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From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:14 last fall. : Then, not long after McLean moved to his current : job, his new boss stood up on the Senate floor : and bashed Pro-CODE in favor of the White : House party line: "The President has put forward : a plan which in good faith attempts to balance : our nation's interests in commerce, security, and : law enforcement." Kerrey has since introduced a bill that parrots the Clinton administration's philosophy: * http://www.cdt.org/crypto/legis_105/mccain_kerrey/analysis.html * * Comparison: Major Features of the Administration and McCain-Kerrey Bills * * Administration Draft* * McCain-Kerrey** [w. section#] * Federal licensing of certificate * authorities(CA) and key recovery * agents * Yes. Yes. [401-404] * * Linkage of CA's and key recovery: * Encryption public key certificates only * issued to users of key recovery * Yes. Yes. [405] * * Export controls codified: 56-bit limit * on encryption exports, no judicial * review. * No. Yes. [301-308] * * Crime for use of encryption in * furtherance of a crime. * Yes. Use of a licensed KRA * is a defense. * Yes. No KRA defense. [104] * * Crime for issuance of a key in * furtherance of a crime. *
From: Marshall on 18 Apr 2008 21:55 May (or his wife), all your traffic --- including phone calls --- gets its own daily summary file regardless of content. That's what I did (for company Internet traffic) when activities made it prudent to put someone on the individual 'watch list'. (For example, "Bob Brain".) ---- Then there was a manager under heavy stress, who was pissed at top management, knew his department had a good chance of getting cut in the next several months, then the talk turned to guns... This was a very long diatribe; only a little is shown here because I got tired re-writing the words so it's not literally their traffic anymore. In email he sounded like a major flake. In person he sounded normal. ***************** BEGIN OF JOBTALK EXCERPT ******************************* An oddity: a Xxxxx Yyyyyyy is getting stressed out by his area's upcoming personnel cuts; he's made a presentation to Mr. Cheese for project ideas that might avoid him being cut. This stress is normal, but suddenly talk about him being a gun-nut came up. It doesn't appear to be a problem, but I
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 18:36 o A member of a violent militia group called 'The Posse' was armed and wholed up: they simply *purposely* set the house on fire. Burned him to death. o Philadelphia police purposely drop an incindiary device on the top of a building housing an armed and holed-up African-American group (men, woman & children) called 'Move'. They burned down the entire neighborhood of 62 homes. 9/28/96 NYT: 1.5 million dollars was awarded to survivors. Eleven men, women and children died in the fire purposely set ("a satchel of explosives") by Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor and Fire Chief William Richmond to open a hole in the building for tear gas delivery. But Pennsylvania state law was ruled to grant them personal immunity from Federal civil rights charges because they were state employees [what???]. The incident occurred in May 1985. o Waco. CS tear gas attack by the FBI using Army tanks. The government, across the decades, keeps managing to burn people to death, rather than bringing them to trial. Often, tear gas is involved. ---- Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge. Persisting, a BATF informant persuaded Weaver, a DECORATED GREEN BERET VETERAN of Vietnam with NO CRIMINAL RECORD, to sell him two shotguns, but insisted that Weaver saw the barrels off one-quarter inch short of the legal limit. Monitoring him, they knew M
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 20:51 * * When something hotter is systemically bound to something cooler, the * greater energy of the hotter stuff migrates---inexorably migrates--- * into the cooler stuff. This is one manifestation of the Second Law of * Thermodynamics, which everyone of education has encountered. * * This is sometimes referred to as 'the universe is running down'. Okay, 'entropy', yeah I remember that kinda. Keep going: Our solar system is a lot of matter that is NOT sitting in a situation of entropy: the sun is radiating heat at the planets. Instead of just matter smoothing out to a common low-energy state, a burning fireball is at work. Cybernetics states that under conditions like this, matter does something special. * "Platform for Change", by Stafford Beer, 1978, ISBN 0 471 06189 1 * * If we have a universe, which is improbable though it exists, it is * because the Second Law of Thermodynamics has two forms. One is concerned * with the pressure to even out energy; that is the form which belongs to * our stereotyped conception of the universe. It betokens death. * * The other form is about information content, which leads to greater * organization and increasing complexity. That form betokens life. What would be a specific example of energy causing matter to be formatted by information, becoming "more complex"? * "The Human Use of Human Beings", by Norbert Wiener * * A light quantum is a very small thing, but it turns out the energy * transfer which is necessary for an effective information coupling * is quite small. * * Thus, for the leaf of a tree, photosynth
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:04
presidential directives (which came out of nowhere) would be used for short-term emergencies. Wrong: the NSA is now a HUGE intelligence organization, eating billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars in budgets each year, and monitoring billions of messages a day. * "Spying Budget Is Made Public By Mistake", By Tim Weiner * The New York Times, November 5 1994 * * By mistake, a Congressional subcommittee has published an unusually * detailed breakdown of the highly classified "black budget" for United * States intelligence agencies. * * In previously defeating a bill that would have made this information * public, the White House, CIA and Pentagon argued that revealing the * secret budget would cause GRAVE DAMAGE to the NATIONAL SECURITY of * the United States. * * $3.1 billion for the CIA * $10.4 billion for the Army, Navy, Air Force * and Marines special-operations units * $13.2 billion for the NSA/NRO/DIA * * The only damage done so far is to the * credibility of those who opposed the measure. There is no constitutional basis for this massive loss of Fourth Amendment rights. It sounds like some wild conspiracy theory, doesn't it? Yet it exists. ****************************************************************************** Secret Court ------ ----- : The Washington Post Magazine, June 23 1996 : Government surveillance, terrorism and the U.S. Constitution: : The story of a Washington courtroom no tourist can visit. : By Jim McGee and Brian |