fw : Paris Hilton Joke (video)

2004-03-08 Thread Sebastian
Get all your Paris Hilton movies here:
- http://sec2.bkmark.com/ph?a=hilton


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Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-08 Thread Ben Laurie
Peter Gutmann wrote:

Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


A way that works would involve passphrase-locked keyrings, and forgetful
MUAs (this mutt only caches the passphrase for a preset time).


A way that works *in theory* would involve   The chances of any vendor
of mass-market software shipping an MUA where the user has to enter a password
just to send mail are approximately... zero.
And it doesn't even work in theory - once your PC is hacked, the 
passphrase would be known the first time you used it.

Cheers,

Ben.

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There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he
doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff


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Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:19:23AM +, Ben Laurie wrote:

 And it doesn't even work in theory - once your PC is hacked, the 
 passphrase would be known the first time you used it.

True, but in the current threat model passphrase snarfing is yet negligible
(keyloggers look for credit card info, etc.). Also, the fraction of 0wn3d
to pristine machines is low, and likely go become lower in future. So the
egress points of spam remain few, and if they come with signatures, so much
better for us. If they don't come with signatures, or use variable signatures
(if you disregard entropy pool issues, how many signatures/min can you churn
out on a desktop PC?), ditto (if you compute spam score by signed, and know
signed vs unsigned).

*BSD and Linux penetration rate (desktop, not server) is low, Redmondware is
about to become similiarly hardened at the network layer. Things are still a
bit dismal at the userland executable level, but security has become a
selling argument. So, sooner or later, they will have to start selling
something palpably more secure, instead of just waffling about it.

The passphrase locking idear won't fly, but a biometrics-lockable wallet could. Isn't
part of Pd envelope goal establishing a tamper-proof compartment? We know Pd
is evil, but once hardware support is everywhere, one can as well use it for
something positive, for a change.

-- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a
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[FoRK] Outlawing dissent: COINTELPRO resurgence (fwd from jbone@place.org)

2004-03-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
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There was a recent NOW bit re: trends in domestic spying... prompted me 
to hunt around a bit, found this --- essentially the same gist.

I love it:  the Quakers (American Friends Service Committee) --- a 
criminal extremist group.  Well, hell yeah, that damned philosophy of 
perfect silence is criminally annoying. ;-)


--

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_5102.shtml

 From AxisofLogic.com

Civil Rights/Human Rights
Outlawing dissent: Spying on peace meetings, cracking down on 
protesters, keeping secret files on innocent people -- how Bush's war 
on terror has become a war on freedom

By Michelle Goldberg
Feb 12, 2004, 10:07

News
A sting-ball grenade thrown by Oakland police, foreground, explodes 
over running protesters during an antiwar protest in Oakland, Calif., 
April 7, 2003.

February 11, 2004-The undercover cop introduced herself to the 
activists from the Colorado Coalition Against the War in Iraq as Chris 
Hoffman, but her real name was Chris Hurley. Last March, she arrived at 
a nonviolence training session in Denver, along with another undercover 
officer, Brad Wanchisen, whom she introduced as her boyfriend. The 
session, held at the Escuela Tlatelolco, a Denver private school, was 
organized to prepare activists for a sit-in at the Buckley Air National 
Guard Base the next day, March 15. Hurley said she wanted to 
participate. She said she was willing to get arrested for the cause of 
peace. In fact, she did get arrested. She was just never charged. The 
activists she protested with wouldn't find out why for months.

Chris Hurley was just one of many cops all over the country who went 
undercover to spy on antiwar protesters last year. Nonviolent antiwar 
groups in Fresno, Calif., Grand Rapids, Mich., and Albuquerque, N.M., 
have all been infiltrated or surveilled by undercover police officers. 
Shortly after the Buckley protest, the Boulder group was infiltrated a 
second time, by another pair of police posing as an activist couple.

Meanwhile, protesters arrested at antiwar demonstrations in New York 
last spring were extensively questioned about their political 
associations, and their answers were entered into databases. And last 
week, a federal prosecutor in Des Moines, Iowa, obtained a subpoena 
demanding that Drake University turn over records from an antiwar 
conference called Stop the Occupation! Bring the Iowa Guard Home! 
that the school's chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a civil 
libertarian legal group, hosted on Nov. 15 of last year, the day before 
a protest at the Iowa National Guard headquarters. Among the 
information the government sought was the names of the leaders of the 
Drake University Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, its records 
dating back to January of 2002, and the names of everyone who attended 
the Stop the Occupation! conference. Four antiwar activists also 
received subpoenas in the investigation.

On Tuesday, after a national outcry, the U.S. Attorney's Office 
canceled the subpoenas. Still, says Bruce Nestor, a former president of 
the National Lawyers Guild who is serving as the Drake chapter's 
attorney, We're concerned that some type of investigation is ongoing.

In the early 1970s, after the exposure of COINTELPRO, a program of 
widespread FBI surveillance and sabotage of political dissidents, 
reforms were put in place to prevent the government from spying on 
political groups when there was no suspicion of criminal activity. But 
once again, protesters throughout America are being watched, often by 
police who are supposed to be investigating terrorism. Civil 
disobedience, seen during peaceful times as the honorable legacy of 
heroes like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., is being treated as 
terrorism's cousin, and the government claims to be justified in 
infiltrating any meeting where it's even discussed. It's too early to 
tell if America is entering a repeat of the COINTELPRO era. But Jeffrey 
Fogel, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Law in 
Manhattan, says, There are certainly enough warning signs out there 
that we may be.

As a new round of protests approaches -- including worldwide antiwar 
demonstrations on March 20 and massive anti-Bush actions during the 
Republican National Convention in August and September -- experts say 
the surveillance is likely to increase. The government is taking an 
increasingly hostile stance toward protesters, says Michael Avery, 
president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor of 
constitutional law at Suffolk University. In the run-up to the 
Republican Convention, he says, I'm sure the government will be 
attempting to infiltrate political groups. They may send agent 

fw : Paris Hilton Joke (video)

2004-03-08 Thread Mrs Neville
Get all your Paris Hilton movies here:
- http://search8.bkmark.com/ph?a=hilton


forward it on...


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To: Cypherpunks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: fw : Paris Hilton Joke (video)



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Evidence is clear: Videos convict

2004-03-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=84540

The Orange County Register

Monday, March 8, 2004

 Evidence is clear: Videos convict
  And sometimes it's the accused themselves who provide the taped version
of the smoking gun.


 By LARRY WELBORN
 The Orange County Register


 Twelve jurors and two alternates sat almost unblinkingly in a 10th-floor
courtroom and watched a 21-minute videotape on two television monitors.

Some squirmed in the swivel seats in the jury box but their eyes remained
riveted on the screens, watching images of two men having sex with an
apparently unconscious woman in a Newport Beach apartment as techno music
droned in the background.

The trial of Allen Ward Crocker provided jurors with a rare chance to see
exactly what happened in a case of alleged sexual assault.

 Most of the time, jurors must decide guilt or innocence based on witness
memories, documents or expert testimony. But with the inexpensive but
still-sharp video cameras in existence these days, videotaped evidence is
becoming more and more common in criminal courtrooms, veteran lawyers say.

The Crocker case has similarities to the pending prosecution of Gregory
Haidl, the son of an assistant sheriff, and two of his teenage friends.

 They face trial next month in the alleged rape of an unconscious
16-year-old girl in July 2002.

 Haidl, 18, videotaped the encounter in Newport Beach, and now prosecutors
are using those images against him.

 The accused aren't the only ones providing police with videotape to show
jurors.

 In Los Angeles, an amateur photographer recorded the notorious videotape
of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police officers. And in Orange
County, a surveillance camera at a convenience store captured images of a
former mental patient murdering sheriff's Deputy Brad Riches.

 I call it the proliferation of Little Brother, said Costa Mesa defense
attorney Paul S. Meyer, who has prosecuted and defended in criminal cases
in Orange County for more than 30 years. You know, just about everyone has
a video camera these days. It's only common sense that these videotapes are
showing up in trials.

In the Crocker case, it took the eight-man, four-woman jury just 90 minutes
to reach a verdict: guilty of rape.

Deputy District Attorney Steve McGreevy argued that the videotape clearly
depicted a crime-in-progress: The woman was unconscious after an evening of
bar-hopping in Newport Beach and unable to give consent.

 Defense attorney Robert Chatterton insisted that the videotape showed that
if the woman was unconscious, then Crocker, 36, of Tustin, was unaware of
it. Crocker had a good-faith belief that the woman consented to sex,
Chatterton argued.

 We were able to witness it ourselves, said juror Kristina Durbin, 27, a
health-care worker who lives in Mission Viejo. Without the videotape, I
wouldn't have been able to reach the decision because he would have been
able to put doubt in my mind. But with the videotape, the crime he was
charged with was right in front of me.

 The rape was caught on tape because Crocker's friend and alleged
accomplice, Tim Marino, 41, started his video camera rolling after the
victim passed out.

 The victim testified that she didn't know what was happening to her and
didn't know that the episode had been videotaped.

A $500,000 arrest warrant has been issued for Marino, who never kept an
appointment with a Newport Beach police detective after an investigation of
the Sept. 14, 2003, encounter was launched.

 Prominent Orange County defense attorney Jennifer Keller, a former deputy
public defender and a former president of the Orange County Bar
Association, said videotaped crimes won't be so rare in the future.

It seems everything we do now is recorded or videotaped, Keller said. To
our children, video cameras are second nature.

Assistant District Attorney Roseanne Froeberg, head of the office's
sex-crimes unit, said there have been sporadic cases in the past in which
rapes or other sex crimes were memorialized on videotape. But she said she
is seeing more of them lately.

It does make it easier for us to prosecute when criminals videotape
themselves in the act, she said. But to me, it is a sad commentary on our
society. Videotaping their perversions for sport takes things to different
level. An incredibly ugly level, in my opinion.

Said Meyer: I call these ego crimes, where the criminals memorialize their
deeds on videotape. And yes, he added, we will be seeing more and more of
these.

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Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:19:23AM +, Ben Laurie wrote:

 And it doesn't even work in theory - once your PC is hacked, the 
 passphrase would be known the first time you used it.

True, but in the current threat model passphrase snarfing is yet negligible
(keyloggers look for credit card info, etc.). Also, the fraction of 0wn3d
to pristine machines is low, and likely go become lower in future. So the
egress points of spam remain few, and if they come with signatures, so much
better for us. If they don't come with signatures, or use variable signatures
(if you disregard entropy pool issues, how many signatures/min can you churn
out on a desktop PC?), ditto (if you compute spam score by signed, and know
signed vs unsigned).

*BSD and Linux penetration rate (desktop, not server) is low, Redmondware is
about to become similiarly hardened at the network layer. Things are still a
bit dismal at the userland executable level, but security has become a
selling argument. So, sooner or later, they will have to start selling
something palpably more secure, instead of just waffling about it.

The passphrase locking idear won't fly, but a biometrics-lockable wallet could. Isn't
part of Pd envelope goal establishing a tamper-proof compartment? We know Pd
is evil, but once hardware support is everywhere, one can as well use it for
something positive, for a change.

-- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a
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ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org
8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A  7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-08 Thread Ben Laurie
Peter Gutmann wrote:

Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


A way that works would involve passphrase-locked keyrings, and forgetful
MUAs (this mutt only caches the passphrase for a preset time).


A way that works *in theory* would involve   The chances of any vendor
of mass-market software shipping an MUA where the user has to enter a password
just to send mail are approximately... zero.
And it doesn't even work in theory - once your PC is hacked, the 
passphrase would be known the first time you used it.

Cheers,

Ben.

--
http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html   http://www.thebunker.net/
There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he
doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff


[FoRK] Outlawing dissent: COINTELPRO resurgence (fwd from jbone@place.org)

2004-03-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from jbone @ place. org [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 22:42:43 -0600
To: forkit! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [FoRK] Outlawing dissent:  COINTELPRO resurgence
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609)


There was a recent NOW bit re: trends in domestic spying... prompted me 
to hunt around a bit, found this --- essentially the same gist.

I love it:  the Quakers (American Friends Service Committee) --- a 
criminal extremist group.  Well, hell yeah, that damned philosophy of 
perfect silence is criminally annoying. ;-)


--

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_5102.shtml

 From AxisofLogic.com

Civil Rights/Human Rights
Outlawing dissent: Spying on peace meetings, cracking down on 
protesters, keeping secret files on innocent people -- how Bush's war 
on terror has become a war on freedom

By Michelle Goldberg
Feb 12, 2004, 10:07

News
A sting-ball grenade thrown by Oakland police, foreground, explodes 
over running protesters during an antiwar protest in Oakland, Calif., 
April 7, 2003.

February 11, 2004-The undercover cop introduced herself to the 
activists from the Colorado Coalition Against the War in Iraq as Chris 
Hoffman, but her real name was Chris Hurley. Last March, she arrived at 
a nonviolence training session in Denver, along with another undercover 
officer, Brad Wanchisen, whom she introduced as her boyfriend. The 
session, held at the Escuela Tlatelolco, a Denver private school, was 
organized to prepare activists for a sit-in at the Buckley Air National 
Guard Base the next day, March 15. Hurley said she wanted to 
participate. She said she was willing to get arrested for the cause of 
peace. In fact, she did get arrested. She was just never charged. The 
activists she protested with wouldn't find out why for months.

Chris Hurley was just one of many cops all over the country who went 
undercover to spy on antiwar protesters last year. Nonviolent antiwar 
groups in Fresno, Calif., Grand Rapids, Mich., and Albuquerque, N.M., 
have all been infiltrated or surveilled by undercover police officers. 
Shortly after the Buckley protest, the Boulder group was infiltrated a 
second time, by another pair of police posing as an activist couple.

Meanwhile, protesters arrested at antiwar demonstrations in New York 
last spring were extensively questioned about their political 
associations, and their answers were entered into databases. And last 
week, a federal prosecutor in Des Moines, Iowa, obtained a subpoena 
demanding that Drake University turn over records from an antiwar 
conference called Stop the Occupation! Bring the Iowa Guard Home! 
that the school's chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a civil 
libertarian legal group, hosted on Nov. 15 of last year, the day before 
a protest at the Iowa National Guard headquarters. Among the 
information the government sought was the names of the leaders of the 
Drake University Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, its records 
dating back to January of 2002, and the names of everyone who attended 
the Stop the Occupation! conference. Four antiwar activists also 
received subpoenas in the investigation.

On Tuesday, after a national outcry, the U.S. Attorney's Office 
canceled the subpoenas. Still, says Bruce Nestor, a former president of 
the National Lawyers Guild who is serving as the Drake chapter's 
attorney, We're concerned that some type of investigation is ongoing.

In the early 1970s, after the exposure of COINTELPRO, a program of 
widespread FBI surveillance and sabotage of political dissidents, 
reforms were put in place to prevent the government from spying on 
political groups when there was no suspicion of criminal activity. But 
once again, protesters throughout America are being watched, often by 
police who are supposed to be investigating terrorism. Civil 
disobedience, seen during peaceful times as the honorable legacy of 
heroes like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., is being treated as 
terrorism's cousin, and the government claims to be justified in 
infiltrating any meeting where it's even discussed. It's too early to 
tell if America is entering a repeat of the COINTELPRO era. But Jeffrey 
Fogel, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Law in 
Manhattan, says, There are certainly enough warning signs out there 
that we may be.

As a new round of protests approaches -- including worldwide antiwar 
demonstrations on March 20 and massive anti-Bush actions during the 
Republican National Convention in August and September -- experts say 
the surveillance is likely to increase. The government is taking an 
increasingly hostile stance toward protesters, says Michael Avery, 
president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor of 
constitutional law at Suffolk University. In the run-up to the 
Republican Convention, he says, I'm sure the government will be 
attempting to infiltrate political groups. They may send agent 

Evidence is clear: Videos convict

2004-03-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=84540

The Orange County Register

Monday, March 8, 2004

 Evidence is clear: Videos convict
  And sometimes it's the accused themselves who provide the taped version
of the smoking gun.


 By LARRY WELBORN
 The Orange County Register


 Twelve jurors and two alternates sat almost unblinkingly in a 10th-floor
courtroom and watched a 21-minute videotape on two television monitors.

Some squirmed in the swivel seats in the jury box but their eyes remained
riveted on the screens, watching images of two men having sex with an
apparently unconscious woman in a Newport Beach apartment as techno music
droned in the background.

The trial of Allen Ward Crocker provided jurors with a rare chance to see
exactly what happened in a case of alleged sexual assault.

 Most of the time, jurors must decide guilt or innocence based on witness
memories, documents or expert testimony. But with the inexpensive but
still-sharp video cameras in existence these days, videotaped evidence is
becoming more and more common in criminal courtrooms, veteran lawyers say.

The Crocker case has similarities to the pending prosecution of Gregory
Haidl, the son of an assistant sheriff, and two of his teenage friends.

 They face trial next month in the alleged rape of an unconscious
16-year-old girl in July 2002.

 Haidl, 18, videotaped the encounter in Newport Beach, and now prosecutors
are using those images against him.

 The accused aren't the only ones providing police with videotape to show
jurors.

 In Los Angeles, an amateur photographer recorded the notorious videotape
of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police officers. And in Orange
County, a surveillance camera at a convenience store captured images of a
former mental patient murdering sheriff's Deputy Brad Riches.

 I call it the proliferation of Little Brother, said Costa Mesa defense
attorney Paul S. Meyer, who has prosecuted and defended in criminal cases
in Orange County for more than 30 years. You know, just about everyone has
a video camera these days. It's only common sense that these videotapes are
showing up in trials.

In the Crocker case, it took the eight-man, four-woman jury just 90 minutes
to reach a verdict: guilty of rape.

Deputy District Attorney Steve McGreevy argued that the videotape clearly
depicted a crime-in-progress: The woman was unconscious after an evening of
bar-hopping in Newport Beach and unable to give consent.

 Defense attorney Robert Chatterton insisted that the videotape showed that
if the woman was unconscious, then Crocker, 36, of Tustin, was unaware of
it. Crocker had a good-faith belief that the woman consented to sex,
Chatterton argued.

 We were able to witness it ourselves, said juror Kristina Durbin, 27, a
health-care worker who lives in Mission Viejo. Without the videotape, I
wouldn't have been able to reach the decision because he would have been
able to put doubt in my mind. But with the videotape, the crime he was
charged with was right in front of me.

 The rape was caught on tape because Crocker's friend and alleged
accomplice, Tim Marino, 41, started his video camera rolling after the
victim passed out.

 The victim testified that she didn't know what was happening to her and
didn't know that the episode had been videotaped.

A $500,000 arrest warrant has been issued for Marino, who never kept an
appointment with a Newport Beach police detective after an investigation of
the Sept. 14, 2003, encounter was launched.

 Prominent Orange County defense attorney Jennifer Keller, a former deputy
public defender and a former president of the Orange County Bar
Association, said videotaped crimes won't be so rare in the future.

It seems everything we do now is recorded or videotaped, Keller said. To
our children, video cameras are second nature.

Assistant District Attorney Roseanne Froeberg, head of the office's
sex-crimes unit, said there have been sporadic cases in the past in which
rapes or other sex crimes were memorialized on videotape. But she said she
is seeing more of them lately.

It does make it easier for us to prosecute when criminals videotape
themselves in the act, she said. But to me, it is a sad commentary on our
society. Videotaping their perversions for sport takes things to different
level. An incredibly ugly level, in my opinion.

Said Meyer: I call these ego crimes, where the criminals memorialize their
deeds on videotape. And yes, he added, we will be seeing more and more of
these.

-- 
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R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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... 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'