Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming

2003-03-29 Thread barabbus
Sometimes when you're in government you have to do things for the people whether they like it or not. That's what governing is all about, said Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick. Sometimes when you're trying to remain free you have to do things to leaders whether they like it or

S-Tools Stego makes an appearance in Law and Order-SVU

2003-03-29 Thread Tim May
The S-Tools stego package had an appearance in tonight's Law and Order--Special Victims Unit, with a suspected child pornographer hiding images of children in they could be images of anything--sunspots, whatever. Stego...it's mainly used by spies. Even a mention of the etymology of

Practice to Deceive Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan.

2003-03-29 Thread Steve Schear
... the administration sees the invasion as only the first move in a wider effort to reorder the power structure of the entire Middle East. Prior to the war, the president himself never quite said this openly. But hawkish neo-conservatives within his administration gave strong hints. In

Re: Run a remailer, go to jail?

2003-03-29 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:06 PM 03/28/2003 -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: What's unclear to me is who is behind this. Felten thinks it's content providers trying for state-level DMCA; I think it's broadband ISPs who are afraid of 802.11 hotspots. It looked to me like it was the cable TV industry trying to ban

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-03-29 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:50:50AM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Here's an interesting site about the FCF http://www.politicalamazon.com/fcf.html Interesting, but mostly insanely wrong. Written by someone who is a hardcore leftist, it seems, and heavily slanted. I know the folks at FCF, and

Re: Use firewall or a remailer, go to jail?

2003-03-29 Thread Thomas Shaddack
More details are here: http://news.com.com/2100-1028-994667.html Thanks :) The Texas law is problematic in certain often-used scenarios. Our corporate policy for remote access is to use SSL tunnels wherever practical. In Texas, a road warrior with an up-to-specs configured laptop would commit

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-03-29 Thread jet
FCF is in bed with fine folks like Scaife, Family Research Council, the Eagle Forum. Head of the FCF (Paul Weyrich) founded the Heritage Foundation. Lots more interesting bits here: http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipients/free_congress.htm -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-03-29 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 07:25:41PM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:50:50AM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Here's an interesting site about the FCF http://www.politicalamazon.com/fcf.html Interesting, but mostly insanely wrong. Written by someone who is a

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

2003-03-29 Thread jet
At 18:42 -0500 2003/03/29, Declan McCullagh wrote: I went to the Timonium hamfest and computer show today (surprisingly good, even with the rain). On the way back, listened to an NPR Baghdad correspondent report that the mood in the city had subtly changed -- basically that since Saddam didn't

Re: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-03-29 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Status: RO Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:42:41 -0800 Subject: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm scanning all four COWed networks--CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC--for images from the downtown Baghdad market and

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

2003-03-29 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:01:12PM -0800, jet wrote: At 18:42 -0500 2003/03/29, Declan McCullagh wrote: I went to the Timonium hamfest and computer show today (surprisingly good, even with the rain). On the way back, listened to an NPR Baghdad correspondent report that the mood in the city had

Re: Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem

2003-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 27 Mar 2003 at 21:10, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem I suspect that Usenet groups containing tens-o-megabyte files are often blocked by ISPs (and public sources would be overwhelmed). Also, wasn't Usenet plagued by evil

Re: Use firewall or a remailer, go to jail?

2003-03-29 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:49:22PM +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html According to this source, there are state-level law proposals which could More details are here: http://news.com.com/2100-1028-994667.html -Declan

Amerikan Nazis

2003-03-29 Thread Anonymous
Free Congress Foundation's Notable News Now March 28, 2003 The Free Congress Commentary Anti-war Protestors: It's Time YOU Start Imitating Our Troops! By Lisa S. Dean When it comes to supporting freedom of speech, I'm right there fighting with the next guy. But as with anything, there

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-03-29 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:06:27AM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: Tim wrote: To cut to the chase, several of my former friends are calling me a traitor and claiming to have reported me to the FBI for my statements about how the war machine ought to be hacked and undermined. See below. A

Re: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 29 Mar 2003 at 3:11, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: I believe this Project will make more Arabs rally in support of firm Islamic government, reject Western culture and ideals, join radically anti-American militias, and commit more attacks against Americans. Islamic government has been

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

2003-03-29 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:47:51AM -0800, Tim May wrote: (As they may be, but this whole clusterfuck is showing the well-known problems with invading another country with strung-out supply lines and with urban/guerilla battles. We could all write for pages and pages on Heh. I like this

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-03-29 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:36:08PM -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: Are there specific facts on that Web page that you believe to be in error? Did you read the hilarious description of FCF and EFF? I assume not, if you had to ask... I have better things to do with my time than critique this stuff or

Re: Practice to Deceive Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan.

2003-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
-- For a long time, the west has been exporting its most evil ideologies and most disastrous economic policies to the middle east. Saddam is not Islamic fundamentalism, rather, Baathism is a mixture of Communism and Nazism. Even Bin Laden owes more to Heidegger than Mohammed, though he

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-03-29 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 07:29 PM, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: That may well be. Sedition trials and concentration camps wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. The concentration camps are jails this time, where you are held as a material witness.

Re: CDR: Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-03-29 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: That may well be. Sedition trials and concentration camps wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. The concentration camps are jails this time, where you are held as a material witness. The trials will be in a secret court, fed by secret evidence,

Re: Enraptured in Babylon

2003-03-29 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:04:25PM -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: Just saw this banner ad at wired.com (They must be real hard up for revenue). The text of the ad: SHOWDOWN: IRAQ - IS THIS THE SIGN OF END TIMES ? Find out from Tim LaHaye and other end time scholars ! Subscribe to the

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-29 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:51:30PM -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote, quoting Thomas Shaddack: Get the files - images, webpages, whatever you have, package them into suitably-sized files (if the size is too big, split the files to Basic and [...] Yeah, Cool, etc. But, who cares? Right. P2P

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-29 Thread Mike Rosing
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Sarad AV wrote: The images shown at the begining of the war showing iraqi soldiers surrending and walking up with their hands behind their head might have cost US dear again. Iraqi tv then showed a iraqi general with a large rifle in his hand saying to iraqi tv-what do

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-29 Thread John Kelsey
At 01:57 AM 3/28/03 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: ... They are finding it hard to hit armoured vehicles since they are well spread out in distinct patterns.US has told iraq to treat US soldiers as pow's and follow the geneva convention.they showed images of 3 US pow's,one women and 2 men-one of them were

Missile -launchers in iraq

2003-03-29 Thread Sarad AV
hi, on the first or second day of the war-iraqi missiles hit kuwait-4 to 5 of them. After that there is no word of any more strikes in kuwait or else where.What is Iraq waiting for? Regards Sarath. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS'

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-03-29 Thread Eric Cordian
Declan writes: Interesting, but mostly insanely wrong. Written by someone who is a hardcore leftist, it seems, and heavily slanted. I know the folks at FCF, and they're not mass murderers, racists, xenophobes, or guilty of the other allegations the author makes. Hmmm. I read through the

Re: CDR: Re: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-03-29 Thread Eric Cordian
James A. Donald wrote: Baathism is not Islamic government, though Saddam, Bush, and Bin Laden are all trying to obscure the fact -- Baathism is a western ideology -- a mixture of communism and Nazism. It's interesting that the US is waging war against one of the most secular nations in the

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-29 Thread Sarad AV
helo, --- John Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be fair about this. We own the skies above Baghdad, bit too much, but it's not like we're targeting civilian areas. If we were, the images from Baghdad would be very different; not just one market with a bomb crater, and one hospital

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-29 Thread John Kelsey
At 02:06 AM 3/28/03 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: hi, That cannot possibly even happen-by mistake.Al-jazeera is qatar based.They might hit a chinese embassy but not AL-Jazeera. I believe we hit the Al Jazeera office in Afghanistan pretty early in our bombing campaign there. (I read an archived BBC