Integer factorization, etc.
in [Math]
|
From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 22:52 years worldwide over the Internet and from some * companies. Terrorists and other criminals already have it. * * The genie is out of the bottle. * * The only thing the McCain-Kerrey bill does is cripple American companies' * abilities to compete worldwide." As FBI director Louis Freeh said: "We are at a crossroads." Indeed we are. Netscape has had to ink a deal with a German crypto company. Sun has arranged a third-party deal in Europe too. RSA has announced similar plans. It is estimated the U.S. crypto companies and employees will lose four billion dollars by the year 2000. But as you know, there is a larger concern too. The level of our nakedness before the government's massive surveillance systems. * Privacy: Experience, Understanding, Expression * by Orlo Strunk, Jr., 1982, ISBN 0-8191-2688-8 * * I make decisions and commitments on the basis of my own inner subjective * feelings --- not regarding popular opinion or the requirements of social * role very much. I tend to keep the nature of my personal relationships * very private --- I don't bring my family life, love life, etc into public * view. * * When I invite others into my home for social occasions, it means an offer * of great intimacy to me and is not a casual event to be taken lightly. My * possessions and living area are private to me --- that is, very personal. * I feel offended when I find someone has been handling them or looking at * them without invitation. * * I am often offended by information reque
From: Pubkeybreaker on 19 Apr 2008 00:40 At the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide. If the government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence commun- ity has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology... I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no retu
From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 21:22 consumer problem. Yes, the drugs - a HUGE amount of drugs - cross our national borders. But it is being PULLED in, a completely different situation than Military defense of our borders against a FOREIGN enemy. I wonder how it all gets into the country. It's as if it has its own special unmonitored border crossing, where it can drive truck after truck through. And what happens when you bang the drum of hysteria long enough? Bizarre distortions in our social fabric: widespread fear, loathing and suspicion. And: censorship. Tom Petty wins MTV's highest video award, but they always censored the word 'joint' in the video! MTV, the spirit of Rock'N'Roll...not. Maybe they're just doing what they can: they played the word BACKWORDS in the video...a British band was on trial in the U.S. a few years ago charged with putting backward-playing lyrics on their album (acquitted). But it's okay if Jay Leno shows a Clinton look-alike smoking a bong. Drug addicts can't get clean needles, furthering the AIDS epidemic. # "AIDS VIRUS FEEDS ON FEDERAL NEEDLE POLICY" # By Steven Wishnia, High Times Magazine, July 1997 # # No federal action is planned to end the ban on federal funding for needle # exchange programs by the Clinton Administration, despite mounting scienti- # fic evidence that shooting up with unclean needles is the second most # common risk behavior (
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 21:34 sipping a cold one, smoking a warm one, whatever. Relaxed, calm, at peace. You home was still your castle. Peace. Then, during one single day in Congress: o All Americans must allow companies to withdraw fluids from their bodies to check for drugs. Nevermind that that would be a dire last resort and that dignified non-invasive techniques are available for safety-related jobs. o Libraries are checked to see if you are looking at the wrong kind of books. Read the wrong book and the government will call you a 'potential terrorist' in court. o Studies on the feasibility of monitoring all bank transactions in real-time are ordered. ("So we can compute FDIC insurance requirements in real-time") Recommendation to proceed is given by law enforcement. o Loss of rights if you are receiving government benefits: - public housing ordered searched without warrants by the president [A DIRECT VIOLATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION!] - suspicionless searches of cars (NJ, for example) - no California driver's license without fingerprinting, eventually all U.S. citizens are fingerprinted - no welfare benefits (NY for example) without fingerprinting - illegal immigrant kids denied medical care without being reported, meaning they can't go for care. It was quite a Song of Hate California Governor Pete Wilson sung for that cruelty. He
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 21:53
* "We're thrilled," said Los Angelos County Attorney Gil Garcetti. * * State and local law enforcement officials predicted that the court ruling * would prompt a wave of similar legislation across California. * * Because the San Jose City Attorney's office brought action against the * defendants under a civil procedure, the defendants were not guaranteed * the standard protections of criminal law. * * "Liberty unrestrained is an invitation to anarchy," Justice Brown wrote. * * The defendants may not engage in any form of public association: "standing, * sitting, walking, driving, gathering or appearing anywhere in public view" * in the neighborhood, or face 6 months in jail. * * They further may not: "climb trees or fences, make loud noises, possess * wire cutters or marbles [What???], wear particular clothes, make certain * hand signs, or carry marking pens or pagers." The worst-case version of a National ID Card is a biometric-based one. Biometrics means that card is numbered with your fingerprint, or retina scan, or other unique physical characteristic. You would be enumerated. Numbered for all time. * CARROLLTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 1997--Sandia Imaging, a * majority-owned subsidiary of Lasertechnics, Inc. (Nasdaq: LASX) and a * leader in secure card technologies, will premiere the world's first * printer that can personalize, print and encode optical cards in a * single, on-line process, during CardTech/SecurTech '97 in Orlando, FL * from May 19 through 22. * * This new technology significantly streamlines the printing and encoding * process, making highly secure optical cards more efficient and less * costly for use as |