Did AMD put the fear of death in INTEL?

[Matthew X]

http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/19/1029114067050.html
Could explain the P4 hypeburgers.
PC owners sue Intel, OEMs over P4 claims
August 19 2002
Intel, Gateway and Hewlett-Packard face a class action lawsuit filed 
against them by a group of computer owners who allege the companies misled 
them into believing the Pentium 4 is a superior processor to the Pentium 
III and the AMD Athlon.
A report in PC World says the complaint was filed in the third judicial 
circuit in Madison County, Illinois. A ruling has yet to be made on whether 
the case comes under state or federal jurisdiction. PCWorld said it had 
received a copy of the complaint from an anonymous source.
The complaint claims that the public were deceived by the marketing of the 
P4 and alleges that there is no benefit to consumers who choose the P4 over 
the PIII. It also alleges that the P4 is slower and less powerful than the 
PIII or the AMD Athlon.

Cracking the hackers' code

[Matthew X]

http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/20/1029114072039.html
By Suelette Dreyfus
August 20 2002
Next
If your organisation suffered a computer crime in the past few years and 
reported it to AusCERT, it was probably an attack from outside your walls. 
Nearly 90 per cent of Australian organisations that reported an incident 
were attacked externally, according to the 2002 Australian Computer Crime 
and Security Survey. This is the first time the threat of being attacked 
from outside surpassed the likelihood of an assault from inside.
It might be increasingly difficult to keep out external hackers but there 
are signs IT managers are finding it easier to win support within companies 
for improving security. Management consulting firm McKinsey & Co recently 
studied security best practices at Fortune 500 companies. About 30 of these 
companies, including AOL Time Warner, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft and Visa 
International, had appointed a chief security officer or other senior 
executive to oversee information security. In some cases, this executive 
had the power to stop the launch of new products or systems, and answered 
only to the chief executive.
The recent AusCERT study stated that 70 per cent of Australian 
organisations surveyed had increased spending on information security in 
the past year.
All of this is good news for IT managers. Most attempted attacks come via 
script kiddies, according to Neal Wise, senior security consultant for 
eSec, a Melbourne-based security technology company. Keeping software up to 
date should provide a good first-line defence but he also recommends 
putting pressure on vendors to release security patches in a timely 
fashion. "You can vote with your wallet," he says.
Yet Grant Bayley, organiser of Sydney's 2600 group, a gathering of security 
enthusiasts, says that while the number of hackers has increased, the 
percentage of highly skilled hackers has stayed the same, suggesting their 
total numbers are up as well. "These are the people who are really good at 
writing exploits - original and very obscure exploits. And people don't 
write exploits just to have them sit there and look pretty."
More sophisticated hackers may be more difficult to defend against, in part 
because their motivations may be complex. A small subset of these hackers 
obsess about a problem day after day, ignoring the rest of their lives. If 
you are running a network or a system, understanding what drives people to 
break in will help you to defend your organisation.
Meeting "Higgs", formerly one of the most skilled illegal hackers of the 
Australian computer underground, can be a high-stress experience; Higgs 
fidgets with other people's things until they break.
He doesn't mean to break them, he just pulls and prods at them incessantly 
while he bounces his knee up and down and talks. When the item cracks or 
snaps, he looks utterly surprised, as though he had no idea the item was in 
his hand. He sheepishly slips the broken pieces into his pocket, adding to 
his sins by running off with the evidence.
He sometimes has one-way conversations with people, meaning he talks and 
they try to get a word in edgewise. He is always right, and he is only 
interested in "the truth", no matter how bare and brutal. This inflexible, 
seemingly arrogant attitude frequently gets him into trouble, in part 
because he is usually right. Or because when he's wrong, he's so wildly off 
the mark, it's funny. He's also anti-social, partly due to shyness, but 
also because most people bore him. He says they don't feed him information 
fast enough. "I can't do that chit-chat stuff," he says.
Like a number of other technically elite hackers, Higgs shows 
characteristics similar to those shown by people with Asperger syndrome. 
This neurobiological disorder, which may resemble mild autism, has often 
been misdiagnosed in the past. The condition only made it into the 
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1994.
Like elite-end hackers, many "aspies" are exceptionally skilled in a 
specialised area. A 2001 University of Cambridge study into the syndrome 
showed a higher incidence of AS/High-Functioning Autism, which seem to be 
related, among scientists and mathematicians. Tests of 840 students showed 
"that mathematicians scored higher than engineers, physical and computer 
sciences, who scored higher than medicine and biology". The condition is 
also more common among males and may have a genetic component.
There does not appear to be any in-depth research linking illegal hacking 
and Asperger syndrome. However, one of the world's leading AS experts, 
Australian clinical psychologist Tony Attwood, believes some hackers may 
share characteristics with "Aspies", as they refer to themselves.
"The link between AS and computers is well known. Computers were designed 
by - and for - people with AS," Attwood, based in Queensland, says. "Those 
with AS seem to know the language of computers better than social or 

Mrs Petrov - Set lasers to jab.

[Matthew X]

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4931950%255E2862,00.html
Also in this rag,news that Mrs Petrov may have been more valuable than her 
husband as she was a cipher clerk with access to VENONA.

Jabs by laser free of pain
By JEN KELLY, medical reporter
20aug02
A MELBOURNE firm has won worldwide patents for a laser device that could 
end the need for painful injections.
The tiny pain-free laser allows drugs to seep through the skin into the 
body in minutes without a needle. It means childhood vaccines now injected 
could be given painlessly with an adhesive strip similar to a nicotine 
patch in a few years.
Biotech company Norwood Abbey believes its device will revolutionise drug 
delivery worldwide.
The hand-held laser will initially be used to administer anaesthetics, but 
the company hopes to use it for vaccines and painkillers next. The laser 
removes the top layer of skin so any drug applied immediately afterwards by 
cream or patch penetrates the skin swiftly.
Norwood Abbey marketing director Bernie Romanin said the US drug agency was 
expected to approve the laser's use with a specific anaesthetic by the end 
of the year.
Applying anaesthetic to the skin usually takes an hour to work but after 
using the new laser then applying the anaesthetic cream, the skin is numb 
within five minutes.

The Taking of a reactor the Japanese embassy and Parliament.123.

[Matthew X]

Trio climbs parliament flagpole
20aug02
THREE Greenpeace protesters have climbed the Parliament House flagpole to 
protest against government policy on climate change.
The protesters had reached the halfway point of the flagpole using 
industrial and rock-climbing climbing equipment, with four support crew at 
the base of the pole, by 11am (AEST).
"It's quite a slow process because as you can imagine they are having to be 
very careful and it's quite a difficult climb," Greenpeace spokesman Shane 
Rattenbury said.
"So at this stage it might take them a bit longer to actually climb the 
flagpole."
Security staff were nearby, talking to the support crew, but were unable to 
stop them, with the climbers in an inaccessible position.
The protesters planned to unfurl a banner voicing concern about government 
climate change policy.
"The reason Greenpeace is doing this today is to protest against the Howard 
government's failure on climate change," Mr Rattenbury said.
"The rejection by the Howard Government of the Kyoto Protocol is a backward 
step for Australia; it's ignoring Australia's responsibilities to act on 
climate change.
"Opinion polling has shown that 80 per cent of Australians support 
ratification of Kyoto."
The protest comes just days ahead of the United Nations-sponsored World 
Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa, where the Government 
will face world pressure to ratify the protocol to combat climate change. 

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Proffr approves the Stuckist internet.

[Matthew X]

Its just routing around more damage isn't it?
The Stuckist Net - what is your post-Palladium future?
By Andrew Orlowski in London
Posted: 19/08/2002 at 18:34 GMT
"Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!" - Tracey 
Emin [to Billy Childish].

The copyright holders who dominate the entertainment oligopolies in the 
United States could risk ceding the nation's technological lead, once and 
forever.

How so?

Well, we now see that the Pigopolists intend to restrict the open protocols 
of the Internet. If there was any doubt, it should finally have been 
dispelled on Friday, as Thomas C Greene reported in Media giants demand 
ISPs block Web sites.

We heard it coming two years ago when a Sony executive let on rather more 
than he should have, promising to block the packets:-

"We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will 
firewall Napster at source - we will block it at your cable company, we 
will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [ISP]. We 
will firewall it at your PC," he said.


Three months later we exposed the first attempt to copy control OpenPC 
hardware - CPRM -
plans which now seem quite tender now, following the proposed Hollings Act 
and Microsoft's Palladium.

Sony's plans are succeeding splendidly.

Explaining his position on a European TCPA last week, Bill Thompson said 
he'd arrived at the conclusion that a Fritz-chipped, lock-down Palladium 
was inevitable, as it had Microsoft and Intel on board as willing 
executioners.

I think he's being optimistic. I can envisage multiple TCPAs: the 
Disney/Wintel version being the first. Quite certainly, a Chinese TCPA will 
follow, when they discover how useful it is to monitor individual computer 
users so precisely. TCPAs might not fall across continental boundaries, 
either.

So although Bill's argument was couched as a breakaway, it's really the US 
computer industry that's making the first break. His is the first European 
reaction. The computer industry, in an alliance with the entertainment 
pigopolists is simply filling a vacuum that's been left by people unwilling 
to engage on a political level. They'd rather be coding, or warchalking, 
or, heck, doing anything except face the imminent lock-down.

(How many articles about warchalking have you read in the last month, 
compared to articles supporting the real legislation on offer to limit 
Pigopolist power? Priorities, please ladies and gentlemen.)

Now, I actually side with the constitutionalists here - today's DMCA and 
the courts may one day strike down potential Fritz bills. But by the time 
that happens, the freedom of changing your graphics card or upgrading your 
CPU will be a distant memory.

The US PC industry is attempting to lock down the PC that's been an open 
platform ever since Compaq reverse engineered the IBM PC BIOS, and the 
fledgling cloners turned their noses at Big Blue's MCA bus. And the 
Internet protocols have, we've always been open since the mid-1970s. Many 
people at Intel don't like it - Andy Grove has spoken out against it quite 
eloquently - but if it means losing Intel's dominant position in the United 
States, or the huge Chinese market of the future, then Intel will Fritz 
it's chips for anyone who asks.

But with the Internet's key routers, and top level domain name registry 
files physically hosted in the United States, with phasers set to stun, 
what are the rest of us - stuck with our antiquated regard for open 
protocols, open source, open PC hardware - to do?


How the Stuckist Internet?
We'll call ourselves Stuckists. We like open hardware, and we like routers 
that don't care about the packets that run through them. We'd like to be 
stuck there. Where will we be in a world of Multiple TCPAs?

Well, the first obstacle will be hardware. There's a ready alternative in 
Linux, which would thrive in such conditions, but Stuckists will need 
processors. They could clone x86, or license a non-Intel instruction set 
such as ARM cheaply, or SPARC for no cost at all. That's the easy part. 
Manufacturing requires huge capital investment

And who delivers the bandwidth? Well, if your needs are local, use your 
Stuckist PC primarily for communication and not for Hollywood-generated 
content, it's not going to be a problem.

While replacing the TLDs with alternative root systems simply requires 
political consensus Dragging domain names into the issue might seem odd - 
but it's an instrument of control.

Now this might look like a formidable set of obstacles, until your consider 
two countries that would welcome this as an opportunity: the world's 
biggest democracy, and the world's most populous country. Both have far 
more to gain from fuelling a Stuckist Internet than they might by following 
the Disney/Palladium path.

Lamenting the lack of innovation in US manufacturing (it's a Western issue) 
John C Dvorak wrote: "Over the years we've always been told that the 
American edge was our inventiven

Data Security class programming project

[Jason Holt]

I'm working on designing the programming projects for a data security class.  
What do you think of this one?

I love its intrinsic irony, but can we actually get away with requiring it for
a university class?  I mean, Elcomsoft really is in court for this.  My
University is unfortunately not the type of organization to stand at the
forefront and protect our civil rights.

-J

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DRM Lab
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Options
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* Make the lab open-ended - they get to pick what to break and how, as long as
they don't use a pre-packaged tool.  DVDs, CDs, .WMA, etc.

Objective
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To demonstrate the fundamental futility of current attempts to prevent
unauthorized copying of published works.

Requirements

_Here_ you can find a copy of Dmitry Sklyarov's Defcon slides in Adobe's eBook
format.  They were created with the eBookPro compiler, advertised as "the only
software in the universe that makes your information virtually 100%
burglarproof!".

Extract all text from the slides using the method of your choice and turn in
the resulting text file.  It needs no special formatting.

Moral Cowardice in OZ.

[Matthew X]

AUSTRALIA'S MORAL COWARDICE


The Australian government wants to attack Iraq preemptively because the 
Iraqis won’t allow the UN to inspect their weapons facilities. Meanwhile, 
the government opposes the UN protocol on torture because it doesn’t want 
the UN to inspect its prison facilities.

Neither position has much to do with Australian self-interests. It is 
doubtful that there is torture being carried out in Australian prisons, and 
it is impossible to see what threat Saddam, the countries biggest buyer of 
its wheat, poses to Australian society. These are just examples of a 
foreign policy increasingly dictated by foreign directives. The 
cancellation of Iraqi wheat sales and the US ambassadors chilling warning 
that Australia is now, like America, a likely terrorist target and the 
famously relaxed Australian people need to stop being so relaxed are 
examples of the high price that is now being paid for such policies.

All the time, the Howard government has characterized its position as 
standing with the world against terror. When opposition leader Simon Crean 
questioned foreign minister Alexander Downer’s bellicose rhetoric on Iraq, 
the government accused him of “taking the Iraqi side”. You are either with 
America, or you are against Australia is the message.

The Howard government’s dichotomous view of the world is based on one of 
the most enduring myths of the last fifty years: the idea that America 
enjoys a position of leadership over some vacuous “free world” – to which 
Australia proudly belongs.

If America is the leader of the free world, then it is increasingly unclear 
who its followers are. In recent months, the Americans have unilaterally 
acted against the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Comprehensive Test Ban 
Treaty, Kyoto Protocol, Biological Weapons and Toxic Weapons Convention and 
tried to sabotage the establishment of the International Court. Their 
actions have drawn condemnation and scorn from the “free world”.

The fallacy of American leadership is best demonstrated in the United 
Nations. Whenever it has benefited American interest, regardless how 
questionable, America has aggressively opposed the very same “free world” 
it claims to be leading.

America is, after all, the only country having the dubious distinction of 
refusing to vote to ratify the Rights of the Child in December 1987. In the 
same month, America stood with Israel in voting against 153 other 
UN-members in opposing any effort to define terrorism and to convene a 
conference to study its causes and seek solutions.

Even the right of nations to develop is something that America took 
exception to. In 1986, she voted against 146 other countries in opposing 
such a right. A few years later, US ambassador Morris Abram termed such an 
idea, “little more than an empty vessel into which vague hopes and inchoate 
expectations can be poured” and no less than a “dangerous incitement”. The 
fact that this declaration was a subset of the Universal Declaration of 
Human Rights was deemed irrelevant.

On December 13, 1985, America again voted alone against 134 countries in 
opposing the declaration of the indivisibility and interdependence of 
economic, social, cultural, civil, and political rights.

Whilst the “free world” was opposing apartheid in South Africa, America was 
voting alone against UN efforts to sanction the South African government. 
Between 1978 and 1987 there were over 10 such instances.

In November, 1981, America voted alone against what most of the world 
considers to be the definition of democracy; America opposed 126 other 
states in rejecting the right of every society to choose its own economic 
and social system in accord with the will of its people.

In 1979, the United States and Israel voted together to oppose the UN 
convening a conference on the rights of women. After losing the vote, they 
would opt for a second-best solution and later vote against the inclusion 
of Palestinian women at the conference.

In 1982 and 1983, the US was alone in voting against a declaration that 
education, work, health care, proper nourishment and national development 
are human rights. Thirteen years later in 1996, the US would affirm the 
same opposition at the UN sponsored World Food Summit. The reason given for 
the opposition was that recognition of a right to food would enable poor 
nations to sue the United States for special trade deals.

By allying itself so blindly with America on everything from an attack on 
Iraq through to the abandonment of Australian citizens held without trial 
in Guantanamo Bay, Australia is ignoring this history. It is also ignoring 
the current reality of a world that is increasingly opposed to US 
unilateralism and belligerence.

America's history demonstrates the fallacy of the notion that American 
economic and military might necessitate moral ascendancy. As the American 
actor Will Rogers noted, "If we ever pass out as a great nation, we ought 
to put on our tomb

Ambassador to OZ,a sleazebag,sack of shit,shyster lawyer.

[Matthew X]

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol17/issue19/pols.bush.html
Governor Deadbeat
by Robert Bryce




illustration by Doug Potter

Gov. George W. Bush and the other owners of the Texas Rangers are 
deadbeats. Rich deadbeats, but deadbeats nevertheless. Last week, Bush and 
his partners hit what can only be described as a towering home run by 
selling the Texas Rangers to Thomas Hicks for $250 million. Bush, in 
particular, made a killing. For his 1.8% share of the club, which initially 
cost him $605,000, Hicks will pay the governor between $10 million and $14 
million. That is a return of up to 23 times Bush's original investment in 
less than nine years. (His contract included an accelerated equity clause.) 
But even though Bush and his cohorts are raking in the dough, making nearly 
three times what they paid for the club in 1989, they still haven't paid 
the $7.5 million they owe the city of Arlington.

The Rangers owners owe the money because of a court judgment against the 
Arlington Sports Facilities Development Authority (ASFDA), the entity set 
up by the city to condemn land for, and administer, the Ballpark at 
Arlington project. In May of 1996, a Tarrant County jury found that the 
ASFDA had not paid a fair price for 13 acres of land it condemned; the 
court subsequently awarded the owners of the land, the Mathes family, more 
than six times what the city had agreed to pay for the land. That $5 
million award then sat in escrow with interest accruing at a rate of about 
$1,800 a day. A year after the jury's decision, the city finally decided 
not to appeal the verdict and paid the judgment. That's where the Rangers' 
obligation comes in.

When the Rangers and the city signed their deal in 1990, the Rangers agreed 
to pay any costs on the Ballpark at Arlington project that exceeded $135 
million. The city of Arlington's position has been and continues to be, 
that the $7.5 million judgment should come from Bush and the Rangers.

Two days after Hicks' purchase of the Rangers was announced, Arlington city 
attorney Jay Doegey told the Chronicle, "We have a contract with them that 
says they will pay anything over $135 million. The costs in the 
condemnation case are over that amount." But Doegey has not sent a letter 
to the Rangers demanding payment, and it appears that Arlington city 
officials are reluctant to irritate the Rangers' ownership.

Tom Schieffer, the president and general partner of the Rangers, says of 
the $7.5 million, "It's not our debt. That's the position we have taken. 
And that's consistent with what the master agreement says." But now that he 
and Bush are cashing in their chips with the Rangers, wouldn't it be a nice 
gesture to make good on the debt? "I'm sure we will work out something," 
said Schieffer.

While Arlington waits for its money, Bush is laughing all the way to the 
bank. Asked about the Hicks buyout, the governor told the Fort Worth 
Star-Telegram last week, "I think when it is all said and done, I will have 
made more money than I ever dreamed I would make."

He's making millions because the Ballpark at Arlington is a gigantic cash 
machine. Last year, Financial World magazine named the Ballpark as the most 
profitable venue in baseball. Hicks didn't buy the Rangers because he wants 
Juan Gonzalez's autograph; he bought them because he can make a lot of 
money at the stadium that Bush takes credit for building.

In 1993, while walking around the stadium, Bush told a reporter from the 
Houston Chronicle, "When all those people in Austin say, `He ain't never 
done anything,' well, this is it." But Bush would have never gotten the 
stadium deal off the ground had the city of Arlington not agreed to use its 
power of eminent domain to seize the property that belonged to the Mathes 
family. And evidence presented in the Mathes lawsuit suggests that the 
Rangers owners -- and remember that Bush was the managing general partner 
at the time -- were conspiring to use the city's condemnation powers to 
obtain the 13-acre tract a full six months before the ASFDA was even created.

In an Oct. 26, 1990, memo to Schieffer from Mike Reilly, an Arlington real 
estate broker and part owner of the Rangers,Reilly says of the Mathes 
property "in this particular situation our first offer should be our final 
offer... If this fails, we will probably have to initiate condemnation 
proceedings after the bond election passes."

That memo suggests a sharp contrast between Bush's personal profiteering 
and his public stance in defense of property rights. While running against 
Ann Richards, Bush said, "I understand full well the value of private 
property and its importance not only in our state but in capitalism in 
general, and I will do everything I can to defend the power of private 
property and private property rights when I am the governor of this state." 
Where was that concern when it came to the Mathes family's personal property?

But let's forget about Bush's philosop

McDonalds workers resistance news.

[Matthew X]

 A - I N F O S N E W S S E 
R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ http://ainfos.ca/index24.html 
 OCTOBER 16TH 2002... 
"Slaves who are ready to put up with anything are spared nothing by the 
tyrants" - Georges Darien On October 16th 1918, the people of Hungary began 
to establish councils in their workplaces and communities. They seized land 
from wealthy landowners, occupied factories and freed prisoners. Within a 
month Budapest was run by ordinary people for the benefit of the many. Like 
too many courageous struggles for freedom, the Hungarian councils republic 
was eventually repressed and destroyed, only the vision lingers on... On 
October 16th 2002, a small proportion of the 1.5 million people employed by 
McDonalds around the world will take our first tentative steps towards a 
better world. This is an attempt to explain what's going to happen, where 
this day of action came from, why it's taking place and what we hope to 
achieve. WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ON OCTOBER 16th? Hundreds of McDonalds 
workers, concentrated in the UK, but also across continental Europe, 
Russia, North America and Australasia, will take direct action against our 
employers. We are not necessarily expecting to see strikes, but definitely 
sabotage, go slows, partial walk outs, 'phone in sick days', etc. It will 
be the first ever co-ordinated, international, worker led mobilisation by 
the McDonalds workforce. October 16th was chosen because since the mid 
1980s it has been the date of world anti-McDonalds day. So, simultaneous to 
our actions, people who do not work for McDonalds but are opposed to its 
labour practices, cruelty to animals and destructive environmental impact, 
will also be engaged in actions at McDonalds restaurants all over the 
world. We hope that all actions can be mutually supportive. WHERE DID THIS 
DAY OF ACTION COME FROM? The idea for co-ordinated workers action on 
October 16th was originally developed by the Glasgow branch of McDonalds 
Workers Resistance over a year ago. If you would like to know more about 
MWR, please visit http://mwr.org.uk The Glasgow branch proposed action 
around the following demand: "That all those employed by McDonalds, 
anywhere in the world, be allowed to organise themselves as they wish and 
that they be allowed to conduct the business of their chosen organisations 
on company premises, be allowed to display notices in staff areas and 
generally circulate information without hindrance. That this right to 
organisation and free expression is not dependent on the number of people 
involved in the organisation and that no person shall be prejudiced against 
for involvement in such an organisation. This demand applies to those 
employed directly and indirectly by McDonalds and so includes, for example, 
those employed to make happy meal toys or company packaging. Our lives may 
be very different but our struggle is the same. Finally, we ask McDonalds 
to make explicit that they do not own their employees and that they have no 
right to dictate what we can and cannot believe or express at any time." 
WHY ARE WE TAKING THIS ACTION? By using myriad tactics, legal and illegal, 
to deny us the right to organise, McDonalds ensures they can pay us the 
lowest wages possible to work in bad conditions with a total absence of 
employment rights. This ensures that their profit margins are maximised- in 
other words, a few people get obscenely rich while those who do all the 
work struggle by on minimum wage. But even more than that, by denying us 
the right to organise, they take away our ability to transform the world- 
our ability to change this crazy, destructive, profit driven system into a 
society built in everybody's interest- not just on the terms of the rich. 
WHAT DO WE HOPE TO ACHIEVE? We want to show the world and ourselves that we 
are capable of organising internationally and that we will not be divided 
by lines on a map. We want to show ourselves and the world that we re not 
powerless in the face of multinational corporations, that in fact it is us 
who make their billions and we are able and willing to organise and fight 
back. We want to show ourselves and the world that there is a young 
generation of workers, passionate and rebellious, who refuse to live like 
past generations- we will not surrender our lives to an idiotic pursuit of 
wealth on behalf of those who already have too much. We want to take our 
first tentative steps towards a world designed for the many, not the few. 
WHAT CAN YOU DO? BE PART OF IT!!! Take action on October 16th. It doesn't 
have to be anything spectacular- you could just phone in sick... or... 
break a machine, steal from the till, stop work in the middle of lunchtime, 
turn the power off at a busy period, give away free food, work especially 
slowly, follow every procedure exactly, inform customers about what's going 
on, turn the freezer 

Anarchist Portal gets 3 million hits per month.

[Matthew X]

OK so a lot might be freepers and feds but still...and its always going to 
be early days for the web,we all know that,right?
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31953&group=webcast
WWelcome to the second issue of an irregular update on the Infoshop.org 
project. We hope that this update can help you find new features and 
understand what is going on with this project. As the Infoshop.org project 
grows and includes more and more volunteers, regular communication is 
becoming more important.
Infoshop.org has been causing trouble on the web since it went online in 
January 1995 as the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop. With over 3 million hits a month 
as of last year, Infoshop.org is considered by many to be a valuable 
resource to the anarchist and anti-capitalist movements, as well as for 
thousands of people who are simply looking for alternatives to the current 
capitalist system. The website is graciously hosted by the 
flag.blackened.net server, which is part of a collective of anarchist and 
anti-authoritarian digital activists. The webmaster and coordinator of 
Infoshop is Chuck "Chuck0" Munson. The website is becoming more of a 
collaborative network project every day.
www.infoshop.org 

Re: Startups, Bubbles, and Unemployment

[Eric Cordian]

Tim philosophizes:

> I read with interest the comments on the "why are so many applied 
> cryptographers unemployed?" thread.

> I know a _lot_ of unemployed folks. Or folks looking for more than "part 
> time consulting" work.

> Lots of issues, lots of possible reasons for the high unemployment rate 
> of applied cryptographers:

> (This writer, an acquaintance of mine, has been trying for several years 
> to get various projects going. Sad to say, his very words above indicate 
> just how flaky his ideas are. He thinks others will fund projects as a 
> kind of charityware. 

Such people can be greatly helped by giving them an hour of your time, and
repeating the words "but what's the product?" every 90 seconds as they are
trying to talk.

> "We're young, we're Cypherpunks, let's raise some money, get a nice 
> office space with our espresso bar and hot tub, hire our friends, and 
> become rich."

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with this approach, as long as you are
being paid to think about something, with no expectation that a product
will be produced or sold.

"We're young.  We're Cypherpunks.  Let's find a research firm with a pool,
tennis courts, and free Coke, and get the government to pay us for a few
years to think about the cryptographic software needs of the
Rehabilitation Services Administration."

Where this model fails is when people want you to pay them to sit around
the pool and think up some product that is going to put Intel and
Microsoft out of business and make everyone rich.  Of course, only people
with no clue think in such terms, or expect someone else to fund their
lifestyle while they sit around "thinking off" all day.

Nice work if you can get it.

> Note: This is NOT directed at ZKS, which actually DID hire a guy like 
> Ian Goldberg! 

And coasted for quite a long time on Ian Goldberg's reputation capital
before the petard exploded and hoisted them.  Of course, the fact that the
actual users of the service were saying things like "it's slow", "it
sucks", "it blows", might have been a great hint that it was not destined
to become the next AOL/Time Warner.

> The third and probably most important reason is that a "good idea" is 
> not enough. Products that people actually pay money for is the raison 
> d'etre of companies. 

Some of the most exciting, stimulating software engineering projects you
can imagine are things no one in their right mind would ever want to buy.

Yet, it's startling how often "fun to work on" rises to the top of why a
project should be done.

> A lot of folks seem to think companies are just cool places to play 
> around with ideas at.

As the VP for R&D at Boeing once put it, "This isn't Boeing University."

Most of my friends who are rich and retired now did it not by inventing
any wonder product.  They did it by taking any job that was secure and
paid reasonably well, living on a shoestring, putting their money into
rental properties, fixing them up, renting them out, and reselling them.

A few lived on a shoestring, and put all their money into Fidelity
Magellan before it was a household word, or put their money into stocks,
or whatever, but you get the idea.

After you're loaded, then you can tinker in your garage without having to
ask anyone to fund your hobby.

I worry when people with niche skills bemoan high unemployment in their
niche.  It's a very bad time for Applied Cryptographers, Smalltalk-80
programmers, Algol-68 compiler bug fixers, Lisp Machine operators, or
whatever, they whine.

Again, take any job that pays well.  Live on a shoestring.  Do something
reasonably intelligent with your money.

If someone wanders by who has the next wonder product already developed,
and people are beating a path to their door to buy it, by all means pick
up some stock pre-IPO.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a wealthy McDonalds franchisee
whose hobby is Applied Cryptography, instead of a poor unemployed Applied
Cryptographer.

To Summarize:

1.  Hobbies are things we do for fun.  Jobs are things we do because
they provide the world with a necessary good or service.  Don't
make the mistake of thinking the world owes you a job that is also
your hobby.  It's nice, but it rarely happens.  

2.  Take any job that pays well.  Live on a shoestring.  Do something
intelligent with the leftover money.

3.  Invest some money in already developed products that look like they
may become the Next Big Thing.

4.  Don't expect anyone to pay you to sit around and figure out what the
Next Big Thing is going to be. 

-- 
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

Revolution in OZ.

[Matthew X]

http://www.hermes-press.com/MG/oz.htm
"A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary 
movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and 
then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the 
powers that have become vacant."
Everyone a remailer,everyone a mint,everyone a wizard/witch.Crypto 
confessionals,free drugs/love.Tax breaks,religons have quite a bit in 
favour.Faith based vouchers are flowing,wtf are we waiting for? We already 
have Toto.

Re: get me the fuck out of oz

[Tim May]

On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 01:02  PM, Wilfred L. Guerin wrote:

> death to narnians
> death to lookies
> death to lambs and sheep
> death to nosepickers
> death to all others undesirable...
> possibly even death to praetorians.
> ...
>
> get me the fuck out of oz, and away from this god forsaken continent.
>
> advise ultra-heavy response.
>
> I hear the ukraine has nice dark portallous places and devices? Only a
> suggestion. Any options other than south are viable.
>
> toodlez.
>

I've been getting your "special mailings" (i.e., I'm on some list you 
have separate from Cypherpunks) for a few months now.

Whatever contributions you might have made several years ago (I forget), 
your weird writings of the last several months mark you as a loon.

Please remove me from your "special mailings" and please seek 
professional help.

(If in fact you are even the "Wilfred Guerin" of several years ago, as 
opposed to being the Oz-dweller who used to bombard us with so many of 
his similar rants.)



--Tim May

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[Wilfred L. Guerin]

death to narnians
death to lookies
death to lambs and sheep
death to nosepickers
death to all others undesirable...
possibly even death to praetorians.
...

get me the fuck out of oz, and away from this god forsaken continent.

advise ultra-heavy response.

I hear the ukraine has nice dark portallous places and devices? Only a
suggestion. Any options other than south are viable.

toodlez.

-Wilfred Lee Guerin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

He's Baaaack!

[R. A. Hettinga]

Yee-freakin'-hah!

Wherein Dr. C., freed from clutches of the WAVEoids, resumes the fight for
Truth, Justice, and the PGP Way...

Outstanding.

Congratulations, Jon.

Go get 'em.

Cheers,
RAH

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Startups, Bubbles, and Unemployment

[Tim May]

I read with interest the comments on the "why are so many applied 
cryptographers unemployed?" thread.

I know a _lot_ of unemployed folks. Or folks looking for more than "part 
time consulting" work.

Lots of issues, lots of possible reasons for the high unemployment rate 
of applied cryptographers:

* The collapse or sale or downsizing of several companies which formerly 
employed a fair number of Cypherpunks: PGP (used to employ about 6-10 
list members that I know of), ZKS (maybe 5-8 active list memmbers, 
IIRC), C2Net in the 1994-97 years, Counterpane (several list members), 
and even Netscape (three list members, brothers, represented the 
"security department" for a while). This kind of collapse or downsizing 
dumps a lot of the same kind of people on the market.

* End to crazy ideas of "let's do a start-up!"

* An example. Here's part of an e-mail I received recently from someone 
who proposed that I give him some money for some kind of start up or 
charityware project in an area of interest to both of us. I have changed 
the details for obvious reasons:

"I had this vague hope that you might be interested in throwing some
money at an interesting problem in FOO to see if something worthwhile
might result with a view to seeing if it could produce money later.
Nothing so risky as a startup - a startup might make money, whereas what
I was thinking of would be absolutely guaranteed a ROI of 0%. No risk
there :-)  Hopefully a chance of some fun and benefit to humanity
though."

(This writer, an acquaintance of mine, has been trying for several years 
to get various projects going. Sad to say, his very words above indicate 
just how flaky his ideas are. He thinks others will fund projects as a 
kind of charityware. Given the loaded cost of people these days, even 
with reduced expectations in this current downturn, it hasn't even been 
possible for billionaires like Paul Allen to fund projects successfully. 
Many examples exist, even of some crypto startups, where tens of 
millions of dollars went into salaries, benefits, perks, facilities, 
with essentially nothing to show for the expenditures. More on this 
point later.)

*Back in the 1970s and early 80s, high tech start-ups were difficult to 
do. It took some really good ideas, or at least the departure of a 
talented group of people who had already developed something. Examples 
like Sun and Cisco are examples of where the core technology had already 
been developed (Stanford, in both cases) and where the companies could 
begin to SELL PRODUCTS almost immediately.

* A company formed at about the time the VC industry was transitioning 
from "hard money" (hard to fund a start up) to "easy money" was RSA Data 
Security. And though it owned a much more valuable property than most 
recent crypto startups have owned, it almost went under a couple of 
times. Read Levy's "Crypto" for some details of how it almost failed in 
the late 80s and again in the early 90s.

* I've seen a bunch of "applied crypto" companies during this recent 
Internet bubble where the intellectual property is far, far less 
compelling than "RSA" was. I don't mean to insult any of my friends 
here, but the notion with a lot of these companies seems to have been 
"We're young, we're Cypherpunks, let's raise some money, get a nice 
office space with our espresso bar and hot tub, hire our friends, and 
become rich."

(This is perhaps too harsh a summary. But I'll let it stand as a 
reference point.)

* There are still roles for start ups. But I think some really good 
ideas are needed. Just "riding the wave" is no longer working...it 
worked during the bubble years, for a bunch of companies...most of which 
are now greatly downsized or gone completely.

* Don't quit your day job. And if you don't have a day job, get one 
(assuming you need some money...some folks have independent sources of 
some amount of money).

(Note that during the tough period for RSA, most of the key technical 
people had other jobs, as professors, etc. I think Rivest took one year 
off from MIT to consult full-time for RSADSI, but mostly they had other 
jobs the whole time. Only after the revenues began consistently flowing 
were a lot of full-time people hired. During the bubble, of course, they 
staffed up to high levels, expanded, got involved in other ventures, 
etc. And Bidzos, of course, rode the bubble by co-founding and being 
Chairman of Verisign.)

* Doing things in a garage is more than just a quaint image. It means 
"doing things without _any_ burn rate." It means having a day job.

* The notion that a group will raise ten million bucks, rent expensive 
facilities, hire their friends, and THEN get to work on product 
development (or, more often, playing around with potential ideas), is 
just not plausible any longer.

* especially dangerous is the seductive idea that one can take a broad 
idea, seek funding, be the CEO, and then "hire a bunch of guys like Ian 
Goldberg."

Note: This is NOT directed

Re: Signing as one member of a set of keys

[Ben Laurie]

Anonymous wrote:
>>>*** COULD SOMEONE PLEASE FOLLOW THE STEPS ABOVE AND PUT THE ringsig.c,
>>>ringsign, ringver, AND sigring.pgp FILES ON A WEB PAGE SO THAT PEOPLE
>>>CAN DOWNLOAD THEM WITHOUT HAVING TO GO THROUGH ALL THESE STEPS? ***
>>
>>Once it works, I'll happily do that, but...
>>
>>
>>>6. Finally, the verification step: run the ringver perl script, giving the
>>>PGP key file created in step 5 as an argument, and giving it the ringsig.c
>>>file as standard input:
>>>
>>>./ringver sigring.pgp < ringsig.c
>>>
>>>This should print the message "Good signature".
>>
>>ben@scuzzy:~/tmp/multisign$ ./ringver pubring.pkr < testwhole
>>ERROR: Bad signature
> 
> 
> Could you post the files anyway on a web page, then the author can check
> them against his copies and see which are corrupted?

OK. Coming soon.

Cheers,

Ben.

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Re: Signing as one member of a set of keys

[Anonymous]

> > *** COULD SOMEONE PLEASE FOLLOW THE STEPS ABOVE AND PUT THE ringsig.c,
> > ringsign, ringver, AND sigring.pgp FILES ON A WEB PAGE SO THAT PEOPLE
> > CAN DOWNLOAD THEM WITHOUT HAVING TO GO THROUGH ALL THESE STEPS? ***
>
> Once it works, I'll happily do that, but...
>
> > 6. Finally, the verification step: run the ringver perl script, giving the
> > PGP key file created in step 5 as an argument, and giving it the ringsig.c
> > file as standard input:
> > 
> > ./ringver sigring.pgp < ringsig.c
> > 
> > This should print the message "Good signature".
>
> ben@scuzzy:~/tmp/multisign$ ./ringver pubring.pkr < testwhole
> ERROR: Bad signature

Could you post the files anyway on a web page, then the author can check
them against his copies and see which are corrupted?

PGP Corp. Purchases PGP Desktop Encryption and Wireless Product Lines from NET

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August 19, 2002


Dear Customer,

Today we are pleased to announce that PGP Corporation, a newly formed,
venture-funded security company, has acquired the PGP desktop encryption
and wireless product lines from Network Associates.  As you know, prior to
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Network Associates has retained products developed using PGPsdk including
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Re: Signing as one member of a set of keys

[Ben Laurie]

Anonymous wrote:
> Steps to verify the "ring signature" file (note: you must have the openssl
> library installed):
> 
> 
> 1. Save http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.2002.08.05-2002.08.11/msg00221.html,
> as text, to the file ringsig.c.  Delete the paragraph of explanation, and/or any
> HTML junk, so the file starts with:
> 
> /* Implementation of ring signatures from
>  * http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/RivestShamirTauman-HowToLeakASecret.pdf
>  * by Rivest, Shamir and Tauman
> 
> and it ends with:
> 
> lPglqmmy3p4D+psNU1rlNv6yH/L0PgcuW7taVpbopjl4HLuJdWcKHJlXish3D/jb
> eoQ856fYFZ/omGiO9x1D0BsnGFLZVWob4OIZRzO/Pc49VIhFy5NsV2zuozStId89
> [...]
>  */
> 
> 
> 2. The "[...]" above is where a remailer caused some of the signature
> to be stripped out.  Replace the last few lines of ringsig.c with the
> text from
> http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.2002.08.05-2002.08.11/msg00306.html.
> This has the lines from the END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK line onward.
> The last lines of the ringsig.c file should be:
> 
> BjHTDH0VZeu3IxUFh37w2fIEehL8WrXvCoCMFnd1/bnn/qI/STXgg6as579/yBIJ
> nJra7Ceru4q4wUssK79T6SdOM6wcvVg96ub4UOTaPO4wYhhadCbLFpl3tPfTLceb
>  */
> 
> 
> 3. Compile ringsig.c using the openssl library, to form an executable file
> "ringsig".  Try running ringsig and you will get a usage message.
> 
> 
> 4. Get the two perl scripts from
> http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.2002.08.05-2002.08.11/msg00313.html
> and save them as "ringver" and "ringsign".
> 
> 
> 5. Run the ringsig.c file through the "pgp" program to create a PGP key
> ring file from the PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK data.  With the command line
> version of PGP 2.6.2 the command is:
> 
> pgp -ka ringsig.c sigring.pgp
> 
> This will also show you the set of keys, one of which made the signature.
> 
> *** COULD SOMEONE PLEASE FOLLOW THE STEPS ABOVE AND PUT THE ringsig.c,
> ringsign, ringver, AND sigring.pgp FILES ON A WEB PAGE SO THAT PEOPLE
> CAN DOWNLOAD THEM WITHOUT HAVING TO GO THROUGH ALL THESE STEPS? ***

Once it works, I'll happily do that, but...

> 6. Finally, the verification step: run the ringver perl script, giving the
> PGP key file created in step 5 as an argument, and giving it the ringsig.c
> file as standard input:
> 
> ./ringver sigring.pgp < ringsig.c
> 
> This should print the message "Good signature".

ben@scuzzy:~/tmp/multisign$ ./ringver pubring.pkr < testwhole
ERROR: Bad signature

(Incidentally, this was the procedure I followed in the first place, 
except I manually broke the file into parts, rather than using ringver).

I still suggest sending the relevant file as an attachment, so it 
doesn't get mangled in transit.

I wonder how many people are now convinced I didn't write this code? ;-)

Cheers,

Ben.

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Raise the Fist.Its anarchy I tell you.

[Matthew X]

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It's been over a month since Raisethefist.com was shut down by the U.S 
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remote server. Luckly, after being denied access to our backed up files, 
we've finally been able to obtain them thanx to persistant letter writing 
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Our backups were a few months old, so sadly, some articles are still lost, 
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Kernot e-mail

[Matthew X]

Police wind up Kernot email probe
The Australian Federal Police will take no further action on a complaint 
from former Labor MP Cheryl Kernot about unauthorised access to personal 
emails.

Ms Kernot had asked police to investigate how a journalist had obtained 
copies of emails used to reveal her affair with another former Labor MP 
Gareth Evans.

Police say electronic records tracing the emails are no longer available, 
so any further investigation would be unsuccessful.

Have You Ever Needed A Nurse? There is a huge shortage of compassionate nurses in USA

[certified]

I sincerely apologize for this intrusion, but my
family is in desperate need.  This really took the
last of my pride to have to beg kind hearted people
for help.  I have exhausted all other means to
temporarily care for my family.  I have been
suffering from a painful and potentially fatal
condition.(pancreatitus)  I have been unable to work
much the last several months.  My occupation is
physically demanding (tile setting).  My wife has
been working full time, and at a second  part time
job, and attending college.  Next week she starts
her RN training.  She has been on a waiting list for
over 3 years to do this.  We have 4 teenagers
starting back to school next week as well.  My kids
need new clothes, and my wife needs tuition.  I am
going to be late on my house payment, and our truck
is broken.  I swear to GOD This is all true.  I just
don't know what to do.  I feel as a complete failure
as a father, husband, and provider.I am humiliated,
seriously depressed, and sricken with panic. My
salvation is on its way though.  I have a buyer for
my business but they can't close until January of
2003.I have had to practically give it away but at
least my wife will be able to finish her degree.
She is going to be an excellent nurse, she is full
of compassion.  I have not told her that I am
begging, she has enough on her mind and has been
humiliated enough. If you could see it in your heart
to help us with a very small donation-$5 or less, we
will both say a prayer for you and ask for you to be
blessed for your charity.  What I will also do in
return is email you over 50 unique and interesting
reports that I purchased some time ago.  I am sure
you will find them very interesting and
enlightening.  I guarantee your address will be
deleted after I hear from you. If you are kind
enough to help us just email me to let me know and I
will send you the reports and our home address.
Agin, I apologize for intruding, your name was
furnished to me by an aquaintence who knows someone
wo works for a famous auction site.  This was her
way of trying to help this family.  Thank you for
your time and thought.