Will Europe Save US from CAPPS II?
Tomorrow, a delegation from the European Union will be arriving for talks with Tom Ridge and other Homeland security officials. On the agenda: CAPPS II. The CAPPS II internal border control system calls for the siphoning of all the information in every travel record and the Europeans are not amused. The Europeans have learned the lessons of history, and have strict privacy laws that prevent wholesale spying on their citizens. They are coming to Washington, DC in order to object to the data CAPPS II would collect on their people. Read the full story and take action now: http://www.dontspyon.us/europe.html 777 --- 777 777 --- 777 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
What You Can Do -Right Now- To Stop CAPPS II
Dear Patriot, For the past seven months, I have been fighting for the right of all Americans to travel freely in our own country. CAPPS II, the Soviet-style internal border control system being pushed by the Department of Homeland Security, will strip us of that right, and make air travel a 'privilege' granted by government. A lot has been accomplished: * Delta was shamed out of testing CAPPS II * Homeland Security was forced to appoint a Chief Privacy Officer * JetBlue was exposed violating the privacy of millions of passengers * JetBlue was shamed out of CAPPS II testing * A pro-CAPPS II 'consumer advocate' was unmasked as a Cendant shill * Galileo/Cendant has backpedaled on CAPPS II I need your help taking this fight forward. Running the anti-CAPPS II campaign costs a lot of time and money. The Boycott Delta and Don't Spy On US websites require a team of graphic artists and web designers. As you can imagine, the bandwidth usage is enormous. The over 40 million dollars in publicity generated for the ongoing anti-CAPPS II awareness campaign came at a cost of hundreds of media interviews, astronomical telephone bills, and all of my time and energy. Up to now, I have funded this project out of my own personal savings. America has been good to me and spending money to keep our country free seemed only fair. Unfortunately, I can't do this alone anymore, which is why I am turning to you for help. To keep up the fight, I need you to contribute to the cause. Whether you can afford $20.00 or $100.00; $50.00 or $1,000.00 , every cent you give makes it possible to keep up the pressure on those who would make our great nation less free. There are two ways you can help fund the fight: 1. Use your credit card and contribute using PayPal: http://dontspyon.us/paypal.html 2. Send a check or money order payable to 'Bill Scannell' in care of my attorneys: The Electronic Frontier Foundation 454 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Together, we can stop CAPPS II. With deepest gratitude, Bill Scannell Founder www.boycottdelta.org www.DontSpyOn.US "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of image.jpg]
DAL Delta Air Lines Boycott Underway
In response to Delta Air Line's utter lack of concern with the privacy of their customers demonstrated by their participation in a test of the CAPPS II system, a Delta disinvestment campaign has been launched at: http://www.boycottdelta.org . The idea of citizens having to undergo a background investigation that includes personal banking information and a credit check simply to travel in his or her own country is invasive and un-American. The CAPPS II system goes far beyond what any thinking citizen of this country should consider reasonable. If enough people refuse to fly Delta, then it is likely that other airlines will refuse to implement this sadly misguided and anti-democratic system. The boycott will remain in full effect until Delta Air Lines publicly withdraws from any involvement with the testing of CAPPS II. Press/Analyst Contact: Bill Scannell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Anyone going to OSS'02?
Yea...these guys know a lot about security. Their registration page at http://www.oss.net/OSS02/eRegistration.cfm has a place for one to fill in credit card details. Note the lack of an 's' after the 'http'. I wrote to them about this and they claim to not have enough money for a cert. Clearly a quality group, these OSS.net humans... Bwa ha ha, Bill Begin Fair Use quote of Greg Newby aka [EMAIL PROTECTED] written on 16.3.02 13:37 : > I'm considering going to OSS'02 (May 8-10 in Rosslyn, VA). > http://www.oss.net/OSS02 > > This is Robert Steele's organization -- he's the guy who > advocates LESS secrecy, and has done some cost analysis of > how keeping stuff secret often hurts intelligence. I saw > him speak at H2K in '2000, and he was super. > > They claim that 6000 spooks from around the world will attend, > and have a pretty interesting program. > > Does anyone know much about this conference? Anyone > go to OSS'01? > > I'm wondering if anyone else in cypherpunk land > is considering going. Maybe we can do a BOF ;-] > > -- Greg > 777 --- 777 777 --- 777 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Chicago Tribune: U.S. using new law on secret evidence
Your Patriot Act at work... Excerpt: "Employing a controversial strategy, the U.S. Justice Department says it plans to use secret evidence to justify the financial sanctions it imposed on a Chicago-area Muslim charity as part of its effort to choke off terrorist funding after Sept. 11." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0203150268mar15.story?col l=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed 777 --- 777 777 --- 777 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Netscape Users: All Your Searches Are Belong To Us
AOL Time Warner's [NTSE:AOL] Netscape unit is snooping on searches performed by users of its latest Navigator browser at Google and other search sites. According to a network traffic analysis performed by Newsbytes, Netscape is capturing Navigator 6 users' search terms, along with their Internet protocol (IP) address, the date Navigator was installed and a unique identification number. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175035.html 777 --- 777 777 --- 777 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Jay Dyson Calls John Gilmore a "stubborn old fool"
If we had just a few more 'fools' like John in this country, it might not suck as much as it does at present. -Bill Virus Borrows Internet Pioneer's Server To Spread By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 06 Mar 2002, 9:46 AM CST A server operated by Internet pioneer John Gilmore is being used by a new Internet worm to perform its mass-mailing routine, according to virus researchers. The address of the server, Toad. COM, is one of 25 open mail relays hard-coded by its unidentified author into the W32.Yaha worm, according to analyses by anti-virus firms Symantec and Sophos. While most of the open servers are located in China and Korea, Toad. COM is a system installed in Gilmore's home in San Francisco. Besides co-founding the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Cypherpunks cryptography discussion list, Gilmore takes credit for helping establish the "alt" Usenet discussion groups. Last March, Gilmore's Internet service provider, Verio, threatened to cut off his service unless he secured Toad. COM so that it could not be used by third parties to relay junk e-mail or "spam." Since its discovery around Valentine's Day, Yaha, also known as "Valscr," has wormed its way past Nimda, Hybris and Funlove to the number eight position on the current list of virus threats tracked by managed e-mail provider MessageLabs. Symantec has assigned Yaha a level-2 risk rating. The worm arrives with a subject line, "Melt the Heart of your Valentine with this beautiful screen saver." It comes with an attachment named "valentin.scr." If executed, the attachment will install the worm and unleash its only payload: mass-mailing copies of infected messages to addresses in the Windows address book and e-mail addresses found in cached HTML files on the victim's hard disk. Gilmore, a life member of the Libertarian party, has accused Verio of censorship and said he configured the mail server to accept and forward e-mail from anyone in part so that friends could use it while traveling around the world. Gilmore was not immediately available for comment. According to Gilmore's Web site, Verio agreed last August not to terminate his service if he modified his mailer software to avoid forwarding large quantities of e-mail from single addresses over short periods of time. Jay Dyson, a security consultant with California-based Treachery Unlimited, confirmed that Toad. COM remains "a wide-open relay." According to Dyson, numerous methods exist for authenticating whether users are authorized to relay mail through a server. "I think Gilmore is being a stubborn old fool for leaving his mail systems as open relays," he said. Gilmore's home page is http://www.toad.com/gnu/ . Symantec's description of Yaha is at http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Sophos's write-up is at http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32yahaa.html . The MessageLabs Threat List is at http://www.messagelabs.com/viruseye/threatlist.asp . Reported by Newsbytes, http://www.newsbytes.com . 09:46 CST Reposted 10:18 CST (20020306 /WIRES ONLINE, BUSINESS, PC, ASIA, LEGAL/WORM/PHOTO) ) 2001 The Washington Post Company 777 --- 777 777 --- 777 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Doubleclick and DartMail 3.5
Reuters is running a story on a new spam product from Doubleclick...anyone know anything more about this? -Bill http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=ZEADEHWVRZ10QCRBAEZSFFA KEEATIIWD?type=technologynews&StoryID=629760 777 --- 777 777 --- 777 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Black Hat 2002
Jeff Moss' PR flack asked me to forward this to the list. I suggest that anyone planning on presenting anything remotely contraversial bear in mind the pathetic lack of any help or assistance Jeff 'Dark Tangent' Moss provided to Dmitry after Dmitry's arrest by FBI agents at last year's DefCon. -Bill - -- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 19:22:06 -0500 From: B.K. DeLong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Orig-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can you forward this? Bill - Can you forward this to the cypherpunks list? I think there's a lot of people out there who will make great speakers. Thanks. - Well folks, it's about that time. I hope to see several list members either speak at, or attend the show: Papers and presentations are now being accepted for the Black Hat Briefings 2002 conference. The conference is held from July 31-August 1, 2002 at the Caesars Palace Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas, NV, USA. Papers and requests to speak will be received and reviewed until May 1, 2002. Please read the full announcement at: http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-02/bh-usa-02-cfp.html -- B.K. DeLong [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.877.3271 http://www.brain-stream.com Play. http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org Potter. http://www.attrition.org Security. http://www.artemisiabotanicals.comHerb.
The Worst-Written PR Spam Message of All Time
-- Forwarded Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:09:47 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RSA Conference Security is fundamental. Boards of directors across the U.S. should be looking to implement technology to ensure they are not exposed in the way both Andersen and Enron are currently. We would like to request some of your time at the forthcoming RSA show to brief you on the latest technology, which is becoming the top priority at every public company board. Contact: Leslie Cave Marketing Communications Manager 800 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02199 617-598-2123 www.towertech.com www.webcapture.biz -- End of Forwarded Message
Re: Attn: SF CP's
No, 'cause you're a Fed. On 02.2.02 11:54, Xenu allowed "D B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to write: > Any SF,CA CP's care to show a Pittsburgh guy around > this weekend? > Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! > http://auctions.yahoo.com > ··· --- ··· ··· --- ··· "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
The Joys of Entourage Rules
Hey kids! Microsoft -can- do something effectively. Using the 'rules' tool, one can easily plonk special-ed short bus passenger mattd as well as all emanations from Choate Prime into the 'deleted items' folder. Defeat Means Extinction, -Bill -- -Say goodbye, George... "Goodbye, George." Out The Door In 2K4!
Dmitry's Farewell Hack
Hey kids, Dmitry and his lawyer got his now-infamous Defcon presentation exposing Adobe's pathetic attempts at eBook security read into his pre-trial agreement. The agreement, available from Ashcroft Central in PDF format, can be downloaded at: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/can/press/assets/applets/2001_12_13_sklyarov.pdf Somehow, I think that as soon as his plane clears US air space the only words of assistance the US Attorney is going to from him will consist of 'bite' and 'me'. -Bill 777 --- 777 777 --- 777 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Re: Waxing celebrities
The fact that all four whore for the Kriminal Kult of Scientology has of course nothing to do with anything... Begin Fair Use quote of mattd aka [EMAIL PROTECTED] written on 27.11.01 09:15 : > What do tom cruise,jenna elfman,john travolta and kirsty alley need that > only we can supply? > > Talk about a 'sweet spot' for well armed paparazzi.They also fly a lot."Id > buy that for a dollar" > > "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable > that we have to alter it every six months." > 777 --- 777 777 --- 777 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
AL Digital Acquires Second Nuclear Bunker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AL Digital Acquires Second Nuclear Bunker Doubles Space Available for Security of Computer Assets London, UK (1 October 2001) AL Digital (Telecommunications), Ltd., a leading provider of secure computer hosting and owner of The Bunker, today announced the purchase of a second nuclear bunker from the Ministry of Defence. The terms were undisclosed. This second bunker now known as The Other Bunker will effectively double the space available for the secure storage and hosting of Britain's digital economic assets. Located northeast of London, The Other Bunker will undergo retrofitting before being deployed as a computer co-location facility. The Bunker and The Other Bunker were designed and built during the Cold War as physically secure communications centres. Both offer the ultimate in protection from a myriad of attacks including; crackers, terrorist attack, electro-magnetic pulse, HERF weapons, electronic eavesdropping and solar flares. The rate of firms moving into The Bunker has accelerated dramatically in recent weeks, creating the need for additional secure computing space in the UK. "Increased demand has caused us to move forward our timetable ," said AL Digital Director Dominic Hawkin. "The Other Bunker needs to be open for business sooner than we planned." The Other Bunker is scheduled to have its first client servers installed by mid-2002. The storage capacity of the The Bunker will be able to absorb the needs of the market until that time. ENDS About The Bunker and The Other Bunker The Bunker is redefining the market for secure hosting. The facility provides the physically secure environment needed to protect digitally secure data. All the encryption in the world can't stop a server from being stolen, sabotaged or destroyed: The Bunker does. For more information, visit The Bunker web site at http://www.thebunker.net About AL Digital A.L Digital design, develop, deploy and run computing systems. These range from sophisticated software applications, to online stores, to custom designed hardware. For more information, visit AL Digital's web site at http://www.aldigital.co.uk Contact: Bill Scannell The Bunker, Ltd. ++44 (20) 8742 5902 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.1 iQA/AwUBO7giZfUhQXH5dzNXEQKIQwCgp/NVeSk/I4Spw1FlGVKaRQrU7q4AoM09 TXtxLaFmMtZa1zKA+rQutYu6 =c0pE -END PGP SIGNATURE-
FW: Registration Request for boycottoracle.com Received.
FYI. -Bill 777 --- 777 777 --- 777 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin -- Forwarded Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:35:02 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Registration Request for boycottoracle.com Received. **Do not respond to this auto-generated email** If you need to contact us, go to: http://www.domainmonger.com/support.htm William Scannell, Congratulations! Registration of the domain name boycottoracle.com is complete! As requested, your domain will be registered for 1 year(s). If this is a Transfer, a confirmation email will be sent to the current admin email of record. You must follow the directions given in the email ASAP. Your current Registrar may send a second confirmation email to the admin email of record. Read the instructions carefully, they can be confusing. The transfer process takes about a week. If you are not sure what the admin email is, check the Whois on our site: http://www.domainmonger.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi Below you will find a summary of your domain name registration information. If you have any questions regarding your domain name registration, please go to: http://www.domainmonger.com/support.html Thank you for your order. -- End of Forwarded Message
Newsflash! Sklyarov Denied Access To Russian Consul
I just got off the telephone with Vladimir Katalov. Katalov informs me that the Russian embassy has been denied access to Dmitry Sklyarov, a flagrant violation of international law. No Russian consular official has spoken to Sklyarov since his detention earlier this week. In addition, Sklyarov's wife and two children have not heard from their husband and father since his arrest. They are understandably worried sick for his safety. It is believed Dmitry Sklyarov is being held in solitary confinement. As an American who honorably served in the armed forces, I am ashamed for the actions of my government. This cannot stand. Telephone numbers: US State Department: 1-202-647-6575 Russian Embassy: 1-202-298-5700 Russian Consul (SF) 1-415928-6878 Call. Get your friends to call. Call again. Please disseminate this information as widely as possible. -Bill
