Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?
Harmon Seaver wrote: This isn't a ski mask burglary. We KNOW Saddam ruled Iraq. We KNOW what crimes were committed. Simple syllogism. No we don't. We only know what the propaganda mills have told us. Twenty years ago it was a different story. The propaganda mills were working for Saddam, not against him. http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/04/1599076.php Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard - awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff. http://www.techcentralstation.com/041103H.html It appears there is another, more troubling, reason Jordan decided not to report these hideous crimes until the regime was safely out of the way: CNN didn't want to lose its on-the-ground access to a big story. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, and countless Iraqi refugees all report similar stories of widespread torture and murder. Is it your position that these are all propagandists? Dismissing as propaganda any reports that oppose your argument, while accepting as truth any claim that supports it, is simple intellectual dishonesty.
Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)
While I agree with much of what you say I don't think it's likely that any kind of advanced SIGINT operation was what brought him down. The most important thing to have is intelligence from humans. From insiders. This is partly the problem with the intelligence agencies today. They think too much of the technology and it's possible uses. Good old fashion spies will always be the most powerfull way to get information if you can get someone to cooperate. This is also why it is a bit harder in countries with a lot of people willing to kill or be killed for the sake of ideas. Even so it seems that someone sold him for the money in this case. It was bound to happen sooner or later since it's not possible to be on the run without trusting at least one or a few individuals from time to time.
Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19
Here's one younger person who follows cypherpunks very closely. I do not post because I have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Someday, when I've learned enough to be useful, then I will contribute what I can. Tim's postings re:crypto are the most thought-out, insightful writings you could ask for. What is there for a young person to say that has not been said?
Re: Trouble at HavenCo?
Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk? By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 4, 2003, 1:38 PM PT LAS VEGAS--A widely publicized project to transform a platform in the English Channel into a safe haven for controversial Web businesses has failed due to political, technical and management problems, one of the company's founders said. Rely on math, not humans.
Re: Social democrats on our list
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Tim May wrote: Did I invite the public in when an announcement was made for a meeting at my house last September? There were many people I had never met personally, nor even heard of. Nearly all were well-behaved, but what if someone had not been? Were my property rights somehow lost by the fact that I had many to attend that I did not know personally? Could somehow who disrupted the meeting, perhaps even by wearing a Support the War Against Crypto or Buy Alcohol Detectors for Your Car tee-shirts, have claimed that they had some right to remain in my house even after I asked them to leave? Does my right to control my own property vanish when I become a shop or restaurant? How about when I get larger? Renowned cypherpunk Dave Del Torto thinks it does. This is the argument that he was using to try to gain admittance to CodeCon this year, after being blacklisted by the producers due to disturbances at the previous year's CodeCon. Do you mean to say DDT could be wrong about his rights as a member of the public wishing to attend an event open to the public on private property? (Those of us who went were subjected to his rants about being Gandhi vs. Hitler, as he stood in front of the venue for 7 hours, protesting his PNG status. We hear lawsuits are pending.)
