Stand-Alone and Laptop Computer Evidence
d. Check for outside connectivity (e.g., telephone modem, cable,
ISDN, DSL). If a telephone connection is present, attempt to
identify the telephone number.
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/187736.pdf
--
Better bombing through chemistry.
-John Pike,
Stand-Alone and Laptop Computer Evidence
d. Check for outside connectivity (e.g., telephone modem, cable,
ISDN, DSL). If a telephone connection is present, attempt to
identify the telephone number.
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/187736.pdf
--
Better bombing through chemistry.
-John Pike,
MOSCOW (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell made no progress in
discussions with his Russian counterpart in overcoming Moscow's
unexplained refusal to grant visas to Peace Corps volunteers, a U.S.
Embassy official said Tuesday.
U.S. officials are negotiating with the Foreign Ministry and the
In the most recent _Science_ some biologists gripe that the scientists
who synthesized infectious
poliovirus from its description were not doing anything novel, just a
prank. Any biologist
would have known that, since you could concatenate nucleotide strings,
and since polio needs nothing
In the most recent _Science_ some biologists gripe that the scientists
who synthesized infectious
poliovirus from its description were not doing anything novel, just a
prank. Any biologist
would have known that, since you could concatenate nucleotide strings,
and since polio needs nothing
SACRAMENTO -- Dismayed by new disclosures of the use of steroids in
Major League Baseball, a state senator wants to force most professional
sports teams to test athletes for performance enhancing drugs if they
play
games in California.
State Sen. Don Perata (D-Alameda) said the Legislature must
Looks like someone else is selling a trojan for paranoid monogamists:
http://www.cheating-spouse-check.com/netobserve.htm
With 128-bit encryption, even... yawn
Looks like someone else is selling a trojan for paranoid monogamists:
http://www.cheating-spouse-check.com/netobserve.htm
With 128-bit encryption, even... yawn
What does this law say about computer-generated images of farm animals?
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Taking aim at animal rights activists and
undercover reporters, the Missouri House has passed a measure that
would
make it a crime to take pictures of animals in barns without an
owner's
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-051602abortion_wr.story
Court: Abortion Activists Created 'True Threat'
By DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court reversed
course
At MIT, they can put words in our mouths
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/135/metro/At_MIT_they_can_put_words_in_our_mouths+.shtml
By Gareth Cook, Globe Staff, 5/15/2002
AMBRIDGE - Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
have created the first realistic videos of
TCM Wrote:
The second is my favorite, by far. Robinson captures the essence of
OC's
crowds, the surfers, the burbclaves (years before Stephenson's Snow
Crash, _also_ set in California!).
Hmm. My OC burbclave just installed a laser-barcode scanner to admit
cars.
(The barcodes are discrete
TCM Wrote:
The second is my favorite, by far. Robinson captures the essence of
OC's
crowds, the surfers, the burbclaves (years before Stephenson's Snow
Crash, _also_ set in California!).
Hmm. My OC burbclave just installed a laser-barcode scanner to admit
cars.
(The barcodes are discrete
Folks around Trabuco Canyon insist they're not
rebellious by nature. It's just that the stakes are
high
in their fight against a neighbor who bulldozed four
acres of oaks and coastal sage scrub without state
and federal
No, we have AC because AC works better than DC in home wiring
situations.
Hmmm. I always thought the reason we went with AC was because at
the
time, DC power couldn't cut it.
Hard to believe one has to explain this, but:
You can send electricity far without losing much to resistive
This is precisely why some of us distrust the USG's involvement in any
naming scheme. They
intend to decide acceptable content and applications, and to require
full true-name IDs (DNA too?) on
operators.
Oppressive regimes always license the printing presses and xerox
machines.
Will they also
No, we have AC because AC works better than DC in home wiring
situations.
Hmmm. I always thought the reason we went with AC was because at
the
time, DC power couldn't cut it.
Hard to believe one has to explain this, but:
You can send electricity far without losing much to resistive
This is precisely why some of us distrust the USG's involvement in any
naming scheme. They
intend to decide acceptable content and applications, and to require
full true-name IDs (DNA too?) on
operators.
Oppressive regimes always license the printing presses and xerox
machines.
Will they also
[Ed: will these building-owners sue Steve Mann when he wears his goggles
which eliminate
advertising? ]
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAJW671XZC.html
NEW YORK (AP) - The owners of several Times Square buildings have filed
a lawsuit against the makers of the upcoming Spider-Man movie for
Quoth Bill:
At 06:53 PM 04/10/2002 -0700, and a number of other times, Tim May
wrote:
--Tim May
Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat.
--David
Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11
I've got three cats, and one of them very definitely is the alpha cat.
You mean
[Ed: will these building-owners sue Steve Mann when he wears his goggles
which eliminate
advertising? ]
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAJW671XZC.html
NEW YORK (AP) - The owners of several Times Square buildings have filed
a lawsuit against the makers of the upcoming Spider-Man movie for
[Unfortunate that a paper llike the Times would confusing hacking and
simple sabotage by a fired
sysop. Since lost time is part of the damages, why isn't spam
illegal?]
Hacker Gets 16 Months for Crashing Firm's Computers
[*]
By JEAN GUCCIONE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A disgruntled former employee
I don't want to live in a country
where I can be searched without grounds just because someone
suddenly decides it's OK.
The plan has divided this remote ranching town of 2,900 residents
between those who think suspicionless testing is a small price to pay
and those who decry it as a government
Oh, and I can't believe I almost forgot--I'm sure you'll be
tickled pink to learn that ever having had anything to do with
you can be the kiss of death as far as getting clearance is
concerned. From the adjudication guidelines:
http://www.dss.mil/training/adr/adjguid/adjguidF.htm
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAS2NLE1ZC.html
Listrelev: accountability, email vs. paper, disappearing ink
News Organizations Sue Utah Governor for Deleting His E-Mail, Contending
It Is Public Record
The Associated Press
http://latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-032002scotus.story
Drug Tests at Schools Argued at High Court
Choice excerpts:
If there's a [drug] problem of a serious sort,
why can't they do this? Breyer asked a lawyer
for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Because of the 4th Amendment and its
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48341,00.html
The Arabic Translation of Hitler's anti-Semitic manifesto Mein
Kampf, which has been a bestseller in the Palestinian
territories for
some time, has begun to turn up in bookshops in London
where they
U.S. Deceit at Issue Before Supreme Court
Law: The plaintiff says officials are liable for alleged lies about her
husband's plight before he
died in Guatemala.
http://latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-20108mar19.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation%2Dmanual
By DAVID G. SAVAGE, TIMES
The Roman Catholic Taliban writes:
The ideology of radical libertarianism is both mistaken and harmful
not
least, to legitimate free expression in the service of truth
Tell Galileo Galilei about free expression of truth, bub
The error lies in exalting freedom to such an extent that it
The infiltration begins:
Listening device discovered in the QC office
by Rebecca Wolf, QC Managing Editor
http://web.whittier.edu/qc/bug.htm
A maintenance worker discovered an electronic eavesdropping device
inside an electrical outlet behind a sofa in the
Quaker Campus (QC) newspaper office
Quoth John Young:
Did I believe the US had enemies
I said yes Did I believe it was my responsibility to protect
the nation I said maybe
As John has said, many of the enemies of the US claim to legitimately
represent it
Many are found along the Potomac
And what John is doing *is* protecting
What's with these fascist NYC censor types? First EBay, now CBS Some
N'Yorkahs just need
killing
---
http://storynewsyahoocom/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20020228/tv_nm/documentary_1
CBS urged not to show graphic footage in
9/11 film
Wed Feb 27, 8:54 PM ET
Georgia attacks violent-game sales
Mon Feb 18, 1:43 PM ET
By Trey Walker, ZDNet News
Four lawmakers in Georgia submitted a bill yesterday that
would make it a criminal offense
to sell or furnish violent interactive video games to
minors.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/news/86256B51006BC7AB86256B6C0074E61C?OpenDocumenthighlight=2%2Cfarmers%2Cfbi?opendocumentheadline=FBI+agents+tells+Missouri+farmers+to+keep+alert+for+terrorism
FBI agents tells Missouri farmers to keep alert for terrorism
By Tim Higgins
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=676u=/usatoday/20020226/ts_usatoday/3892978
Suppose, he wrote, Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) loaded a
biological weapon into a container
and shipped it through foreign ports to the USA. The container,
unnoticed in the day-to-day bustle of
N.Y. Times hack exposes sensitive data
Wed Feb 27, 3:02 PM ET
Margaret Kane CNET News.com
The New York Times Co. on Wednesday confirmed that the
internal network of its flagship
newspaper was hit by a security breach.
Cipher mixer with random number generator
Abstract
An encryption device has a random number generator whose output is
combined by exclusive-or with plaintext input which has been encrypted
by a first block cipher. The combined exclusive-or
The pro-abortion anti-choice folks are privately acting like the Feds
and WTO protesters,
or Feds and militias, or Feds and cypherpunks:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26611
Abortion-rights group trains activists to 'investigate' CPCs
By Allyson
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=73u=/zd/20020226/tc_zd/5103755
Voyeurdorm sees major court win
Tue Feb 26, 2:43 PM ET
By Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet News
The U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) said Monday it
will not hear a case involving an
Georgia attacks violent-game sales
Mon Feb 18, 1:43 PM ET
By Trey Walker, ZDNet News
Four lawmakers in Georgia submitted a bill yesterday that
would make it a criminal offense
to sell or furnish violent interactive video games to
minors.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/news/86256B51006BC7AB86256B6C0074E61C?OpenDocumenthighlight=2%2Cfarmers%2Cfbi?opendocumentheadline=FBI+agents+tells+Missouri+farmers+to+keep+alert+for+terrorism
FBI agents tells Missouri farmers to keep alert for terrorism
By Tim Higgins
Executive Summary
J.A.I.L. is a proposed amendment to the California Constitution as a
check against judicial misconduct and abuse of power.
The initiative creates three statewide Special Grand Juries in
California for the sole purpose of investigating complaints against
judges.
The Special
Bin Laden T-shirt seller in terror rap
http://www.expatica.com/france.asp?pad=278,313,item_id=19472
PARIS, Feb 8 (AFP) - A 25 year-old Frenchman who was caught trying
to import 40 Osama Bin Laden T-shirts via Paris's Charles-De-Gaulle
airport could face terrorism-related charges, police said
http://www.ribbands.co.uk/prdpages/C4.htm -nice pix of
a guy pulling C4 taffy
A high quality, very high velocity military plastic explosive.
Our C4 is supplied in bulk drums, in a slightly powdery form. Upon
manipulation the material immediately consolidates into a rubbery
fully
One report currently being investigated by U.S.
intelligence officials came from Pakistani Inter-Service
Intelligence sources who had conducted an interrogation of
a terrorist suspect in early November. Under
coercion, the suspect said that
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20122001-09-5310r
One report currently being investigated by U.S.
intelligence officials came from Pakistani Inter-Service
Intelligence sources who had conducted an interrogation of
a terrorist suspect in early November.
All your MicrosoftOSes are belong to us
and we don't have to do squat.
WASHINGTON Microsoft's newest version of Windows, billed as the most
secure ever, contains several serious flaws
that allow hackers to steal or destroy a victim's data files across the
Internet or implant rogue computer
A new ABCNEWS translation of the Osama bin Laden videotape released last
week reveals information that may be
embarrassing to Saudi Arabia, a very important U.S. ally. Bin Laden Hunt
Strains U.S-Saudi Relations Excerpts of
the Bin Laden Video Weigh In Poll: Americans Believe Toughest
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/913687.html
Published Dec 21 2001
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When a Twin Cities flight instructor phoned the
FBI last August to alert the agency that a terrorist might be taking
lessons to
fly a jumbo jet, he did it in a dramatic way:
Do you realize how
[Found on Morpheus as WritingSubpeonas.pdf,
not found on cryptome's search, so here it is]
How to Write Subpoenas
Kathy Hines, Manager - Security Services
Qwest Law Enforcement Internet Security Seminar
Qwest Internet Solutions
Minneapolis, MN
October 19, 2000
Agenda
Examples of subpoena
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011219/ts/attacks_professor_1.html
Wednesday December 19 12:19 PM ET
South Fla. Professor May Be Fired
By VICKIE CHACHERE, Associated Press Writer
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - University of South Florida's trustees agreed
Wednesday a
http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html
December 17, 2001
FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data
A ROTTEN.COM EXCLUSIVE
The FBI is asking for access to a massive database that contains
the private communications and passwords of the victims of the
Badtrans Internet worm.
[reformatted for legibility]
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/usinfo/press/1207detain.htm
Muslim behind bars, despite a judge's order
A Turkish Muslim from White Plains, N.Y., held in a New Jersey jail for
more than two weeks, remains behind bars, despite a judge's order that
he be released.
Atila
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
U.S.-led forces have warned
shippers to cooperate with
maritime searches for al Qaeda fighters fleeing Afghanistan
(news - web sites) by sea or risk being sunk, defense
officials said on Friday.
The U.S. Fifth Fleet and coalition forces are monitoring
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/07/text/national12.html
Shock as columnist investigated for un-American activity
Phillip Adams, defender of the rights of man, is in an unexpected spot
of bother, Pilita Clark reports.
It sounds too strange to be true.
Warren Beeby, the group editorial
Delta for Kicking Him off Flight Because He Was Carrying the Drug
The Associated Press
Published: Dec 6, 2001
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A man who legally uses marijuana for
medicinal purposes is suing Delta Air Lines for kicking him off a
[ If I were Bill G. I'd double the price of an OS sold to one of these
States.
Since I'm not, but still resent these States, I hope they get all the
Windows OS
they deserve. ]
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011205/tc/microsoft_settlement_dc_1.html
States May Ask for Unbundled
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20011205/tc/national_computer-security_site_attacked_1.html
National computer-security site attacked
By Robert Lemos CNET News.com
The Computer Emergency Response Team's Coordination Center, an
important
national clearinghouse for
F.B.I. officials said foreigners normally did not have privacy rights
unless they have achieved permanent resident status.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20011206/ts/justice_dept_bars_use_of_gun_checks_in_terror_inquiry_1.html
``They are a chilling daily chronicle of the hatred of
Americans by fanatics, who seek to .. corrupt education..
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011206/pl/ashcroft_senate_12.html
Has the entire Cabinet gotten into JFK's cache of IV amphetamine?
Is the military trying out BZ on Seventh Day
Integrated Multicast for Ad-Hoc Networks
The IMAHN project is investigating multicast protocols in ad-hoc
networks.
Ad-hoc networks are collections of mobile nodes communicating using
wireless media, without any fixed infrastructure.
Conventional routing is inadequate in these scenarios, as the
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nyt/20011201/ts/ashcroft_seeking_to_free_f_b_i_to_spy_on_groups_1.html
Saturday December 01 09:01 AM EST
Ashcroft Seeking to Free F.B.I. to Spy on Groups
By DAVID JOHNSTON and DON VAN NATTA Jr. The New York Times
Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering a
excerpt from http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/national/03POWD.html
The preliminary analysis of the powder
shows that it has the same extraordinarily high concentration of deadly
spores as the
anthrax produced in the American weapons program. While it is still
possible that the
anthrax could
We hereby call for publication of the list of (possibly illegal)
questions
that the FBI wants local cops to ask the swarthies...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-113001port.story
Now Portland Comes In for Questioning
Probe: Oregon city and its police chief catch flak for
What's next, a voluntary arab visitor DNA database?
from http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/29/national/29DEAR.html
The
Detroit Free Press reported on an Immigration and
Naturalization Service memorandum that said those who
were interviewed could be held without bond if
investigators developed an
poorly excerpted from
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-95027nov29.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcalifornia
On
Wednesday,
San Francisco
law
enforcement
officials
agreed. Police
arrested
Michael
Petrelis and
ACT UP San
Francisco
spokesman
David
Pasquarelli on charges of criminal
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/11/25/MN232750.DTL
Health bill endangers civil rights
The administration wants all 50 states to
adopt a law allowing public health
authorities to take over hospitals,
I think people have not quite gotten their hands around the
speed at which information can be disseminated online.
-Monica Lewinsky, LATimes 9 may 01
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-110701private.story
November 7, 2001
Web Mishap: Kids' Psychological
Anonymity Lifted, Fewer Companies Registering in the Bahamas
By Samantha JosephAssociated Press Writer
Published: Nov 1, 2001
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - The number of international companies registering
in the Bahamas dropped steeply following tightened
http://latimes.com/business/la-86726nov01.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness%2Dmanual
Sony Dogs Aibo Enthusiast's Site
Courts: The company uses a controversial law to stop
owners from altering the robotic pet. Some consumers balk.
By DAVE WILSON and ALEX
PHAM, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Sony
DCF Quoth:
The name came into use when Osama used his cash to bankroll a series
of
bases in Pakistan to assist fighters on their way Afghanistan to fight
the
Commies. He used the opportunity to collect a rather valuable direct
marketing list of somme 40,000 names and addresses of dedicated
Tuesday October 30 7:21 PM ET
NY Times Computers Shut Down by Apparent Attack
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet connections at the New York Times Co
(NYSE:NYT - news) were interrupted for
several hours on Tuesday afternoon after the paper's computers were
flooded with bogus information in an
Quoth John Young:
Sure. Don't go for the hard-headed containment structure,
knock out the soft-shelled control facility which regulates
cooling pumps. The reactor will do the rest just as effectively
as planes weakened the towers so they would self-destruct.
...
Nuclear power plants are likely a
Napster Wants License to License
By Michael Stroud
2:00 a.m. Oct. 30, 2001 PST
LOS ANGELES -- Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers says the
government should consider
compulsory standards requiring music labels to license music
at a fair price if they
The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, confirmed reports of such a
move yesterday by telling CNN that the US would be acting in
self-defence in
carrying out such missions.
acting in self-defence sounds better in Hebrew...
A short, sharp shock, they'll never do it agin'
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAA97MDETC.html
Scotland Yard Gets More Time to Questions Terrorism Suspect
The Associated Press
Published: Oct 29, 2001
LONDON (AP) -
This link http://www.cursor.org/aljazeera.htm
has stories about censorship satellites and a link to
a site that translates Al-Jazeera's site.
(That link seems slow but the site is up.)
[Yes ABC is a nominally private entity (modulo their govt license
and use of spectrum) but note that she was speaking on her own
time.]
Friday October 26 02:16 AM EDT
By Andrew Grossman
NEW YORK (The Hollywood Reporter) --- ABC anchorwoman Carole Simpson on
Thursday said she regretted some
of
Dozens of government agencies have rushed to pull sensitive
information off their websites and Google has backed their efforts by
clearing the cache of shuttered websites from its search engines, a
Google spokeswoman said.
Suppression Stifles Some Sites
Declan writes:
I happened to hear from Lee Caplin of Starium today. ...
Also, Lee says Starium has filed for patents on a desk phone, answering
machine and conference phone.
One wonders what they have that is patentable. Given that we've been
using
laptops with PGPfone/Nautilus/SpeakFreely for
Wednesday October 24 2:24 PM ET
Pakistani Held in Attack Probe Dies in U.S. Jail
NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - A Pakistani arrested on immigration charges in
the U.S. probe of last month's suicide plane
attacks has been found dead in his jail cell in New Jersey, but the
cause of death is not yet
And why are NYC prison^H^H^H^H^H^Hinhabitants
still taking subways?
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309068495/html/223.html#pagetop
First Israel, now Vietnam. Only Vietnam wants the US to
charge US citizens with terroristm against Vietnam.
Curiouser and curiouser.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-102101viet.story
Excerpts:
As the United States presses its war against terrorism,
Vietnam is demanding that
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011019/aponline151310_000.htm
French Teen Leads Bin Laden Cheer
The Associated Press
Friday, Oct. 19, 2001; 3:13 p.m. EDT
STRASBOURG, France A French teen-ager was placed
under investigation after he allegedly organized a
demonstration at his
Consider these two reports: Bozo Ridge downplaying the weaponization
of the spores, contradicted by another source; and the Feebs
questioning NJ-mailbox-locals about knowing chemists.
Makes one think the Quality is Very High and Ridge is lying.
We have always been at war with Oceania bin Laden.
How to be a sensitive journalist (US style)
Crying
If the interviewee cries, this is not
necessarily
a bad or harmful thing. Carry paper tissues
at
all times, and offer them as a caring
gesture.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/page2.htm
Anonymous Letters
The Anonymous Letter File (ALF) is
an
image-oriented database housed in
the
Questioned Documents Unit of the
FBI
Note that the offending Arab TV station has a tendency to run
interviews with analysts who argued U.S. foreign
policy had brought about the recent attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
As if there were another reason. Oh sorry, its about democracy,
right.
US to Qatar: rein in
Must've never heard of caching..
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-100301safe.story
Several federal agencies have removed sensitive documents and reports
from their Internet sites following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
saying they want to keep the information out of the wrong
Looks like the fundamentalists won...
http://www.indystar.com/data/wire/out/1002ap_l91ia7g109.html
Man arrested in burning of U.S. flag
Associated Press
Last updated 04:40 PM, EST, Tuesday, October 02, 2001
inscmsfonsrctdrccw
[Reformatted for legibility. Please take the few moments required to
present documents in a readable manner. KMSelf]
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/page2.htm
Anonymous Letters
The Anonymous Letter File (ALF) is an image-oriented database housed
in the Questioned Documents Unit of the FBI
[Reformatted for legibility. Please take the few moments required to
present materials in a readable format. KMSelf]
Looks like the fundamentalists won...
http://www.indystar.com/data/wire/out/1002ap_l91ia7g109.html
Man arrested in burning of U.S. flag
Associated Press
Last updated
http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2001/10/01/arlnews/fw010408-1001-XB001-speeders.htm
ARLINGTON - Alice Pelfrey has taken aim at speeders in her
neighborhood, and her efforts have really slowed them down.
Armed with a police radar gun and a clipboard, Pelfrey and other Plaza
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