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From: Rotwang on 18 Apr 2008 21:06 a random sample factoid from 2600: although on-site company switches are commonly programmed to block '900' number calls, there is a hole in the programming logic that always lets '555' exchange numbers through. ("Information wants to be free") Companies that advertise 900 numbers take advantage of this. For example, even though you can't dial most 900 numbers, you can still call numbers like USA Today's 1-900-555-5555, which are specifically chosen to get around the 900 programming restrictions. Oh yeah: I remember another one that triggered firm-wide security checks: 2600 described a hole in DOS that could allow others to execute commands on your system by virtue of defining function key contents (F1, F2..) on the fly AND THEN EXECUTING THEM. ] > Cummings apologized to the court for his "odd curiosity" of the past, > insisting that he merely collected books and information and never > caused harm to anyone. His lawyer pleaded with the judge to allow > Cummings to pick up the pieces of his life and not be subjected to > any more inhumane treatment. [ I feel sick upon reading he felt compelled to apologize for books. ] > Judge Panella passed sentence: 6 to 24 months plus a
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2008 21:16 reporting the other student. The principal said "too bad, that's what 'Zero Tolerance' means". The little girl and her mother are shocked. [I am not making these up!!!!!] 6/18/97 NBC News Channel 4 NYC: A career teacher is forced to resign because she thought her student was kidding about having a baggie of pot. Students and parents are stunned. The teacher said she believed her students had better sense than that, and since she inspected it and it smelled like oregano she was sure they were kidding her. Students and their parents protest, the school board asks her back, but she says no, she is too disgusted at her treatment. Zero Tolerance victims, falling into the abyss. State troopers really know their "business": : Robert Fitches, a 22 year-old said in his Federal lawsuit that he was : humiliated when state troopers ordered him to drop his pants during a : drug search along Interstate 15 in Davis County. : Source: Salt Lake City Tribune 7/8/95 Maybe this is an accurate analogy of why dragnet-monitoring is wrong: : The Sheraton Boston Hotel was discovered videotaping employees changing : clothes in locker rooms. The 1991 surveillance caught employees using : drugs, Sheraton said. Source: Senate Labor Committee on Employment, 6/93 If you strip us naked you will detect more crime, but also, you strip individuals naked without specific individuals being suspected of a crime. Dragnet monitoring should not be the American
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 21:21 it was a "health security card"---his slick * name for a national identity card. Under his plan a new National * Health Board would establish "national, unique identifier numbers" * for every single one of us. * * Fortunately, President Bill Clinton's healthcare scam never made it * into law. Sadly, few of the complainers were upset about the potential * for abuse by Big Brother. * * Shortly after being elected, one Clinton advisor promoting the biochip * 'mark' is Dr. Mary Jane England, a member of Hillary Clinton's ill-fated * socialized, national healthcare initiative. Addressing a conference * sponsored by computer giant IBM [IBM's Lotus division takes hand biometrics * of employees who use their childcare facilities] in Palm Springs, * California, in 1994, England not only endorsed the proposed mandatory * national I.D. smart card, but went one scary step further: * * The smart card is a wonderful idea, but even better would be the * capacity to not have a card, and I call it "a chip in your ear," * that would actually access your medical records, so that no matter * where you were, even if you came into an emergency room unconscious, * we would have some capacity to access that medical record. * * We need to go beyond the narrow conceptualization of the smart card * and really use some of the technology that's out there. * * California Governor Pete Wilson has actively stumped for a N
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 22:10 Gawd he didn't become President. * July Fourth, 1997, C-SPAN Congressional Television * * Mark Klaas, father of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, who was murdered by a * repeat-offender that was paroled from prison, said in support of prevention * programs: "Building more prisons to fight crime is like building more * cemeteries to fight the spread of AIDS. It's a bad quick fix. Police * chiefs across the country support [me] this 4 to 1. Unfortunately, Congress * can't act "soft" on crime, and is about to pass a very bad bill on * juvenile crime." More bizarre distortions in our social fabric due to Zero Tolerance: 6/10/97 MSNBC: California: a ten-year-old girl who reported a classmate for having a joint was also suspended by the principal, under the school's Zero Tolerance for drugs policy. Her offense: handling the joint to see if the other student was kidding her before reporting the other student. The principal said "too bad, that's what 'Zero Tolerance' means". The little girl and her mother are shocked. [I am not making these up!!!!!] 6/18/97 NBC News Channel 4 NYC: A career teacher is forced to resign because she thought her student was kidding about having a baggie of pot. Students and parents are stunned. The teacher said she believed her students had better sense than that, and since she inspected it and it smelled like oregano she was sure they were kidding her. Students and their parents protest, the school board asks her back, but she says no, she is too disgusted at her treatment. Zero Tolerance victims, falling into the abyss. State troopers really know their "business": : Robert Fitches, a 22 year-old said in his Federal lawsuit that he was : humiliated when state troopers ordered him to drop his pants during a : drug search along Interstate 15 in Davis County. : Source: Salt Lake City Tribune 7/8/95 Maybe this is an accurate analogy of why dragnet-monitoring is wrong: : The Sheraton Boston Hotel was dis
From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 20:04
take into account # emerging technologies like software that determines if two facial images # belong to the same person, even from composite sketches. Yep. Even using photographs. More on this later. ---- And what does a National ID Card with a Universal Biometric identifier mean? A number (that is: scanned fingerprint or iris) that cannot be faked. Unprecedented possibilities for control of the presumed guilty population. You will be forced to verify yourself for an endlessly ever-growing list of items. * Dr. Linda Thompson: * YOUR STATE IS NEXT AND DON'T THINK OTHERWISE. Sandia and other defense * contractors, without a war elsewhere, are OUT OF WORK, so they're * creating job security for themselves by helping fascists wage war in the * United States on us and our rights!! * * Georgia, Texas and Oregon ALREADY require fingerprints for licenses. > California is already fingerprinting drivers, and many places outside of > the US are creating identity cards with barcoded information. > > Also, AmSouth and Compass Banks will soon introduce fingerprinting of > people who cash checks and have no account with their bank. This is > now standard practice in Texas and will soon be nation-wide. * "Fingerprints Used to Cut Welfare Fraud", by Sandra Blakeslee * The New York Times, April 6 1992 * * Los Angelos is |