they can be considered to be a contract with the voters. With specific penalties for not delivering the results in the specified timeframe.
Re: Fact checking
Thomas Shaddack (2004-04-28 18:32Z) wrote: What won't hurt could be making them liable for their promises, as they can be considered to be a contract with the voters. With specific penalties for not delivering the results in the specified timeframe. Presidents don't pass laws. Presidential campaigns would be reduced to issues that are mutable (vulnerable?) to executive orders. Individual candidates for federal office can't pass laws either. You want to hold a Senator liable when his compatriots (even if they form the majority) don't support everything your senator supports? Nobody who understands the basics of U.S. government construction could possibly believe that a candidate's promise is a guarantee. It is merely a statement of ideology. What then, consequences for not attempting to effect promises? Who's to judge? -- Not your decision to make. Yes. But it's the right decision, and I made it for my daughter. - Bill and Beatrix
Re: cypherpunks-digest V1 #13260
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:43:17 + From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fact checking Thomas Shaddack (2004-04-28 18:32Z) wrote: What won't hurt could be making them liable for their promises, as they can be considered to be a contract with the voters. With specific penalties for not delivering the results in the specified timeframe. Presidents don't pass laws. Presidential campaigns would be reduced to issues that are mutable (vulnerable?) to executive orders. Individual candidates for federal office can't pass laws either. You want to hold a Senator liable when his compatriots (even if they form the majority) don't support everything your senator supports? Nobody who understands the basics of U.S. government construction could possibly believe that a candidate's promise is a guarantee. It is merely a statement of ideology. What then, consequences for not attempting to effect promises? Who's to judge? You could make giving enforceable promises an option for candidates -- something like If I can't cut taxes in my first term I will eat my hat or ... I'll owe everyone with a voting receipt with my name on it $100. Then there'd be pressure on candidates to boost their credibilty by making enforceable promises instead of empty ones. Secondly you could get around the problems induced by the labyrinthine checks and balances of the US system by tying the liability to measurable behaviors. The president either vetos a certain bill or fails to; a senator or representative either introduces a certain bill or fails to. As long as the bill is specifically identifiable in advance there isn't a great deal of wriggle room. A third alternative is to remove the politiican from the loop. At the same time you vote for candidates, you vote for propositions which become law if approved by a majority of those voting. The problem is who gets to decide what's proposed. Alternatively groups of candidates (e.g. parties) could be able to codify their promises as bills before the election. If a enough candidates who subscribed to the relevant platform get elected, then they're deemed to have voted for the bill already in their official capacity as senator or whatever. cheers, Tim
Re: Fact checking
Thus spake Harmon Seaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/04/04 11:40]: : Hi, Sir, my name is Bob and I'm here to educate you about all the : candidates in the upcoming election that your eight second attention span : will allow me. Oops, I guess I've used it all up. Bye now! : : These things all work in theory, but never in practice. : : You obviously have never done any door-to-door. People are quite often very : interested. We've had fairly good success organizing people on local issues : which affect them, like opposition to street widening. Voter registration is the : same thing. Actually, I /have/ done door-to-door. Granted, it's not extensive, but I have been involved in a few campaigns. In a good neighbourhood, we'd get about 3/4 of the people who would care enough or have enough time at that moment to listen/contribute. : Why bother putting something up in a library? Chances are, if someone's : reading it there, they're already somewhat knowledgable about the : candidates. Or heck, maybe they're even there to do /research/ on them! : :The mention was giving talks in libraries, which works fairly well. The : local library is the logical meeting place for local groups to hold meetings and : talks. Yes, it does, so long as you get people there. It's the getting people there that's difficult. I s'pose a door-to-door campaign advertising a speaking at the library would be best.
Re: Fact checking
Thus spake Justin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/04/04 15:41]: : Damian Gerow wrote: : I don't see any way to educate the mass public. : : Indeed, why bother? How about a system that removes your right to vote : if you haven't exercised it in the last 3 elections? : : Requiring that adults vote is a terrible idea. While being deathly ill : or otherwise unable to vote for three consecutive federal elections is : extremely unlikely, the fact remains that failure to vote is not : indicative of lack of desire to vote. Proxy vote. I did it for two 'invalid' relatives this year. Besides, this isn't requiring them to vote. : The above proposal only requires 33% turnout among current non-voters. : While that's certainly an improvement (by your metric), it doesn't : resolve the core issues. Not in the first year, no. And not in the second year, nor in the third. But in the fourth, you'll see a drastic drop in the number of apathetic voters -- the ones who don't care. What this /won't/ have an effect on is mis-informed voting. People who vote because they've been paid to do so, or because some other influencing factor(s) got the voters out there, aside from knowing the candidates and voting for the one you honestly believe will do the best job. : If not voting is the sin you seek to prevent, why settle for 33 percent? : If it is dumb voters you're trying to eliminate, requiring them to drive : their dumb asses to the polls isn't going to make then any smarter or : more informed. It might even increase stupid voting patterns by : encouraging dumb people to form cliques. They won't want to appear dumb : to their friends as a result of voting for the wrong person, and : groupthink is bad for elections. Australia has mandatory voting. I think that's what you're arguing against -- this is essentially a way to say, I'd rather not vote by not actually doing anything. It's perfect for the already lazy and apathetic folks. It forces nobody's hand, places no undue expectations on anyone, and doesn't bend the rules of democracy. It simply says that if you don't want to vote, fine, we just won't include you in the valid voters list. : Make sure there's a handy abstain option for those who want to get : the point across about lack of choice, and maybe a space to say why, : too. Then stick the (anonymous) reasons up in a publicly-viewable : space and eh, instant feedback. : : There is an abstention option. The poll administrator checks off your : name when you show up, so someone knows that you voted. You don't : have to choose anyone on your ballot. You can either toss it in the : garbage on your way out, or draw pictographs derogatory to politicians : on non-critical areas of the ballot before feeding it to the : fiber-starved voting machine. AFAIK, you can't toss your ballot out in Canada. And there's a certain way to mark it to 'abstain' -- not just drawing cartoons on it.
Lowering the Bar for Threats
Federal Prosecutors say the conviction of Matthew Hale on charges including trying to have a federal judge killed sends an important message. But don't they always? The plot to kill the federal judge in this case consisted of a recorded conversation with an FBI Informant which went something like this... FBI Shill: Are we gonna exterminate the rat? Hale: I'm going to fight within the law and, but, ... if you wish to, ah, do anything, yourself, you can. Uh, right. Emboldened by their latest success in pushing the envelope, the Feebs now plan to monitor so-called Hate Sites more closely, and warn that under the new standards, simply publishing someone's address could be considered a murder threat. Meanwhile, a man totally unconnected with the case is under 24 hour Feeb protection because he has the same name as the aforementioned FBI Shill, and someone posted his address on the Web by mistake. Murder plotting is easy. Comedy is hard. In other threat related news, a 15 year high school freshman in Washington was questioned by the Secret Circus after a portfolio of drawings he turned in featured an armed Middle Eastern man holding an oversized Shrub head on a stick. We can all thank God he didn't publish the President's address. So apparently, if someone asks me if I plan to kill the President, and I reply that I intend to conform my behavior to all the requirements of the law, but that I wouldn't cry uncontrollably if Shrub were dropped by parachute into a mob of screaming Iraqi women with cleavers, that's apparently good for a long prison sentence these days. I wonder how long it will be until Americans get their houses pushed over with bulldozers for criticizing the government. Probably at least until after the election. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law
Re: Fact checking
Graham Lally (2004-04-28 14:47Z) wrote: Damian Gerow wrote: I don't see any way to educate the mass public. Indeed, why bother? How about a system that removes your right to vote if you haven't exercised it in the last 3 elections? Requiring that adults vote is a terrible idea. While being deathly ill or otherwise unable to vote for three consecutive federal elections is extremely unlikely, the fact remains that failure to vote is not indicative of lack of desire to vote. The above proposal only requires 33% turnout among current non-voters. While that's certainly an improvement (by your metric), it doesn't resolve the core issues. If not voting is the sin you seek to prevent, why settle for 33 percent? If it is dumb voters you're trying to eliminate, requiring them to drive their dumb asses to the polls isn't going to make then any smarter or more informed. It might even increase stupid voting patterns by encouraging dumb people to form cliques. They won't want to appear dumb to their friends as a result of voting for the wrong person, and groupthink is bad for elections. Make sure there's a handy abstain option for those who want to get the point across about lack of choice, and maybe a space to say why, too. Then stick the (anonymous) reasons up in a publicly-viewable space and eh, instant feedback. There is an abstention option. The poll administrator checks off your name when you show up, so someone knows that you voted. You don't have to choose anyone on your ballot. You can either toss it in the garbage on your way out, or draw pictographs derogatory to politicians on non-critical areas of the ballot before feeding it to the fiber-starved voting machine. -- Not your decision to make. Yes. But it's the right decision, and I made it for my daughter. - Bill and Beatrix
