Create a PAYCHECK with your COMPUTER

[Jay77_info]

Good morning, -

You get emails every day, offering to show you how to make money.
Most of these emails are from people who are NOT making any money.
And they expect you to listen to them?

Enough.

If you want to make money with your computer, then you should
hook up with a group that is actually DOING it.  We are making
a large, continuing income every month.  What's more - we will
show YOU how to do the same thing.

This business is done completely by internet and email, and you
can even join for free to check it out first.  If you can send
an email, you can do this.  No special "skills" are required.

How much are we making?  Anywhere from $2000 to $9000 per month.
We are real people, and most of us work at this business part-time.
But keep in mind, we do WORK at it - I am not going to 
insult your intelligence by saying you can sign up, do no work,
and rake in the cash.  That kind of job does not exist.  But if
you are willing to put in 10-12 hours per week, this might be
just the thing you are looking for.

This is not income that is determined by luck, or work that is
done FOR you - it is all based on your effort.  But, as I said,
there are no special skills required.  And this income is RESIDUAL -
meaning that it continues each month (and it tends to increase
each month also).

Interested?  I invite you to find out more.  You can get in as a
free member, at no cost, and no obligation to continue if you
decide it is not for you.  We are just looking for people who still
have that "burning desire" to find an opportunity that will reward
them incredibly well, if they work at it.

To grab a FREE ID#, simply reply to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and in the body of the email, write this phrase:
 
"Grab me a free membership!"

Be sure to include your:
1. First name
2. Last name
3. Email address (if different from above)

We will confirm your position and send you a special report
as soon as possible, and also Your free Member Number.

That's all there's to it.

We'll then send you info, and you can make up your own mind.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely, 

Jay Jandrey

P.S. After having several negative experiences with network
marketing companies I had pretty much given up on them.
This is different - there is value, integrity, and a
REAL opportunity to have your own home-based business...
and finally make real money on the internet.

Don't pass this up..you can sign up and test-drive the
program for FREE.  All you need to do is get your free
membership.

Unsubscribing: Send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
"Remove" in the subject line.
















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Harpies Bizarre.

[Matthew X]

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=200017&group=webcast
KATHERINE HARRIS SAYS PALAST 'TWISTED AND MANIACAL' - in July Harper's
Harper's Magazine
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
E-Mail Article
Printer Friendly Version


Have I upset Kate? Darn. The Florida Secretary of State has sent me a 
heartfelt billet-doux in time for my birthday. Twisted and maniacal? I 
won't deny it. Most important, she doesn't say I was wrong: her office sent 
out lists of 57,700 voters - most of them black, almost all of them 
innocent, to remove from the voter rolls. Harris' letter, despite its 
berserker tone, is in fact an astonishing confession. Read it all in this 
month's Harper's Magazine, along with my reply.

Ms Harris begins:
�Greg Palast's Annotation ["Ex-Con Game," March]
distorts and misrepresents the events surrounding the 2000 presidential 
election in Florida in order to support his twisted and maniacally partisan 
conclusions. To the chagrin of responsible journalists everywhere, Palast's 
effort implodes under the slightest scrutiny, owing to his abject failure 
to check the accuracy of his facts.�

Katherine Harris does not deny the central allegations of my Annotation: 
that her office ordered 57,700 Florida citizens be removed from the voter 
rolls, despite the knowledge that many, if not most, of these citizens were 
innocent of all crimes. Rather, she delegates the blame: state law forced 
her to hire a private firm that compiled this racially corrosive hit list. 
The Florida secretary of state may cite the law to the fourth decimal, but 
her interpretation of it-that her office was to provide county officials a 
list of "potentially ineligible voters"-is chilling. The law required that 
Harris's office provide a list "identifying" voters who had been convicted 
of a felony and that it contract with a private entity only to "meet its 
obligations" under the requirement. Maybe by "potentially" ineligible 
voters she means thousands like Thomas Cooper, whom her office lists as 
having been convicted of a felony in the year 2007.

The documents amusingly labeled "Secret"-thank you, Ms. Harris; as a 
reporter I am well versed in the Sunshine Laws-indicate that payment to her 
contractor depended specifically on "manual verification using telephone 
calls." Despite numerous requests from Harper's Magazine and the BBC, 
Harris has never explained why the private firm was paid millions for this 
work that was not done. Harris's apocryphal claim that county officials 
asked to take over this expensive work counters both the correspondence in 
her files and my own conversations with the county election supervisors.

Even if she wrongly took away the rights of innocent voters, Harris 
contends, mistakes on the voter rolls favored Al Gore. This odd defense is 
founded on her claim that, according to the Palm Beach Post, "thousands of 
felons voted." But the Post's conclusions were based on data used by 
Harris, with even sloppier methods of verification than hers. Because 
Harris's list was hopelessly flawed, some counties refused to remove voters 
from their rolls; therefore, thousands of her "ex-felons" did vote. After 
the 2000 election, Florida's attorney general promised to arrest any 
ineligible voter who had gone to the polls, a criminal offense in Florida. 
So far, the Harris and Post lists have produced, he says, fewer than half a 
dozen cases, out of thousands accused.

The Annotation's most damning accusation, from the view of civil rights 
lawyers, is that the state purged ex-convicts who had their right to vote 
restored by other states. Rather than deny the charge, Harris claims that 
she was required to do so by a letter from Governor Jeb Bush's Office of 
Executive Clemency. Oops! Harris has just blown Jeb's alibi. His office, as 
I mention in the Annotation, assured me that no such letter exists. Indeed, 
Bush's office produced a letter dated February 23, 2001, with a position 
opposite Harris's.

Regardless of where Harris seeks to shift the blame, her office clearly did 
wrong. The NAACP has filed suit over the voter purges uncovered by our BBC 
and Guardian reports. NAACP v Harris goes to trial in August. Katherine, if 
you've got an alibi for operating a Jim Crow election operation, tell it to 
the judge.
MORE ON
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=200017&group=webcast

Re: Discouraging credential sharing with Mojo

[J. R. Valverde]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:10:33 -0500
Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Some credential issuing schemes, such as those from Brands as well as from
> Camenisch & Lysyanskaya, try to avoid credential sharing by embedding
> into the credential some secret which is important and valuable to the
> credential holder.  Then if the credential is shared, the recipient
> learns the important secret, to the detriment of the person sharing
> the credential.  So he won't do it.
> 
> The problem is that there don't seem to be any secrets that will work
> well in discouraging sharing.  The most obvious is a credit card number,
> but this has a number of problems: some people don't have credit cards;
> people could cancel their credit cards after receiving the credentia;
> and underground hackers have access to thousands of stolen credit card
> numbers that they don't mind sharing.
> 
Leaving aside the irony aspects of the original post...

The actual problem is of a more practical nature: how can you asses that
something is truly valuable to a person and do it in mass production?

Diogenes the cynic would not depend on anything but himself. Descartes
started by not trusting even his own, himself... A kamikaze will spare
his own life for the Emperor. Now again, how can anybody define what is
valuable to a given person without thoroughly knowing him/her in depth?
And how do you ever know you know someone at all?

> Clearly we need a new approach.  Here is a suggestion for a simple
> solution which will give everyone an important secret that they will
> avoid sharing.
> 
> At birth each person will be issued a secret key.  This will be called
> his Mojo.  He will also get the associated public key which will assist
> in protocols which involve commiting to his Mojo.  The public key can
> be revealed but the Mojo should be kept secret at all costs.
> 
Then again, there are abundant examples of fathers giving out their
childs for whatever they thought was "common good" or even their
own personal interests.

Actually, under a more prosaic (like starvation) pressure, the most common 
human strategy is to give precedent access to food to the parent that does
bring the food in. That's only sensible: feeding your kids in preference will
starve the producer parent and reduce likelyhood of getting more food in,
therefore it is better to have your own kids hungry than to kill the whole
family.

> Then in a credential issuing protocol, the user embeds his Mojo into
> his credential in a provable way.  It is important that the protocol
> not reveal the Mojo to the issuer, but rather that some kind of zero
> knowledge proof be used so that the issuer is confident that sharing
> the credential will reveal the Mojo.
> 
And then you have the Mojo of a newborn stealing the Federal Reserve.
Or the Mojo of some fanatic who doesn't care. Or that of an outcast 
who doesn't live by the stablishmen's rules anyway. Or that of a 
fugitive no one knows where is. Or a fake Mojo issued by a corrupt
Mojo issuer in the Federal Mojo Issuing Agency. Or a fake Mojo of
an spy. Or that of a dead person whose death has not been reported.
Or that of a missing person from your petty dictatorship. Or the Mojo
of a newborn stolen/faken by the Doctor at delivery...

> Now all that is needed is a simple change to the law so that knowing
> someone's Mojo makes him your slave.
> 
Ditto, what use is it having a slave you can't locate, or death ten
years ago, or even worst, a kamikaze suiciding against you? Technology is
done by human beings -limited as any peer- and  thus is limited by its
conceiver's limitations. Either you give technologues God-like status
and trust (and God save you then) or you can't trust it anymore you
would trust the person him/herself.

This is the actual message that needs to be conveyed to everyone: there
is no technology that will make your life safe. In the end you always
have to deal somehow with the Real World yourself. Anyone selling you
that a given technology can give you full security on anything at all is
actually selling snake oil.

The only secure thing in Life is Death.

j

-- 
These opinions are mine and only mine. Hey man, I saw them first!

Josi R. Valverde

De nada sirve la Inteligencia Artificial cuando falta la Natural

10 psychiatric facts.

[Matthew X]

PSYCHIATRY IN THE AGE OF REASON (1750-1995): 10 FACTS

1. Black slaves who ran away from their "duties" were deemed by psychiatry 
to be mentally "ill". The psychiatric "illness" was known as "drapetomania".

2. Irascibility or impertinence on the part of a black slave was deemed by 
psychiatry to be a mental "illness". The psychiatric "condition" was known 
as "dysthaesia Aethiopica".

3. Psychiatrists were originally known in the 18th century as "alienists"; 
"mental patients" were originally known as "aliens".

4. Single mothers were once deemed by psychiatry to be "insane". As a 
result, single mothers were incarcerated for, in certain instances, a large 
number of years in psychiatric hospitals.

5. Girls who had sexual intercourse under the legal age of consent were 
once deemed by psychiatry to be mentally "ill".

6. Psychiatry in Nazi Germany in the 1930's and 1940's effectively killed 
more than 200,000 "mental patients" in the name of social and political 
progress.

7. Epilepsy was once regarded by psychiatric orthodoxy as a mental "illness".

8. In the communist Soviet Union, certain political dissidents were deemed 
by Russian psychiatry to be mentally "ill". These dissidents were 
incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals for their psychiatric condition.

9. Homosexuality was once regarded by western psychiatric orthodoxy as a 
mental "illness".

10. For psychiatric orthodoxy all voice hearing is a sign of "madness".

Schneier: Homeland Security Needs Cops

[John Young]

In the September Atlantic Monthly Bruce Schneier explains
yet again why cryptography is not the solution to security;
what's needed are private cyber cops like his:

  http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/mann.htm

Amazing how Bruce's philosopy matches that of those
he once combated in the "crypto wars." He recants crypto
security to remind that there is never to be found lasting
security, as with the TLAs worldwide, except by well-paid
vigilance of those who know best how to protect us. He 
may be right, or he may smell Starbucks.

Quote:

When I asked Schneier why Counterpane had such Darth
Vaderish command centers, he laughed and said it
helped to reassure potential clients that the company had
mastered the technology. I asked if clients ever inquired
how Counterpane trains the guards and analysts in the
command centers. "Not often," he said, although that
training is in fact the center of the whole system. Mixing
long stretches of inactivity with short bursts of frenzy,
the work rhythm of the Counterpane guards would have
been familiar to police officers and firefighters
everywhere. As I watched the guards, they were slurping
soft drinks, listening to techno-death metal, and waiting
for something to go wrong. They were in a protected
space, looking out at a dangerous world. Sentries around
Neolithic campfires did the same thing. Nothing better
has been discovered since. Thinking otherwise, in
Schneier's view, is a really terrible idea. 

Unquote

Heroes, by god, what we need are more poster boy heroes.

Welcome to Amerika: precrime squads

[Major Variola (ret)]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1548489

Aug. 25, 2002, 10:00PM

   Delaware police compile database of
   future suspects

   Associated Press

   WILMINGTON, Del. -- Police in Delaware are
trying to get a
   head-start on cracking crimes before they
happen by setting up a
   database that contains a list of people who
officers believe are likely
   to break the law.

   Defense attorneys and the American Civil
Liberties Union oppose
   the database, which lists names, addresses
and photographs of the
   potential suspects -- many of whom have clean
slates.

   The precise grounds for putting a person on
the list aren't clear. But
   since the system was introduced in Wilmington
in June, most of the
   200 people included in the file have been
minorities from poor,
   high-crime neighborhoods.

   State and federal prosecutors say the tactic
is legal, but defense
   lawyers object to the practice.

   "We should enforce the existing laws, but not
violate them, to catch
   the bad guys," said Theo Gregory, City
Councilman and public
   defender. "We've become the bad guys, and
that's not right."

   Mayor James Baker called the criticism
"asinine and intellectually
   bankrupt."

   "I don't care what anyone but a court of law
thinks," he said. "Until a
   court says otherwise, if I say it's
constitutional, it's constitutional."

   The pictures are being taken by two
Wilmington police squads
   created in June to arrest drug dealers. The
units are known in some
   neighborhoods as "jump-out squads" because
they jump out of cars
   and make quick arrests.

   Many of the people whose photos have been
taken for the file were
   stopped briefly for loitering and let go.

Re: Welcome to Amerika: precrime squads

[Bill Stewart]

Sounds like libel to me.

So there's a published list, even if it's only published to cops,
saying "This person is likely to commit a crime".
Leave aside the obvious civil liberties issues for the moment -
this seems like simple libel to me.  At least for the Usual Suspects
who haven't yet been arrested for things, this doesn't sound like
investigation of a crime or other legitimate police function that's
protected by laws protecting government officials doing their official jobs.
Of course, most of the people on the list probably don't have the
resources to fight that kind of libel suit, but it'd be fun to get
the ACLU or some other pro bono support for it.

Create a PAYCHECK with your COMPUTER

[Karen_at_home8868u60]

Greetings -

You get emails every day, offering to show you how to make money.
Most of these emails are from people who are NOT making any money.
And they expect you to listen to them?

Enough.

If you want to make money with your computer, then you should
hook up with a group that is actually DOING it.  We are making
a large, continuing income every month.  What's more - we will
show YOU how to do the same thing.

This business is done completely by internet and email, and you
can even join for free to check it out first.  If you can send
an email, you can do this.  No special "skills" are required.

How much are we making?  Below are a few examples.  These are
real people, and most of them work at this business part-time.
But keep in mind, they do WORK at it - I am not going to 
insult your intelligence by saying you can sign up, do no work,
and rake in the cash.  That kind of job does not exist.  But if
you are willing to put in 10-12 hours per week, this might be
just the thing you are looking for.

N. Gallagher: $3000 per month
T. Hopkins: $1000 per month
S. Johnson: $6000 -$7000 per month
V. Patalano: $2000 per month
M. South: $5000 per month
J. Henslin: $7000 per month 

This is not income that is determined by luck, or work that is
done FOR you - it is all based on your effort.  But, as I said,
there are no special skills required.  And this income is RESIDUAL -
meaning that it continues each month (and it tends to increase
each month also).

Interested?  I invite you to find out more.  You can get in as a
free member, at no cost, and no obligation to continue if you
decide it is not for you.  We are just looking for people who still
have that "burning desire" to find an opportunity that will reward
them incredibly well, if they work at it.

To grab a FREE ID#, simply reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and write this (exact) phrase:  "Grab me a free membership!"
Be sure to include your:
1. First name
2. Last name
3. Email address (if different from above)

We will confirm your position and send you a special report
as soon as possible, and also Your free Member Number.

That's all there's to it.

We'll then send you info, and you can make up your own mind.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely, 

Karen Robinson

P.S. After having several negative experiences with network
marketing companies I had pretty much given up on them.
This is different - there is value, integrity, and a
REAL opportunity to have your own home-based business...
and finally make real money on the internet.

Don't pass this up..you can sign up and test-drive the
program for FREE.  All you need to do is get your free
membership.

Unsubscribing: Send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  with
"Remove" in the subject line.
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NAI completes its transition to the Dark Side

[Meyer Wolfsheim]

After attempting to kill PGP, NAI is now working on "big brother in a
box".

From: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-955392.html?tag=fd_top


Security company Network Associates said Monday that it had purchased a
small start-up whose software lets corporations and others "wiretap" their
computer networks.

[...]


While the system could easily be used to track unauthorized uploads to a
network--uploads by hackers, for instance--it could also be used to tap
e-mail, printing jobs, instant messaging discussions and even
voice-over-IP phone calls.

"It is completely transparent to the user," said England, who envisions
companies using the software to see what is going on around their network
and the government using it to investigate employees and hackers. While
Network Associates hasn't approached law enforcement agencies yet, the
network-tapping software could add considerable teeth to the FBI's own
network-tapping program, known as DCS-1000 or, formerly, as "Carnivore."

[...]

-MW-

E-Bay-Coase-Hi Fibre capitalism.

[Matthew X]

http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/24/1030052995912.html
Internet trading helps purge a blocked system
By Charles Wright
August 27 2002
Next
No doubt it will take the Nobel Prize committee a decade or more to 
recognise the significance of the latest piece of research from The Edge 
laboratories, which has led us to the formulation of Wright's Theory of 
Economic Constipation.
This theory assumes that the economy, like the human intestinal tract, can 
suffer from the equivalent of muscular dysfunction, which can result in 
irregular movement of material through the system, leading to unhealthy 
compaction and systemic failure.
The Edge believes that we are going through precisely this painful 
interruption at the moment.
The healthy movement of partially digested material through the system has 
been blocked, so that rather than being adequately, umm, processed, it has 
been backing up in the nation's attics, spare rooms and garages.
Unfortunately, due to an inappropriate emphasis on intake and inadequate 
understanding of the importance of healthy digestion of previously ingested 
material - for the benefit of the lay person, we shall refer to this as 
"the second-hand market" - the system is placed under further strain by the 
ingestion of yet more new stuff.
Although we have not yet identified all the causes of this painful 
disruption, we are pretty certain that the main irritant is advertising.
Advertising produces an artificial need to consume new material but it does 
not stimulate the economic digestive processes that would move older 
material through the economic digestive tract.
The situation has become much more critical, of course, because the nature 
of the modern economy has resulted in increased production without a 
corresponding increase in jobs. Jobs are the enzymes of the economic 
digestive tract and without them we risk total break-down of the financial 
system.
No scientific breakthrough - not even those in the so-called dismal science 
- is made in a vacuum. And The Edge acknowledges a debt to eBay but we have 
concerns about some auction practices on the site.
We first began to appreciate that eBay was not so much an online auction 
site as an economic, umm, bowel, when the owner of the local second-hand 
bookshop revealed that he was finding it increasingly difficult to find stock.
"People have started selling them," he explained, "on eBay."
"Good idea," we thought, and promptly logged on and bought some. What we 
discovered was that eBay has produced an entirely new industry, which is 
turning the contents of those attics, spare rooms and garages into gross 
domestic product and export earnings, providing income and employment for a 
growing number of people.
Take, for instance, 13-year-old Aiden McIlduff. It would possibly be 
misleading to describe young Aiden as an Internet entrepreneur but, in a 
modest way, that's what he is. Better, perhaps, to call him an eBay 
entrepreneur.
Aiden was introduced to eBay by one of his mother's friends who, like an 
increasing number of people, had developed a small, but healthy business 
selling second-hand clothing on eBay.
Because his mother was able to source cheap books through her job as a 
sales representative for a publishing company, he started selling books.
Then he bought some watches and auctioned them for a profit. He won a 
colouring competition. The prize went up on eBay. So did a digital camera. 
He did some wheeling and dealing on some Game Boy games, and sold them - 
and the Game Boy. These days, Aiden is saving to buy some shares and, 
later, real estate. He reads The Financial Review and the property section.
Joshua Gans, professor of management and information economics at Melbourne 
Business School, sees eBay as an important breakthrough in the problems of 
transaction costs - the concept identified by a previous Nobel Prize 
winner, Ronald Coase - which inhibit social efficiency. Transaction costs 
are a key figure in the development of companies.
According to Coase, firms are created because the additional cost of 
organising them is cheaper than the transaction costs involved when 
individuals conduct business with each other using the market.
The development of eBay removes the firm's entrenched advantage over the 
individual, and Gans, who was astonished to be able to sell a Palm III on 
eBay for only slightly less than the value of a new unit, sees it as a 
promising step.
"When you unlock all these things in people's closets, each one is real 
gross domestic product. It won't turn up in the GDP figures but it's really 
what it's all about. It's much better to unlock the value of an existing 
product than to manufacture a new one."
The Edge sees it as the economic equivalent of eating fresh fruit and 
vegetables. We could end the global recession overnight. And if you have 
any second-hand mystery novels for sale, we'd be happy to buy them.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Chaum's unpatented ecash scheme

[Jason Holt]

[...]
>> Speaking of anonymous, you should give credit in your paper to Anonymous
>> for discovering the possibility of marking Lucre coins, in a coderpunks
>> posting at
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/coderpunks@toad.com/msg02186.html, and for
>> inventing the Type II Defence, both in the posting above and amplifed
>> at http://www.mail-archive.com/coderpunks@toad.com/msg02323.html.
>> 
>> It may seem pointless to credit anonymous postings, but it makes the
>> historical record more clear.
>
> Anonymous _is_ creditted, but I can add the specific URLs.
[...]

I've got a paper ready to publish that uses this technique for digital
credentials.  It'll be nice to have it at least referenced in the literature,
since Ben's paper is the only place I know of where it's really explained.  I
give a URL for it as well as credit to Anonymous, but it would be helpful to
know who really should be credited with what.

I'm listing it as Laurie's method since he wrote the Lucre paper, but
I haven't been able to tell how much David Wagner had to do with the idea.  
Ben?  David? The URLs to the Anon messages are handy; I'll see about including
them too.

-J

Sheik: Homeland Security Needs Cops.

[Matthew X]

"this past spring the Bush Administration cut by 93 percent the funds 
requested by the Energy Department to bolster security for nuclear weapons 
and waste; it denied completely the funds requested by the Army Corps of 
Engineers for guarding 200 reservoirs, dams, and canals, leaving fourteen 
large public-works projects with no budget for protection. A recommendation 
by the American Association of Port Authorities that the nation spend a 
total of $700 million to inspect and control ship cargo (today less than 
two percent of container traffic is inspected) has so far resulted in 
grants of just $92 million."
ALSO
A top norte americano security geek thinks most US companies are run by 
sexually repressed men like robert Hanssen who can be easily compromised,SEE...
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/mann.htm
Our next planejacking on a commercial may need more people esp caucs and 
shaped charges.
The americans have extremely short and permanently ductile appendages effendi.

Re: Welcome to Amerika: precrime squads

[Matthew X]

Sounds like a business opportunity for our good fiend PTrei.

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The $7 million hack (was re: [dgc.chat] Crowne Gold Update)

[R. A. Hettinga]

--- begin forwarded text


Status: RO
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:14:44 -0400
From: Sean Trainor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [dgc.chat] Crowne Gold Update
To: GoldMoney List Server <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Crowne Gold

To all for worldwide delivery.


Update: Crowne Gold

I wanted to brief the Gold community on the situation at Crowne Gold and
apologize for the delay in coming back on-line after recent events.
Crownes staff is available and working even though servers have not been
accessible.   Heres a brief overview of what happened and where we are:

Crowne Gold was attacked by hackers who attempted to hijack U.S. $7 million
but failed.  They failed in part because members of the digital gold
community quickly offered assistance to thwart their assault.  The level of
cooperation was excellent.

Hackers managed to breach part of the Crowne Gold system due to a
key-logging program not recognized by the most up-to-date anti-virals that
came in attached to an email directed to a customer service person.  The
email was sent and received outside the normal encrypted email system
provided within the Crowne Gold program.  This was not a frontal attack on
the server but rather a carefully orchestrated process that engaged direct
email interaction between the hackers (under alias) and a customer service
person from their own workstation.

By getting an administrator to respond directly to email, the hackers
gained access to a computer half a world away from the front-end server and
eventually captured administrative logons.  The primary server system was
not attacked until Carnival was in full swing in the Caribbean from
whence Crowne Gold customer service functions are provided.  When it was
discovered that hackers had penetrated the system, IP addresses were put
under trace and the information gained was submitted to Interpol.

Crowne elected to shutdown servers including front-end, back-up, and double
mirror-backup systems in order to ascertain the extent of the penetration.
Even the customer service network was shutdown until IT personnel arrived
on site and made changes to secure these normally benign networks.

The hackers were both clever and to some extent lucky, on the other hand,
and as already pointed out, they failed to make even a single dollar out of
the entire exercise.  However, we have been led to believe that they have
attempted to blackmail other digital gold providers based on their ability
to force the temporary shutdown of Crowne Gold.

So where are we now?

As you may be aware, Crowne Gold absorbed the former 3PGold whose front-end
server was located at Havenco at the Principality of Sealand.  Havenco is
physically secure but when the hackers accessed Crowne Golds equipment at
the Havenco server farm, there was no one on location at Havenco to support
the several IT persons on the Crowne Gold side who desperately needed on
site assistance.   It took several days for Havenco staff to respond to
calls for assistance and then it became immediately apparent that those in
communication were nowhere near the actual Havenco platform.   Hence
Havenco is now a backup server in the new server structure, at least until
Havenco is able to provide 24/7 support on-site.

Considerable changes have been made which required the server systems to
remain down longer than we would have liked but safe rather than sorry
has been pretty much the by-line of the entire event.   There are a host of
technology enhancements now taking place, both hardware and software, but
to say more than this would probably be unwise.

Again we apologize for the delay. We have been rudely educated. Yet as
things go it has been a dramatic wake-up call and probably the best time
possible for us to live through this experience.

To our customers, the digital gold community, and new users, we apologize
for this huge inconvenience. Rest assured we will be back online soon and
with a system that is better suited for our future success together.

I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further details regarding our
position.

Best regards,


Sean Trainor



Sean Trainor
Crowne-Gold The worlds easiest way to buy,
sell, hold and use gold as money.
WWW.Crowne-Gold.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
727-418-4905



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-- 
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R. A. Hettinga 
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

First person APster.

[Matthew X]

newsmakers While the first wave of Internet hype is now but a distant 
memory, the video game industry is gearing up for its own mini-version of 
the great online land rush.
Makers of the three main game consoles are all planning to allow gamers to 
connect their devices to the Internet for online play. Microsoft has made 
the biggest promises for Xbox Live, but Sony will actually get to the 
Internet first. The giant consumer electronics conglomerate will release on 
Aug. 27 a network adapter that allows its PlayStation 2 game console to tap 
into a broadband or a dial-up Internet connection.
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-955155.html?tag=fd_nc_1
As the opening credits roll on State of Emergency the whole story unravels 
itself on the nightly news. A commercial runs for a Hamburger restaurant 
and it exclaims that one Corporation food coupon will get you two 
hamburgers on Thursdays. The feminine voice of the newscaster then 
interrupts and pronounces a State of Emergency and that police are doing 
everything to bring the matter to control, at which point the camera pans 
back to reveal a gang of rioters that smash the window of the store in 
which the T.V. is being held and steal it. The story almost tells itself. A 
major corporation called…well, The Corporation… is basically doing its part 
to destroy free speech and democracy among this fair city. So rioters ban 
together to oppose this cruel form of government and the peaceful 
demonstrations soon become violent ones. Anyways you start the game in riot 
mode and you have the option to choose between two characters the first 
being a disgruntled ex-cop and the other a female lawyer. The first “level” 
is based in a shopping mall. Now, I guess this is where people tend to 
think that the game resembles GTA3, you see, you have missions to run while 
the looting and rioting goes on around you, all of the missions of course 
involve rioting, killing or stealing, themselves.
http://www.ps2w.com/reviews/EpEFlkuAEyVpnNnfTO.php

Re: The $7 million hack (was re: [dgc.chat] Crowne Gold Update)

[Tim May]

On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 08:37  PM, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

> --- begin forwarded text
>
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:14:44 -0400
> From: Sean Trainor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [dgc.chat] Crowne Gold Update
> To: GoldMoney List Server <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Crowne Gold
> ...
> Update: Crowne Gold

...long account of nature of intrusion elided

> By getting an administrator to respond directly to email, the hackers
> gained access to a computer half a world away from the front-end server 
> and
> eventually captured administrative logons.  The primary server system 
> was
> not attacked until Carnival was in full swing in the Caribbean from
> whence Crowne Gold customer service functions are provided.  When it was
> discovered that hackers had penetrated the system, IP addresses were put
> under trace and the information gained was submitted to Interpol.

And what will happen if and when TLAs decide the best way to undermine 
confidence in upstart, anarchic extra-governmental banks who haven't 
been paying bribes and taxes for generations, like some Swiss banks, 
etc. is to hack them, drain the accounts, or at least shut them down for 
distressing amounts of time?

Will Interpol do anything when HMRG or POTUS was behind the attack?

And considering that CERT wants to be notified first of any identified 
weaknesses, and presumably they and others in HomeSec and other BlackOps 
TLAs know weaknesses not yet publicized or fixed, wanna bet whether they 
could attack many of the upstart offshore banks?

> As you may be aware, Crowne Gold absorbed the former 3PGold whose 
> front-end
> server was located at Havenco at the Principality of Sealand.  Havenco 
> is
> physically secure but when the hackers accessed Crowne Golds equipment 
> at
> the Havenco server farm, there was no one on location at Havenco to 
> support
> the several IT persons on the Crowne Gold side who desperately needed on
> site assistance.   It took several days for Havenco staff to respond to
> calls for assistance and then it became immediately apparent that those 
> in
> communication were nowhere near the actual Havenco platform.

You have just now realized that the Sealand platform is minimally 
staffed?  We heard this a couple of years ago, straight from people who 
ought to know. Seems to me that you have not done due diligence

(I mean, how can Ryan be on the platform and also be on his way to 
Burning Man? (As an example...I haven't heard from Ryan in a long while, 
but I know that at one time he was administering the Sealand routers and 
boxes remotely.)

> Again we apologize for the delay. We have been rudely educated. Yet as
> things go it has been a dramatic wake-up call and probably the best time
> possible for us to live through this experience.

This will not be the last such attack. Nor could it be expected to be.

Banks have been robbed, blackmailed, threatened, and even burned for 
thousands of years. If digital banking (in its various forms) is 
successful at all, it will be attacked.

Some will try to attack these banks because that's where the money is, 
as Willie Sutton used to say. Others will attack because of the threat 
the digital banks pose, to other banks, to tax collectors, to the status 
quo. For this second class of attackers, disrupting or tarnishing the 
reputation of the operation is enough.

Much more could be said on this.

--Tim May

Stegasauraus

[Matthew X]

http://www.steganos.com/en/
Fight swedish SSL crackers with...
http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/products/products.cfm?ProductID=49
How does Fucked Company go extinct with all these dinosaurs around.
Oh well theres always the au wimmins soccer team
http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/27/1030053050034.html
And now - a Jerry Springer opera
A surprise hit at the Edinburgh Fringe festival this year is Jerry Springer 
- the Opera, about an American chat-show host who is accidentally shot, 
then sent to hell to interview Satan, Jesus, Adam and Eve. Full report

Empires days are numbered.Jedi's downunder strike back.

[Matthew X]

http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/27/1030053053578.html
May the farce be with you
August 27 2002

More than 70,000 Australians identified their religion as Jedi, Jedi Knight 
or Jedi-related in last year's national census.
The high number of Jedi-related religions was a response to an email 
published before the census calling on Star Wars fans to state Jedi as 
their religion.
"If there are enough people in the country, about 10,000, who put down the 
same religion, it becomes a fully recognised and legal religion," the email 
said.

Faith based vouchers anyone?

Defamatory email writers go free

[Matthew X]

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/26/1030053026302.html
Copycat offences feared after defamatory email writers go free
Brisbane
August 26 2002
Copycat offences were escalating after the culprits of malicious emails 
defaming a Brisbane High School principal and his deputy escaped 
investigation, the Queensland Opposition has said.
Shadow Attorney-General Lawrence Springborg has criticised the government 
over Queensland legal blocks to police investigating a false website which 
accused the pair of child abuse.
Both teachers remain on stress leave despite being cleared of any wrongdoing.
Queensland Attorney-General Rod Welford earlier said Victorian law was 
hampering the investigation into who produced the Website, which allegedly 
emanated at a Victorian address.
But Mr Springborg said Queensland law prevented Victorian police from 
securing a warrant to search the Victorian premises believed to be the 
source of the Website.
He tabled a letter in Parliament from Queensland Police Commissioner Bob 
Atkinson in which he said Queensland law was the problem.
"Victorian police advise that a search warrant cannot be obtained as the 
offence committed is classified as a summary offence (in Queensland)," Mr 
Atkinson said in the letter.
Today, Mr Springborg said the law needed changing so others did not fall 
prey to malicious gossip.
"There are more complaints about obscene emails from teachers at Brisbane 
public high schools, falsely claiming to be from their workmates," Mr 
Springborg said.
"(The government) must take heed of the opposition's warning and provide a 
sufficient criminal deterrent for people who continue to spread malicious 
lies and gossip about other people."
Mr Springborg is drafting a private members' bill to make defamation a 
criminal offence with a five year jail term.
He said the Victorian law was five times stronger than Queensland law and 
if applied could have seen warrants issued against offenders.
He blamed the Goss Labor government for taking defamation out of the 
Queensland criminal code.
"The Goss Labor government weakened the defamation laws in 1995 and these 
recent cases prove that the decision was a massive mistake," Mr Springborg 
said.

"In the age of the Internet, we are all increasingly vulnerable."

Anonymouse CC's downunder?

[Matthew X]

ACCC welcomes credit card reforms
August 27 2002
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said today it welcomed 
the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) credit card reforms.
"The ACCC has worked closely with the Reserve Bank since the designation of 
the credit card network in April 2001 and strongly believes that the 
reforms will lead to a more competitive and efficient credit card network 
in Australia," ACCC chairman Professor Allan Fels said.
"Increased competition and efficiency will be to the benefit of both 
Australian businesses and consumers."
Professor Fels said a system allowing new entrants to issue credit cards or 
provide merchant services will open up what is currently a closed shop.
CREDIT CARD REFORMS
RBA to slash hidden fees
Australia's central bank will slash the hidden fees banks charge for credit 
card transactions by almost half, open up the system to new competitors and 
allow retailers to charge cardholders for the cost of accepting credit 
cards. more
Key points in RBA credit card reforms
ACCC welcomes credit card reforms
Reform to cut cost of goods, services
http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/27/1030053054440.html

Libertarians running OZ?

[Matthew X]

http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/26/1030053035292.html
Holiday at the Razorwire Hilton - at $130 a day
By Cynthia Banham
August 27 2002
Six months of sleepless nights in a tiny dormitory with four men. A worn 
mattress with small blankets. Guards shining a torch in his face every 
half-hour.
Shahid Qureshi thought he had seen it all when he emerged from Melbourne's 
Maribyrnong detention centre last September. But the 27-year-old 
Pakistani's biggest surprise was when the Federal Government presented him 
with an accommodation bill for $26,460.
For this amount - about $130 a night - he had also endured undercooked 
meals, a ban on sex, two-hour queues for a shower, broken toilets, and one 
towel for the entire detention period.
Just $30 more a night secures a room at the Novotel, Darling Harbour, while 
a little over $100 more pays for an executive suite at the Hilton.
Mr Qureshi, who is on a bridging visa and has been prohibited from working 
while he awaits an appeal against rejection of his application for refugee 
status, has no means of paying off the debt.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/26/1030053035443.html
New overboard claim: 'Navy told us to jump in'
By Anne Calverley and AAP
August 27 2002
Asylum seekers on the boat at the centre of the children overboard affair 
were handed life jackets by the navy and told to jump into the sea as their 
vessel sank, a trial of three alleged people smugglers has been told.
Iraqi national Abdul Amir Al Moudhaffir told the trial in the Perth 
District Court that he and other asylum seekers were plucked from the sea a 
short time later by the warship HMAS Adelaide.
The asylum seekers on the boat became notorious after the Federal 
Government accused them of throwing their children overboard. The claims 
were later found to be false, and the incident has been the subject of a 
Senate inquiry.

Fort Detrick precursor sued.

[Matthew X]

http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/27/1030053055881.html
Court rejects compensation for Chinese victims
August 28 2002
Tokyo: A Japanese court today rejected compensation claims by Chinese who 
were victims of wartime atrocities committed by Japan's notorious germ 
warfare unit.
The civil suit had been brought by 180 Chinese plaintiffs who claim they 
are survivors or relatives of the victims of Japanese germ warfare attacks 
in Zhejiang and Hunan provinces from 1940 to 1942.
They had sought an apology and damages of Y10 million ($A154,000) each from 
Tokyo for atrocities carried out by Unit 731, including "bombing" cities 
with plague, cholera and other germs.
The Tokyo District Court rejected the claims while recognising the Japanese 
military had engaged in germ warfare.
The Japanese government, which only acknowledged there was a Unit 731 
decades after the end of World War II, says it knows nothing about its 
wrongdoings and has rejected related damages claims.
It also argued individuals do not have the right of demanding compensation 
from a state they fought.
Unit 731 was set up in Manchuria after the Japanese Kwangtung army formed a 
puppet state in northeastern China in 1931.
With headquarters in Harbin, the 2,000-strong unit operated till the end of 
World War II as what some historians call a killing factory cultivating 
fatal germs and conducting live autopsy.
It is blamed for the deaths of up to 10,000 Chinese and Allied prisoners of 
war (POWs), according to estimates in Japanese, Chinese and other studies.
Records show people from China, Korea, Mongolia and Russia were used as 
guinea pigs there.
Some members of the Unit have come forward in recent years to speak about 
the crimes.
Yoshio Shinozuka, who joined the unit at the age of 16 and returned to 
Japan in mid-1950s after being released from a Chinese prison, has said the 
unit had been cultivating anthrax and other killer germs for use on the 
Chinese.
He also confessed he had taken part in the vivisection of five Chinese 
individuals in a two-month period.
"I still remember clearly the first live autopsy I participated in. I knew 
the Chinese individual we dissected alive because I had taken his blood 
once before for testing," he once said.
Ordered to wash the man's body, which had turned totally black as he was 
infected with plague germs, Shinozuka "closed my eyes and forced myself to 
scrub the man's face with the deck brush."
"I could not meet his eyes because of the hate he had in his glare at me."
Those allegedly engaged in the germ warfare escaped punishment as the issue 
was not taken up at the 1946-48 International Military Tribunal for the Far 
East, better known as the Tokyo Trial.
The war tribunal, often seen as the Pacific version of the Nuremberg trial 
of Nazi Germany's leaders, involved 28 leaders of Japan's prewar and 
wartime governments, of whom seven were sentenced to hang.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/27/1030053055868.html
Asia's Aushwizt archive.

Death penalty for "traitors and communists" and scamming cabbies.

[Matthew X]

http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/27/1030053055326.html
Minister to cabbies: you cheat, you die
August 27 2002
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's tourism minister has called for tourist-cheating 
taxi drivers to be shot dead, likening them to "traitors and communists", 
reports said today.
In an outburst against cabbies who are found to over-charge or mistreat 
their customers, Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir said they were the "new enemies 
of our country, the same as communists" and should be shot.
"I am not joking. This is a serious matter. If they can be shot, all the 
better," he was quoted as saying by the Malay-language Berita Harian daily.
"I will suggest it to the other ministers (during cabinet meeting), but I 
don't know if they will accept it."
Abdul Kadir said his ministry would also call for lesser, but equally 
harsh, forms of punishment, including jailing and a lifetime suspension of 
the taxi license.
He was commenting on a report that some 70 per cent of cab drivers in the 
capital Kuala Lumpur were prone to taking advantage of tourists by not 
using standard meters or by taking long routes.
Malaysia's booming tourism industry has embarked on major promotional 
campaigns around Asia and the Middle East.
The government recorded a total of 12.8 million tourists in 2001, its 
highest ever and a 25 per cent increase year-on-year, despite experiencing 
a temporary drop in arrivals after the September 11 attacks.
Last year visitors spent a total of 24.2 billion ringgit ($A11.59 billion), 
39 per cent more than in 2000, ensuring that tourism remained Malaysia's 
second biggest foreign exchange earner, after the manufacturing sector.
END
The new au shadow minister for "community security" should dig this...he 
once chased and broke a cabbies arm in a disputed taxiride.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2001/10/21/FFXO08BB0TC.html
He's been on TV babbling about Panopticons and smacking babies,and they 
call me a lunatic!

WPA is PALLADIUM!...Oh, and soylent greene is people.

[Matthew X]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26812.html
MS to intro product key check in WinXP SP1 WPA
By John Lettice
Posted: 26/08/2002 at 16:38 GMT
Microsoft has released details of the changes being made in Windows Product 
Activation (WPA) with WinXP Service Pack 1. As expected, SP1 will fail to 
install if either of "two well-known pirated product keys" has previously 
been used to activate the system, and such systems will also be denied 
access to Windows Update. But the changes will have a far wider impact than 
this, as Microsoft appears to be trying to cover all currently known holes 
in WPA security.
ALSO
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26814.html
When fascist hackers attack.