Sunday, October 21, 2001

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22331.html By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 18/10/2001 at 12:08 GMT What a total idiot I am. I never asked Web anonymizer SafeWeb exactly what they mean when they say they "collect NO logs or user data beyond what is required for performance tuning and security monitoring of our servers. Any such data is carefully safeguarded, only analyzed statistically, and is destroyed soon thereafter." To me, 'soon thereafter' means 'during the next shift' when we're talking about a company that sells anonymity. And that's what I pretty well expected. And 'soon thereafter' is all you'll find in the company's privacy statement. Thanks to Cryptome's John Young, we now know that the logs are kept seven days. Seven days. Christ, I've 'researched' http exploits from behind SafeWeb. Long enough ago not to have anything to fear, but still, the idea that the logs live seven days is a jolt. That's not anonymity. It's a decent shot at anonymity. But who's got anything better? Anonymizer doesn't even mention logs in their privacy statement. God knows what that means. Do they have no logs? Do they not mind getting hacked? If you DoS them will they be content never to know it? That sort of obscurity is even worse. SafeWeb tells you they'll keep the logs briefly, though seven hours seems a lot briefer than seven days to me. Anonymizer won't dare broach the topic. Now that ZeroKnowledge has cancelled Freedom, where's the true on-line anonymity? Where the hell is Peekabooty? Where the hell is Steve Gibson when you need him?

This mail was generated automatically upon request from your friend:"irdial@irdialsys.win-uk.net" and its purpose is to inform people about violation of privacy and coressponding activities of NSA. You can learn more about interception system Echelon and about JAD(Jam Echelon Day) action at: http://www.uid0.sk/echelon/index_en.html . Received: (from JICC@localhost) by lVpQ.MIL (8.8.2/8.8.0) od BAA10810 for MP5K-SD@vx3Q.gov; Sat, 06 Oct 2001 17:11:13 +0000 Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 17:11:13 +0000 From: JICC Message-Id: <200110061711.BAA10810@lVpQ.MIL> To: MP5K-SD@vx3Q.gov Subject: Re: Siemens From: Lieutenant Colonel of Chief of Staff, TACCSF (Theater Air Command & Control Simulation Facility, Kirtland AFB, NM) To: Captain Ron S. Richards, Deputy Director, Security Awareness Division (M56) You should pay the GRU agent so he can get on with the job! He's got to break Al Gore out of federal custody and get him to Washington after the satellite has passed over. INR ps. Don't try to contact me

thank you ./a! i have sent that link to everyone i know. defeat it NOW!!

Saturday, October 20, 2001

Electronic Frontier Foundation ACTION ALERT Defeat the "Security Systems Standards and Certification Act" (SSSCA) Draft Bill Would Require All Software and Digital Devices to Include Federally-Mandated Copy-Prevention Systems

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Friday, October 19, 2001

Tips for spotting suspicious activities October 18, 2001 Posted: 7:06 p.m. EDT (2306 GMT) (CNN) -- U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has told Americans to keep alert in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks and report anything suspicious to law enforcement agencies, with a "heightened sense of awareness." But a definition of suspicious behavior is difficult to establish, because there is no "cookie-cutter" behavior for terrorist activity, said Thomas Sweeney, co-chair of the private sector liaison committee for the International Association of Chiefs of Police, a group exploring the boundaries between private security and law enforcement, in order to improve security on both sides. However, there are several things to look for, added Sweeney, who is also the police chief in Glastonbury, Connecticut. It's better to spot things at the level of suspicion, before they become an incident, he said. Be sensitive to your environment. Watch for: 1. Someone attempting to gain access to something they shouldn't have or somewhere they don't belong. Examples include getting near chemicals, vehicles or buildings without proper credentials, Sweeney said. 2. Strange or frequent comings or goings 3. Someone carrying a weapon People should already be notifying police if they notice unauthorized people carrying weapons or using them threateningly, Sweeney said. 4. Someone who appears to be concealing something or attempting to put something over on somebody 5. Clues on the job Sweeney says some crime solving has come from tips by people at work -- for example, film processing or computer-repair employees who noticed something out of the ordinary. 6. Suspicious mail or packages (Read the tips) 7. Watch for people conducting themselves in a strange manner or making unusual requests Example: The case of a student pilot interested only in learning how to steer a plane, not take off or land. Sweeney said it might be something that strikes you as not appropriate for whatever environment you're operating in, or something that just seems abnormal. 8. Watch for someone listening to Shortwave Radio regularly at the same time of day, whilst writing down notes

http://www.insanely-great.com/news/01/1084.html Michael Flaminio, Insanely Great Mac, October 17, 2001 Mac OS X 10.1 users will want to take note of a local security hole. The X 10.1 bug allows anyone to gain root access via the Terminal. The security hole can be used on any Mac OS X 10.1 local terminal. Using the exploit, anyone can gain root access via the Terminal application. For most Mac users this may to be too big of a deal, since under OS 9, most anyone with access to the desktop essentially already has administrative level access. However, for those depending on OS X's security for either multiple user security or system integrity, may be in for a surprise. To access the exploit: - Log into OS X 10.1 under any user. - Open the Terminal application, then quit the application - Open the NetInfo Manager application and keep it as the foreground application - Open the Terminal application from the Recent Items Menu. You will then be logged in as root in the terminal.

National Journal's Technology Daily, PM Edition, October 16, 2001 HEADLINE: PRIVACY: FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems PHOENIX -- The FBI is in the process of finalizing technical guidelines that would require all Internet service providers (ISPS) to reconfigure their e-mail systems so they could be more easily accessible to law enforcers. The move, to be completed over the next two months, would cause ISPs to act as phone companies do to comply with a 1994 digital-wiretapping law. "They are in the process of developing a very detailed set of standards for how to make packet data" available to the FBI, said Stewart Baker, an attorney at Steptoe & Johnson who was formerly the chief counsel to the National Security Agency (NSA). The proposal is not a part of the anti-terrorism legislation currently before Congress because the agency is expected to argue that the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) already grants it the authority to impose the requirement, Baker said. He added that some ISPs already meet the requirements. Baker, who frequently represents Internet companies being asked to conduct electronic surveillance for the FBI, made the revelation Tuesday in a panel discussion at the Agenda 2002 conference here on how the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are likely to affect the technology industry and civil liberties. He elaborated on the plan in an interview.

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/101801/news.godfrey.shtml Novel Security Measures A man was kept off a recent flight because of a book he was carrying.

From the priceless Iconocast: And speaking about looking back, here's the latest installment of the "Photoshop war" being waged online:

Too bad those Imperialist Running Dogs cant spell "KABUL"!

Thursday, October 18, 2001

Attention Washington! You smell like rotten eggs. You are self defeating! Did YOU know that? The instant you started funding the Taliban** you sentenced yourself to murderous embarressment and inevitable economic faliure. Our weapons are bone age. Yours are big. I guess you are the man then huh? We think you should suck a lemon. We think you should give up and stop trying to rule the world. Surrender this school yard objective or we will all simply ignore you like the insecure bully you obviously are. **(on May 17th, 2001, US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, announced a gift of $43 million US to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan to help the US fight the "war on drugs".) -Robert Scheer LA Times May, 2001

"A Mercury News article reports Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and John Ashcroft have been meeting to discuss creation of a national ID database including fingerprints, facial scans, etc. Other supporters include Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy. They claim these cards would be 'voluntary', much as the act of leaving your home or purchasing groceries are voluntary activities." Update: 10/18 01:48 GMT by M: Hah! btempleton writes: "Here is a prototype of Larry Ellison's new national ID card." Someone Clever Said: This has a way of being inevitable unless you, the people, fight like grim death against it. Here in Australia we had a proposal for the `Australia Card' -- basically the same as this proposal, only not as technologically sophisticated. It was put to the people's vote (referendum or an election issue? I don't remember) and the people's response was to tell the proposers how to fold it into sharp corners, and where to stick it afterwards. That's Ok, though, because then they introduced the Tax File Number, which is a wannabe SSN -- you need it to earn an income (failure to provide a TFN is not illegal, but automatically results in you being taxed at 49.5%), to open a bank account, or just about anywhere else where you are using money in a non-trivial way. The TFN was possible because we (the Australian population) had just fought furiously and won against a more draconian scheme, and were tired. Also, this almost slipped under the radar without comment, as the parliament rushed it through with very little debate, in the house or in public. This may turn out to be another High Aim Tactic. Ask for something which is absolutely ridiculous, and let yourself be beaten back to what you wanted in the first place. Even if Ellison is serious (surely not...?) his overtures can -- and probably will -- be used by others with the same barrow to push. The question is where to draw the line. How much freedom from surveillance do you want? Once you have figured that out, don't settle for one jot less! As soon as you rationalise that `I don't really need to be able to X' and bargain away the right to be able to do so, then you have just lost something precious which you will never get back. Of course, things are rarely that simple, and some things are obviously stupid. (Such as, eg, `I demand the right to stockpile Anthrax spores'.) But the apparatchiks will use these examples to persuade you that the right to freely assemble, for example, is just too dangerous for you to have. It will not be put to you like that. It will be that some travel may have to be restricted, or that restrictions based on profiling [Hmm, you have travelled in the middle east, your family name is arabic, and you talk funny...] will be instituted `for the time being'. If history teaches us anything, it is that `for the time being' can be translated `for the foreseeable future', and that just means `until it is no longer profitable to do so'. Wasn't it a Founding Father who said `the Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance'?

CNN-- us millitary propaganda broadcast transcripts: Here's a complete text of one broadcast: "Attention Taliban! You are condemned. Did you know that? The instant the terrorists you support took over our planes, you sentenced yourselves to death. The Armed Forces of the United States are here to seek justice for our dead. Highly trained soldiers are coming to shut down once and for all Osama bin Laden's ring of terrorism, and the Taliban that supports them and their actions. "Our forces are armed with state of the art military equipment. What are you using, obsolete and ineffective weaponry? Our helicopters will rain fire down upon your camps before you detect them on your radar. Our bombs are so accurate we can drop them right through your windows. Our infantry is trained for any climate and terrain on earth. United States soldiers fire with superior marksmanship and are armed with superior weapons. "You have only one choice ... Surrender now and we will give you a second chance. We will let you live. If you surrender no harm will come to you. When you decide to surrender, approach United States forces with your hands in the air. Sling your weapon across your back muzzle towards the ground. Remove your magazine and expel any rounds. Doing this is your only chance of survival." http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/17/ret.us.propaganda/index.html

does anyone know much about the nmap -e switch for routing packets thru a specified device? more specifically, how to actually specify the device(ie: device #, pci slot, mac addy et al). please feel free to email me thanks

Wednesday, October 17, 2001

What is amazing to me is that people are counting the numbers of people who were killed according to their nationality. One of the most serious complaints against Americans is that it is believed that they think that the lives of Americans are more valuable than the lives of people from other countries. When people are killed, human beings are lost, not the property of a nation, or members of an artificially constructed or imagined group. It doesn�t matter that there are more people from other nations that are missing, because all humans have the same intrinsic worth. And if there were more people who held non-USA passports/nationality, so what? Should Uncle Sam be doing anything different based on the proportion of "foreign nationals" that have been killed? Would there be any bombing if no Americans had been killled? What is the purpose of separating people in this way? Classifying people by nation causes enough problems when people are alive, but what can the gain be in separating people when they are dead, save as a way to seek a worldwide licence to extract vengence? Statistics are useful and enjoyable, but when applied to people, statistics become a very dangerous double-edged sword, that sends messages of a kind that the world needs to hear less of. Is it possible that the idea that American lives are more valuable than other people�s lives is something that is deeply encoded in the American psyche? So deeply that it just rolls off of the tongue without thought? Some would immediately argue that its people of other nations that do not value the lives of their own countrymen. This may or may not be true, but when a country takes on the responsibility of policing the world, and meting out punishments to entire countries, it needs to be extra careful about how it counts and handles the living and the dead, wherever they live and die. WORLD TRADE CENTER NON-US DEATH TOLL OUTNUMBERS AMERICAN Wayne Madsen What is being largely lost in the grief and sorrow following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center is the fact that the current count of dead and missing reveals more foreign nationals died in the attack than Americans. Although the major media has reported that other nations lost a number of their citizens, it is not being reported that their numbers, some 3061, are in excess of U.S. casualties, currently estimated at around 2589. These figures do not include any Canadians who may have been lost in the cataclysm. From information culled from a number of wire service accounts, the estimates of dead and missing by country are: Revised 16 October 2001 Great Britain 300 India 250 Chile 250 Germany 230 (+130) Colombia 208 (-) Pakistan 200 Mexico 150 (-350) Turkey 120 (-11) Philippines 117 Russia 117 (+21) Israel 110 (-23) El Salvador 101 (+30) Honduras 100 (-) Nigeria 94 (+) Canada 63 (+) Australia new: 55 (+) Bangladesh 55 (+) Brazil 55 (-) Greece 50 (+) Japan 44 (-26) Ireland 44 (+) Netherlands 43 (-360) Hungary 41 (+)(missing) Italy 38 (-) Dominican Rep. 31 (+6) Ecuador 30 (-4) Poland 30 (+) South Korea 30 (+) Guyana 25 (+20) new: 21 (-4) Austria 27 (-) Japan 23 (-) Cambodia 20 Hong Kong 16 (-3) South Korea 15 (-) Czech Republic 15 (+5) Slovakia 10 (+) France 10 Spain 8 Yemen 8 (+) Jamaica 7 (+) new: 17 (+10) Taiwan 7 (-) Guatemala 6 (+) Haiti 6 (+) (may be more) Zimbabwe 6 Switzerland 5 (-101) Yugoslavia 5 (+5) Iran 5 (+) Argentina 5 (+) Trinidad & Tobago 4 (+) new: 5 (+1) China 2 (-2) Portugal 4 (-) Egypt 4 (+) prob. more Belize 4 (+) new: 1 (-3) Malaysia 4 (-) Lebanon 3 (+) Panama 3 (+) Antigua & Barbuda 3 (+) new: 2 (-1) Grenada 3 (+) new: 2 (-1) Peru 3 (-) Belarus 3 (+) Venezuela 3 Barbados 3 (+) new: 4 (+1) Jordan 2 (+) New Zealand 2 Zimbabwe 2 (-) Thailand 2 Indonesia 2 (-) St.Kitts / Nevis 2 (+) new: 3 (+1) St.Vincent / Gren. 2 (+) new: 1 (-1) Paraguay 2 Ukraine 1 Ghana 1 (-) St Lucia 1 (+) Sri Lanka 1 (+) Uruguay 1 Bulgaria 1 (+) Belgium 1 Costa Rica 1 (+) Paraguay 1 (-) Burundi 1 (+) Kenya 1 Bahamas 1 (+) new: 0 (-1) Norway 1 Gambia 1 (+1) Sweden 1 Dominica new: 1 (+1) Guinea "Several missing" Senegal "Several missing" Denmark 0 (-1) Finland 0 (-1)

Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:42:54 -0400 To: declan@well.com From: Duncan Frissell Subject: How many Divisions does Silicon Valley Have? A few weeks ago in the New York Times, the foreign affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman attacked Techno-Libertarians for their lack of a sufficiently bellicose foreign policy. April 18, 1998, Saturday Section: Editorial Desk

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN I don't think I like Silicon Valley. That's all right, Silicon Valley doesn't like you either. Here's why: I'm as impressed as anyone with the technologies that Silicon Valley is producing and the way they are changing how we must think about economic power and how nations interact. But what is so striking about Silicon Valley is that it has become so enamored of its innovative and profit-making prowess that it has completely lost sight of the overall context within which this is taking place. It has not "lost sight of the ... context" so much as it sees the context all too well and has rejected it utterly. There is a disturbing complacency here toward Washington, government and even the nation. There is no geography in Silicon Valley, or geopolitics. There are only stock options and electrons. I wouldn't call it "complacency" so much as "rejection." Techno-libertarians (the true targets of this piece) are quite aggressive in rejecting Washington. When I asked an all-too-typical tech-exec here when was the last time he talked about Iraq or Russia or foreign wars, he answered: "Not more than once a year. We don't even care about Washington. Money is extracted from Silicon Valley and then wasted by Washington. I want to talk about people who create wealth and jobs. I don't want to talk about unhealthy and unproductive people. If I don't care enough about the wealth-destroyers in my own country, why would I care about the wealth- destroyers in another country?" Sounds like a perfectly straight-forward political position to me. Libertarians have always been anti-war and anti "entangling alliances.", even back during WWII. Leftists used to be anti-war as well but some of them have strayed from that position. Someone has to keep it up. What's wrong with this picture is that all the technologies Silicon Valley is designing to carry digital voices, videos and data farther and faster around the world, all the trade and financial integration it is promoting through its innovations, and all the wealth it is generating, is happening in a world stabilized by a benign superpower called the United States of America, with its capital in Washington D.C. Armed neutrality is a perfectly acceptable foreign policy. Super power and nation state politics have murdered 170 million human beings in this century alone (http://www.laissezfaire.org/pl7366.html). Until an alternative racked up that quantity of dead, we'd be well ahead of the game. Some people just don't like super powers -- however benign. The hidden hand of the global market would never work without the hidden fist. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps (with the help, incidentally, of global institutions like the U.N. and the International Monetary Fund). And those fighting forces and institutions are paid for by all the tax dollars that Washington is "wasting" every year. The *UN* and the *IMF* give me a break. There is little evidence that if those two disappeared anyone would notice save those who would miss a paycheck. As for the U.S. armed forces, there is no doubt that it is very convenient to have well-trained and equipped troops available from time to time but that says nothing about the organizational form that produces such forces. The U.S. military is impressive but it is also inefficient and expensive. A few years ago, the Economist (in one of its "Survey's of Defence" proposed an international regiment to suppress insurgency. Such an institution could be public or corporate. A mercenary regiment independent of national bureaucracies could produce a very effective force that could suppress "commerce raiding" without the high costs and risks involved government armed forces. A private "82nd Airborne", equipped with off-the-shelf technology, which would focus on the bottom line both in terms of money and men, could give everyone the protection they need without the high cost and high death rate associated with government armed forces. An armed civilian population in any country that would trust its subjects with arms would make any attack even more costly. Because of the intense competition here among companies, and the continuous flood of new products, there is a saying in Silicon Valley that "loyalty is just one mouse-click away." But you can take that too far. Execs here say things like: "We are not an American company. We are I.B.M. U.S., I.B.M. Canada, I.B.M. Australia, I.B.M. China." Oh yeah? Well, the next time you get in trouble in China, then call Li Peng for help. And the next time Congress closes another military base in Asia -- and you don't care because you don't care about Washington -- call Microsoft's navy to secure the sea lanes of Asia. And the next time the freshmen Republicans want to close more U.S. embassies, call America Online when you lose your passport. The techno-libertarians of Silicon Valley don't believe in passports. They are working to eliminate such inefficiencies. If government or private piracy picks up again on the "sea lanes to Asia", a simple restoration of licensed privateers could end that problem. Maybe Russia's Northern Fleet could find something more useful to do as privateers than they are now sitting around drinking, contemplating suicide, and juggling Russia's largest cache of nukes. Note that US Naval vessels can't sail these days without civilian electronics techs (contractors) to maintain and operate the intelligence and weapons systems. Privatizing the rest of the system is not as big a step as most people think. Mercenaries and privateers have a long history and can be easily put back to work. Note too that in spite of their reputation, mercenaries and privateers have (by any measure) killed fewer civilians and overthrown fewer governments than have military forces consisting of government employees. Harry Saal, a successful Silicon Valley engineer, venture capitalist and community activist -- an exception to the norm -- remarked to me: "If you ask people here what their affiliation is, they will name their company. Many live and work on a company campus. The leaders of these companies don't have any real understanding of how a society operates and how education and social services get provided for. People here are not involved in Washington policy because they think the future will be set by technology and market forces alone and eventually there will be a new world order based on electrons and information." The denizens of the Valley are well aware of how "education and social services" *fail* to "get provided for". They have to try and hire the illiterate output. Arguing the domestic policy success of government is even rougher than arguing its foreign policy success. They're exactly half right. I've had a running debate with a neo-Reaganite foreign-policy writer, Robert Kagan, from the Carnegie Endowment, about the impact of economic integration and technology on geopolitics. He says I overestimate its stabilizing effects; I say he underestimates it. We finally agreed that unless you look at both geotechnology and geopolitics you can't explain (or sustain) this relatively stable moment in world history. But Silicon Valley's tech-heads have become so obsessed with bandwidth they've forgotten balance of power. They've forgotten that without America on duty there will be no America Online. "The people in Silicon Valley think it's a virtue not to think about history because everything for them is about the future," argued Mr. Kagan. "But their ignorance of history leads them to ignore that this explosion of commerce and trade rests on a secure international system, which rests on those who have the power and the desire to see that system preserved." This is a fascinating historical debate but it can't have much to say about future security policy. We know that periods dominated by markets (the mid-19th century for example) have fewer wars while periods dominated by governments (most of the 20th century) have more wars. The record of nation states in managing conflict is not one designed to make us confident of future peace. Alternative methods of social organization have at least as great a chance at keeping the murder rate in the 21st Century a bit lower than the murder rate during this past Century of Blood. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tuesday, October 16, 2001

This week we are holding a PGP Party, with a special cash prize, sponsored by some concerned netizens with very deep pockets. Here is how to join in the party and win a huge cash prize: Go get PGP http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware/default.asp OR go get GNUPG http://www.gnupg.org If you opt for GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) and you run windoze, you might want to take a look at WinPT http://www.winpt.org/download.html which is a GUI for GNUPG. PGP is simpler to use than GNUPG so you may want to start with that.You can always adopt GNUPG after you are comfortable with PGP. Download and install PGP or GPG for your platform. Read the manual. Generate your keypair, and then sign the Irdial-Discs Key with your new key. Here is the Irdial-Discs PGP public Key:

Once you have signed the Irdial-Discs key, email it to irdial@irdialsys.win-uk.net. We will draw names of those that have successfully signed our PGP public key out of a hat. Four lucky Irdial-List subscribers will win 5000 in cash. If you have already signed the Irdial-Discs public key, you will be automagically entered into the draw. The winners of the draw will be announced on BLOGDIAL on Tuesday October 23 2001. Void where prohibited.

Press release: FOR IMMEDIATE USE : 16th October 2001 EMERGENCY POWERS ALLOW MASS-SURVEILLANCE FOR NON-TERRORIST INVESTIGATIONS

*) Home Office undecided whether ISP data retention to be voluntary or compulsory *) Data revealing who you talk to, what you read, where you are, collected for "national security" *) Data can be trawled for public order, minor crimes, tax, health and safety *) E-Commerce to bear open-ended storage and data-protection compliance costs

As part of an emergency package of anti-terrorism measures, Home Secretary David Blunkett announced yesterday (Note 3) that Internet Service Providers would be "enabled" to retain logs detailing the online activity of their customers (but NOT the contents of communications). Data protection legislation (Note 4) currently protects electronic privacy by prohibiting blanket storage by ISPs of logs recording such details as websites browsed, To and From addresses of e-mails, and which 'newsgroup' articles are read by a subscriber. Other "communications data", such as the telephone number used to dial-up the Internet, may be kept so long as it is relevant to billing or fraud control. Although Mr.Blunkett's use of the word "enable" (rather than "require") implied that compliance will be at the ISP's discretion, the lead official told FIPR that retention may be made compulsory, enforced through civil law. The same source said a ministerial certificate will assert "national security" exemptions (Note 5) so that ISPs and telephone companies will not be in breach of European Directives. The government will only specify later exactly what data may be collected and for how long in a Code of Practice in consultation with ISPs. No new legislation is necessary for police and intelligence agencies to collect the data once it is recorded by ISPs and telephone companies. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act 2000 (Note 5) allows records to be obtained for broad purposes including tax, health and safety, public order offences and minor crime. Although "communications data" provides a complete map of private life, revealing who you talk to, what you read, and where you go, the authorities can rubber-stamp compilation and trawling of large and detailed databases. In contrast, inspection of the contents of a single e-mail requires a warrant from a Secretary of State, and a search for documents requires a court order. Bulk requests can be made on groups or the history of an individual and kept by police and intelligence agencies indefinitely under data protection exemptions. This includes the exact co-ordinates of your geographic location - which 3rd-generation mobiles produce continuously whilst the phone is switched on. Computerised 'traffic analysis' (tracing links between individuals) is a powerful new form of mass-surveillance, but is only efficient at keeping tabs on the law-abiding. Professional terrorists know how to cover their tracks - for example throw-away use of pre-paid mobile phones. Reports of the modus operandi of the September 11th terrorists indicate they used Web-based e-mail from public terminals. Clearly it is not persuasive to argue for privacy to be sacrificed in the name of fighting terrorism if the measures would not in fact be effective. A leaked report from the National Criminal Intelligence Servcie last year revealed that police and security agencies are nevertheless pressing for a mandatory data retention law to warehouse the traffic data of the entire population for several years (http://cryptome.org/ncis-carnivore.htm). Blunkett's proposals amount to blanket 'dataveillance' for non-terrorist investigations, using the the tragic events of Sep 11 as justification. Providers of e-commerce authentication services could be affected as well as ISPs and telcos. Anyone offering "provision of access to, and of facilities for making use of...the transmission of communications" [RIP S.22(4) & S.1 defs] could face extra costs of providing suitable storage devices and media, and full compliance with data protection legislation. Quotes Caspar Bowden, director of Internet think-tank FIPR (Foundation for Information Policy Research) commented: "Sensitive data revealing what you read, where you are, and who you talk to online could be collected in the name of national security. But Mr.Blunkett intends to allow access to this data for purposes nothing to do with fighting terrorism. Minor crimes, public order and tax offences, attendance at demonstrations, even 'health and safety' will be legitimate reasons to siphon sensitive details of private life into government databases to be retained indefinitely. This would be in flagrant breach of the first and second Data Protection Principles." Contact for enquiries: Caspar Bowden Foundation for Information Policy Research www.fipr.org cb@fipr.org +44(0)20 7354 2333 Notes for editors ----------------- 1. The Foundation for Information Policy Research (www.fipr.org), is a non-profit think-tank for Internet policy, governed by an independent Board of Trustees with an Advisory Council of experts. 2. FIPR's analysis of the RIP Act (www.fipr.org/rip) stimulated media debate, and led to amendments ensuring that people who lose decryption keys or forget passwords are presumed innocent until proven guilty, and prohibiting detailed surveillance of web browsing without a full warrant. 3. Home Office Press Release 15/10/2001: "BLUNKETT OUTLINES FURTHER ANTI-TERRORIST MEASURES" (http://wood.ccta.gov.uk/homeoffice/hopress.nsf/50e2456405b67f7d802566b3 006819dc/2a5fc6811dec4c7180256ae6004fa4d3?OpenDocument) 3. The Telecommunications Data Protection Directive 1996, implemented in UK law as SI 2093 (1999). The Office of the Information Commissioner (contact Iain Bourne) has stated that ISP blanket (i.e. for all subscribers) logging and retention of online Internet activity is prohibited. Logging of telephone numbers is permitted whilst relevant for billing or fraud control. 4. Section 32. of SI 2093 allows a certificate signed by a Minister of the Crown to over-ride the prohibition on blanket data retention for National Security purposes (http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1999/19992093.htm) 5. Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, Part.1 Chapter.2, Section 22 (http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--c.htm#22). This Part is not yet in force and the relevant Code of Practice is open for consultation until November 2nd (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ripa/consultintro.htm) 6. Data Protection Act 1998, Schedule 1, (http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/80029--l.htm#sch1)

"In the week after the September 11 onslaught, the German avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, 73, was forced to apologise after describing the terrorists' actions as "the greatest work of art one can imagine". Four of his concerts were cancelled in the furore after his remarks." http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Monday, October 15, 2001

What if 100 people sent out 1000 dusted envelopes each?

Check it out: scrollbar on the left http://www.arabia.com/ No scrollbar not on the left, but this is the station with direct line to ObL http://www.aljazeera.net/

Lost & Fround Part 2: Found in a London street

re: WGET - This is because wget obeys robots.txt which was set to exclude all robots (to keep out search engines. I've changed it now so it should allow wget in. You might need need to use --user-agent=Wget if it still doesn't work. Other news: broadcast a lot of the moster music series over the weekend on Radio 4A - Brighton pirate, as well as doing two shows of my own. Not that I remembered to tell anyone here. I'm looking for collaborators for a game of radio consequences for the next broadcast if anyones interested. And now in all its cheapskate and geeky glory is my computer history. 1978? - saw my first computer, actually a keyboard and teletype printer connected via some incredibly sloow line to a main frame (and thence to another somewhere across the atlantic). Played star wars. 1978-80 - marginally involved in building various pre ZX81 homebrew boxes/kits -0 one of which came in a plywood case with a homemade keyboard arranged in alphabetical order because the owners couldn't type 1981? -TI-99A -uugh 1994/5 - got my first Unix account (and net access)- love at first sight! Actually preceded by a couple of months on an ancient VAX machine runnig openVMS. 1998 - given 386 with 4Mb of RAM - still running strong and in regular use today, it was actually in use as an intanet server running apache for a while. Teamed up with a 10" black and white monitor from a car boot sale - eventually replaced by a 16 colour grey scale monitor from a skip. Also set up my first production linux server for a cheap net access project that was employing me at the time. 2000 - 486 w/ 20Mb. Originally a donation to the net access project which was largely jerry-built out of bits of cheap and donated kit (including tyhe infamous giant bag o' random network cards that was the bane of my life for 6 months) but deemed too crap even for this. Needless to say this was a giant trechnological leap forward for me - still not powerful enough to run X-windows but then I've always had a bad case of terminal nostalgia. 2001 - finally moved into the world of colour when I found an SVGA monitor in the skip, and I 've even been vaguely promised a pentium machine. I also have root on 6 linux boxes and 3 sun boxes that don't belong to me so I'm very happy.

Saturday, October 13, 2001

ok ok so spmammimic is back up and my pgp is working again. nothing like some paranoia to get one going. Ich brauche einen taffy zu appease meine Unruhe!!!!

http://www.newgrounds.com/collections/dbz.html Dress Bulma!

Friday, October 12, 2001

Ich brauche einen taffy zu appease meine Unruhe!!!! and curious, has anyone else been getting bad packet pgp emails that won't decrypt? just wanting to know if this is rampant as i have gotten three this morning from different people. very curious.

just noiced that http://spammimic.com is offline. won't ping or resolve from ip. seems interesting considering the current situation, huh? and only homebrew pc's here. much cheaper that way.

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Thursday, October 11, 2001

In a vague sort of order: HP Reverse Polish Notation Calculator * Texas Instruments hand held Translator * Radio Shack TRS-80 (cassette drive) + Bambino "UFO Master-Blaster Station" handheld * Battlestar Galactica "Space Alert" handheld (1978) * Mattel "Auto Race" hand held (1976) * Master Brick Tetris clone (unknown) * Various home brew PCs * Thinkpad 356x laptop * Atari 400 * Atari 5200 * Odysey 100 Pong (1975) * Adman Grandstand Sega Game Gear (White) Novag "Gomoku" * Nintendo Game Boy (6: one yellow, one clear, one pocket black, one pocket purple, two regulation issue) // Nintendo Super Famicom (Japanese issue) * Nintendo Game Boy Advance NEC PC Engine DUO * NEC TG16 Handheld * 15 Tamagotchis + Arcade Machine Dragons Lair + Arcade Machine Star Wars (stand up version) + Arcade Machine Tempest + * Still owned + No longer owned // one stolen with HUGE Blastoise.

Wednesday, October 10, 2001

but pro fashion!

Tuesday, October 09, 2001

When you post to Blogdial, you can use HTML, but you should try to do the following: Always set your text to word wrap. Do not use the P tag, cause it leave double returns. Obviously these are not "rules".

To everyone having IE slowdown problems, this is due to the colorchanging javascript connected to the new template; im going to try and modify the script so that it presents a choice of colors in the sidebar, but ummmm I dont know javascript!!!! If anyone can hack this up for us thatwouldbecool. Please email me if you can help and I will mail you the javascript in question.

It's official: "Jedi Knight" is ON the list of religions for the 2001 UK census.

A campaign to get people to write the entry on their census forms has succeeded in the term being included on the list of religions, alongside Church of England, Roman Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu. Sufficient numbers of people wrote the entry in for it to be allocated its own code for the census processing team to use. But officials from the Office of National Statistics are keen to point out that just because Jedi Knight has been given its own code, that does not confer on it the status of official recognition. "We are not defining what a religion or a faith might be," a spokeswoman said. "We are recognising what some may have entered on their census form and ensuring that our coding framework will cater for it." Other religions which are included on the list, alongside the better known cases, are the Church of Free Love, Wiccan, Divine Lightmission, and Coleraine Christian Centre. Shortly before the census last April, an e-mail was circulated in the UK stating that if 10,000 people put Jedi on the census form, it would become a "fully recognised and legal religion". A similar thing had previously happened in New Zealand, when citizens were led to believe they needed 8,000 signatures to make Jedi an official religion. The list of religions - posted on the statistics office website, and available under "Internet links" - is simply the list of answers to the religion question. It is not yet clear how many people will have written Jedi on their form, as the counting process is still going on. Results are to be published in Autumn 2002. And even then, the information might not easy to obtain, as it will not be published separately in the official census reports released by the statistics office. Anyone wishing to find out the number would need to commission a special report to be produced. Also on the list Druidism, Satanism, Free thinker, Wicca, Celtic, Pagan. BBC Online

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does anyone know a good redhat how-to resource. i am having some trouble running it. thanks!!!!

Anonymous reports on a secret meeting of RIAA: http://cryptome.org/riaa-secret.htm Where they said: "Once we stem piracy, we will be able to raise prices in order to regain lost profits from piracy." Disney's Eisner stated, "Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives." "The new generation of rogue file sharing applications have set a disturbing precedent. The encryption technology used is clearly aimed at thwarting our anti-piracy operations. We must go after the parties involved, and force them to give up their encryption keys so our anti-piracy operations can begin reporting those who infringe upon our works to their internetservice providers".

Physicists Create New State Of Matter At Record Low Temperature Physicists in Boulder, Colo., have achieved a temperature far lower than has ever been produced before and created an entirely new state of matter predicted decades ago by Albert Einstein and Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose. Cooling rubidium atoms to less than 170 billionths of a degree above absolute zero caused the individual atoms to condense into a "superatom" behaving as a single entity, said Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman of JILA, a joint program of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Before photographing the superatom, the physicists cooled the atoms to 20 billionths of a degree above absolute zero, the lowest temperature ever achieved. "It really is a new state of matter," Wieman said. "It has completely different properties from any other kind of matter." "This state could never have existed naturally anywhere in the universe," added Cornell. "So the sample in our lab is the only chunk of this stuff in the universe, unless it is in a lab in some other solar system."

No one seems to be interested in the most incredible of events that has happened in the last 50 years.

SYRIA HAS BEEN GIVEN A SEAT ON THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL!!!!!!!

This means that anything immoral requiring a rubber stamp will now automatically be vetoed. It will now be impossible to keep hammering Iraq (or anyone else) with approval of the UN. This is so staggering, so important, and so unbelievable, that I almost fell off my chair when I heard it. The 21st century started not when the Twin Towers were bombed, but when Syria got a seat on the UN Security Council. Just you watch!

What could have been done instead of bombing Afghanistan? South Africa was forced to give up apartheid by the world refusing to have anything to do with them; they were shut off form the world, and this strangling action caused the regime to wither and die. The unthinkable happened, and Nelson Mandela became the president of the country. This was possible largely because the regime in South Africa had identical goals and aspirations to the people who were putting on the pressure. This approach may not work with people who have goals and aspirations that are different from the source of the pressure. A different approach is be needed. It is said that in Afghanistan women have no more rights than do animals. This means that they are for all intents and purposes, slaves. If the west opened its doors to people from Afghanistan (!) who wanted to leave that country, Afghanistan would quickly be bled dry of its most vital resource; its young people. No country could survive a mass exodus of its young people, and this would terminally cripple the country. Those women, who cannot escape for fear of death could be helped to leave by an "underground railroad", in the same way that opponents of slavery helped millions of slaves in the united states escape the south. The country would be so damaged by this process that it would be changed forever by virtue of the fact that everyone who had the chance to leave had left. The country would either flounder and collapse completely, or survive in a new form, attracting people who desire to live in a place that is run as Afghanistan is run. Either way, bombing is the ultimate expression of failure; failure to imagine different solutions, failure of will to carry them out and an absolute failure of the worldwide institutions that were created to put an end to war forever.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Angered at leaks from classified briefings, President Bush ordered key department heads last week to restrict their briefings of members of Congress to the four major leaders and the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, sources told CNN on Monday. He also called the four leaders to explain his decision and said he was furious that sensitive intelligence material that was shared with Congress was being repeated to the news media, two sources familiar with the calls told CNN. The top Democrats in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Missouri, expressed approval of the new policy. "The president told me about it, and I agree," Daschle said. "It's unfortunate, but there's no choice. Some people just can't resist talking." Now this "war" will be fought in secret, no one in opposition has access to the mass media, so the coalition can do whatever they want, wherever they want, and if anyone talks, its thier word against the president of the usa's word. Incredible!

Monday, October 08, 2001

We'll leave the last, chilling word to Sony Music Entertainment's Steve Heckler: "Once consumers can no longer get free music, they will have to buy the music in the formats we choose to put out." You have been warned. � How many times have I warned everybody about this!!!!!!!????? The upcoming release "M/Y" has copyright notification that explicity gives permission to individuals to "rip encode host and share" the recordings on the release. This is one of the ways that Irdial-Discs is putting its money where its mouth is. Everyone must also be acutely aware of exactly what equipment they are buying and what it can and cannot do. For example, recent Apple computers have been shipped with DVD drives that are not fully able to do what you would expect them to do, ie record what you want and do with it what you want. Be careful when you buy something; for example, when you buy a portable MP3 player, be sure that it REALLY IS an MP3 PLAYER. The SONY music stick (I think its called) only allows you to use crippled formats, and alows you to convert clean formats into crippled ones. Thats why you should not buy one of those pieces of crap. Consumers need to protect themselvs by buing what is good for them, like Irdial-Discs music, which sounds good, looks good, and doesnt infringe on your rights as a human being. How will we get paid?? Buy our t-shirs, hell, buy our CDs if youre into that. Send us cash (yes, people actually do that). Introduce our mailing list to your friends. If you want us to keep putting out music, thats all you have do do.

Sunday, October 07, 2001

Tonight, I heard FOUR X6s, on 11.527 at 10:07 and 8053 at 10:18 and 7525 at 10:30 and 10.769 at 10:55. The first two had the same tone sequence, the third and forth ones different tone sequences. I have NEVER heard so many X6 transmissions ever in a single night. Hmmmmmmmmmm! Also heard two loud Lincolnshire Poachers, an E10(VLB2), 5 E10s in progress, an E5, Buzzer, and for the first time ever, I heard a Chinese language numbers station, which possibly was New Star Broadcasting, on 8300. This night has been totally UNREAL. I have re posted this post 10 times, as I keep hearing stations.

A mobile telephone user in Pakistan displays an anti-U.S. slogan, a depiction of the attack on New York's World Trade Center, and the Arabic phrase "God is Great" in the western Pakistani city of Quetta on October 7, 2001. Sentiment in much of Muslim Pakistan remains steadfast against the United States ahead of a likely attack on neighboring Afghanistan. REUTERS/Zahid Hussein

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Saturday, October 06, 2001

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Stego claims again. Note the graphic "A Nation United" http://abcnews.go.com/ And this popped up when the page opened.

One Gigabyte of files has already been leeched from the new Irdial A-212 Mirror; thanks to Paul M for prividing the pipe and the space!

Friday, October 05, 2001

Independent Media Center www.indymedia.org Pakistani paper's "exclusive" interview with Usamah Bin-Ladin (english) Monday 01 Oct 2001 author: Karachi Ummat in Urdu 28 Sep 01 pp1, 7 Ummat: You have been accused of involvement in the attacks in New York and Washington. What do you want to say about this? If you are not involved, who might be? Usamah: In the name of Allah, the most beneficent, the most merciful. Praise be to Allah, Who is the creator of the whole universe and Who made the earth as an abode for peace, for the whole mankind. Allah is the Sustainer, who sent Prophet Muhammad for our guidance. I am thankful to the Ummat Group of Publications, which gave me the opportunity to convey my viewpoint to the people, particularly the valiant and Momin [true Muslim] people of Pakistan who refused to believe in lie of the demon. I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children, and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children, and other people. Such a practice is forbidden ever in the course of a battle. It is the United States, which is perpetrating every maltreatment on women, children, and common people of other faiths, particularly the followers of Islam. All that is going on in Palestine for the last 11 months is sufficient to call the wrath of God upon the United States and Israel. There is also a warning for those Muslim countries, which witnessed all these as a silent spectator. What had earlier been done to the innocent people of Iraq, Chechnya, and Bosnia? Only one conclusion could be derived from the indifference of the United States and the West to these acts of terror and the patronage of the tyrants by these powers that America is an anti-Islamic power and it is patronizing the anti-Islamic forces. Its friendship with the Muslim countries is just a show, rather deceit. By enticing or intimidating these countries, the United States is forcing them to play a role of its choice. Put a glance all around and you will see that the slaves of the United States are either rulers or enemies [of Muslims]. The US has no friends, nor does it want to keep any because the prerequisite of friendship is to come to the level of the friend or consider him at par with you. America does not want to see anyone equal to it. It expects slavery from others. Therefore, other countries are either its slaves or subordinates. However, our case is different. We have pledged slavery to God Almighty alone and after this pledge there is no possibility to become the slave of someone else. If we do that, it will be disregardful to both our Sustainer and his fellow beings. Most of the world nations upholding their freedom are the religious ones, which are the enemies of United States, or the latter itself considers them as its enemies. Or the countries, which do not agree to become its slaves, such as China, Iran, Libya, Cuba, Syria, and the former Russia [as received]. Whoever committed the act of 11 September are not the friends of the American people. I have already said that we are against the American system, not against its people, whereas in these attacks, the common American people have been killed. According to my information, the death toll is much higher than what the US government has stated. But the Bush administration does not want the panic to spread. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the US system, but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology could survive. They can be any one, from Russia to Israel and from India to Serbia. In the US itself, there are dozens of well-organized and well-equipped groups, which are capable of causing a large-scale destruction. Then you cannot forget the American Jews, who are annoyed with President Bush ever since the elections in Florida and want to avenge him. Then there are intelligence agencies in the US, which require billions of dollars worth of funds from the Congress and the government every year. This [funding issue] was not a big problem till the existence of the former Soviet Union but after that the budget of these agencies has been in danger. They needed an enemy. So, they first started propaganda against Usamah and Taleban and then this incident happened. You see, the Bush administration approved a budget of 40bn dollars. Where will this huge amount go? It will be provided to the same agencies, which need huge funds and want to exert their importance. Now they will spend the money for their expansion and for increasing their importance. I will give you an example. Drug smugglers from all over the world are in contact with the US secret agencies. These agencies do not want to eradicate narcotics cultivation and trafficking because their importance will be diminished. The people in the US Drug Enforcement Department are encouraging drug trade so that they could show performance and get millions of dollars worth of budget. General Noriega was made a drug baron by the CIA and, in need, he was made a scapegoat. In the same way, whether it is President Bush or any other US president, they cannot bring Israel to justice for its human rights abuses or to hold it accountable for such crimes. What is this? Is it not that there exists a government within the government in the United Sates? That secret government must be asked as to who made the attacks. Ummat: A number of world countries have joined the call of the United States for launching an attack on Afghanistan. These also include a number of Muslim countries. Will Al-Qa'idah declare a jihad against these countries as well? Usamah: I must say that my duty is just to awaken the Muslims; to tell them as to what is good for them and what is not. What does Islam says and what the enemies of Islam want? Al-Qa'idah was set up to wage a jihad against infidelity, particularly to encounter the onslaught of the infidel countries against the Islamic states. Jihad is the sixth undeclared element of Islam. [The first five being the basic holy words of Islam, prayers, fast, pilgrimage to Mecca, and giving alms] Every anti-Islamic person is afraid of it. Al-Qa'idah wants to keep this element alive and active and make it part of the daily life of the Muslims. It wants to give it the status of worship. We are not against any Islamic country nor we consider a war against an Islamic country as jihad. We are in favour of armed jihad only against those infidel countries, which are killing innocent Muslim men, women, and children just because they are Muslims. Supporting the US act is the need of some Muslim countries and the compulsion of others. However, they should think as to what will remain of their religious and moral position if they support the attack of the Christians and the Jews on a Muslim country like Afghanistan. The orders of Islamic shari'ah [jurisprudence] for such individuals, organizations, and countries are clear and all the scholars of the Muslim brotherhood are unanimous on them. We will do the same, which is being ordered by the Amir ol-Momenin [the commander of the faithful] Mola Omar and the Islamic scholars. The hearts of the people of Muslim countries are beating with the call of jihad. We are grateful to them. Ummat: The losses caused in the attacks in New York and Washington have proved that giving an economic blow to the US is not too difficult. US experts admit that a few more such attacks can bring down the American economy. Why is al-Qa'idah not targeting their economic pillars? Usamah: I have already said that we are not hostile to the United States. We are against the system, which makes other nations slaves of the United States, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom. This system is totally in control of the American Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is simply that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the principles and laws laid by them. So, the punishment should reach Israel. In fact, it is Israel, which is giving a blood bath to innocent Muslims and the US is not uttering a single word. Ummat: Why is harm not caused to the enemies of Islam through other means, apart from the armed struggle? For instance, inciting the Muslims to boycott Western products, banks, shipping lines, and TV channels. Usamah: The first thing is that Western products could only be boycotted when the Muslim fraternity is fully awakened and organized. Secondly, the Muslim companies should become self-sufficient in producing goods equal to the products of Western companies. Economic boycott of the West is not possible unless economic self-sufficiency is attained and substitute products are brought out. You see that wealth is scattered all across the Muslim world but not a single TV channel has been acquired which can preach Islamic injunctions according to modern requirements and attain an international influence. Muslim traders and philanthropists should make it a point that if the weapon of public opinion is to be used, it is to be kept in the hand. Today's world is of public opinion and the fates of nations are determined through its pressure. Once the tools for building public opinion are obtained, everything that you asked for can be done. Ummat: The entire propaganda about your struggle has so far been made by the Western media. But no information is being received from your sources about the network of Al-Qa'idah and its jihadi successes. Would you comment? Usamah: In fact, the Western media is left with nothing else. It has no other theme to survive for a long time. Then we have many other things to do. The struggle for jihad and the successes are for the sake of Allah and not to annoy His bondsmen. Our silence is our real propaganda. Rejections, explanations, or corrigendum only waste your time and through them, the enemy wants you to engage in things which are not of use to you. These things are pulling you away from your cause. The Western media is unleashing such a baseless propaganda, which make us surprise but it reflects on what is in their hearts and gradually they themselves become captive of this propaganda. They become afraid of it and begin to cause harm to themselves. Terror is the most dreaded weapon in modern age and the Western media is mercilessly using it against its own people. It can add fear and helplessness in the psyche of the people of Europe and the United States. It means that what the enemies of the United States cannot do, its media is doing that. You can understand as to what will be the performance of the nation in a war, which suffers from fear and helplessness. Ummat: What will the impact of the freeze of al-Qa'idah accounts by the US? Usamah: God opens up ways for those who work for Him. Freezing of accounts will not make any difference for Al-Qa'idah or other jihad groups. With the grace of Allah, al-Qa'idah has more than three such alternative financial system, which are all separate and totally independent from each other. This system is operating under the patronage of those who love jihad. What to say of the United States, even the combined world cannot budge these people from their path. These people are not in hundreds but in thousands and millions. Al-Qa'idah comprises of such modern educated youths who are aware of the cracks inside the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their hands. These are the very flaws of the Western fiscal system, which are becoming a noose for it and this system could not recuperate in spite of the passage of so many days. Ummat: Are there other safe areas other than Afghanistan, where you can continue jihad? Usamah: There are areas in all parts of the world where strong jihadi forces are present, from Indonesia to Algeria, from Kabul to Chechnya, from Bosnia to Sudan, and from Burma to Kashmir. Then it is not the problem of my person. I am helpless fellowman of God, constantly in the fear of my accountability before God. It is not the question of Usamah but of Islam and, in Islam too, of jihad. Thanks to God, those waging a jihad can walk today with their heads raised. Jihad was still present when there was no Usamah and it will remain as such even when Usamah is no longer there. Allah opens up ways and creates loves in the hearts of people for those who walk on the path of Allah with their lives, property, and children. Believe it, through jihad, a man gets everything he desires. And the biggest desire of a Muslim is the after life. Martyrdom is the shortest way of attaining an eternal life. Ummat: What do you say about the Pakistan government policy on Afghanistan attack? Usamah: We are thankful to the Momin and valiant people of Pakistan who erected a blockade in front of the wrong forces and stood in the first file of battle. Pakistan is a great hope for the Islamic brotherhood. Its people are awakened, organized, and rich in the spirit of faith. They backed Afghanistan in its war against the Soviet Union and extended every help to the mojahedin and the Afghan people. Then these are very Pakistanis who are standing shoulder by shoulder with the Taleban. If such people emerge in just two countries, the domination of the West will diminish in a matter of days. Our hearts beat with Pakistan and, God forbid, if a difficult time comes we will protect it with our blood. Pakistan is sacred for us like a place of worship. We are the people of jihad and fighting for the defence of Pakistan is the best of all jihads to us. It does not matter for us as to who rules Pakistan. The important thing is that the spirit of jihad is alive and stronger in the hearts of the Pakistani people. Source: Karachi Ummat in Urdu 28 Sep 01

http://www.vnunet.com/News/1125766 By James Middleton vnunet.com [02-10-2001] The impact of Code Red and related viruses such as Nimda has caused over 150,000 IIS-based websites on around 80,000 different machines to disappear from the internet. It has also resulted in the closure of one of the most visible proponents of Microsoft technology for mass hosting. According to the most recent Netcraft web server report, released this week, a significant number of sites running IIS fell off the web during the Code Red crisis. The number of IIS servers hooked up to the internet went down even more when Webjump, an IIS-based virtual hosting service, went under. At the time it died, Webjump hosted around 280,000 sites. Microsoft suffered a further blow on the back of this when analyst Gartner Group issued a strongly worded advisory recommending IIS users to evaluate alternative products. Only around 2000 of the 80,000 IP addresses running IIS that disappeared turned up running a competing web server, indicating that users have yet to react to Gartner's advice. Despite evidence to suggest that administrators have been securing their servers throughout a period of heightened worm activity, Netcraft's research "shows that numbers of vulnerable Microsoft IIS sites are actually starting to rise again, after the initial shock and disruption of Code Red prompted many sites to patch for the first time", said the company. Of those high profile sites seen to switch from Microsoft platforms to Linux, the most noticeable are search engine Infoseek, and the FBI, which is pushing the secure Linux bandwagon anyway. But the report did show that Microsoft still owns almost 50 per cent of the web server market, while Linux is in second place with almost 30 per cent. Next is Solaris and BSD with seven per cent and six per cent respectively. "The trend is of Linux steadily increasing, Windows maintaining a large share, and the others slowly losing share," said Netcraft. But while Microsoft may have the lion's share on a per machine basis, on a per site basis Apache is king. Because a great majority of the world's websites are located at hosting and co-location companies, and technically sophisticated hosting companies can run several thousand websites on a single computer, the result is more sites running Apache. On this level, Apache holds 60 per cent of the market, while Microsoft only manages to hang on to 30 per cent. Netcraft's September 2001 survey was based on data gathered from 32,398,046 websites and can be seen here. [http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ ]

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| A Cold Look at Chilled Speech
| By Mark Anderson
| 2:00 am  Oct 3, 2001 PDT
|
| When he finished his manuscript on copyright protections in the 
| digital age last Thanksgiving, Siva Vaidhyanathan knew some things 
| would change before its Oct 1 publication date.
|
| Then came a Tuesday in September.
|
| Questioning copyright policy may seem only a distraction with the 
| World Trade Center a heap of rubble. But if issues such as freedom are 
| truly at stake, what prouder freedom do Americans proclaim than that 
| of free speech?
|
| His book 
| <http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/authbook.msql?$string&book=0814788068>,
| Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How 
| It Threatens Creativity, presents a clear and historically based 
| argument against the push to transform American intellectual property 
| law into a new zone of zero tolerance.
|
| With Americans appearing to welcome Big Brother -- in some form -- if 
| it means better protection against terrorism, Vaidhyanathan's book 
| arrives at an interesting time.
|
| "It's hard to ask people to pay attention to the state of music in 
| America right now," Vaidhyanathan said. "However, the larger issue is 
| about the richness of our democratic culture."
|
| As more and more "speech" goes digital and as those digits get locked 
| down with increasingly stronger clickwrap -- copyright and copy 
| protection measures -- speech faces the very impediments the 
| Constitution's framers took pains to avoid, Vaidhyanathan says.
|
| "It's very clear that reckless copyright enforcement can chill 
| speech," he said. "The message of my book is that we've gone too far. 
| There are ways in which the copyright system becomes an engine for 
| democratic culture. But once you increase the protection to an absurd 
| level, you end up having a negative effect on this process."
|
| One day before the attacks, all systems were go 
|< http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46671,00.html >on the 
| souped-up revision to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- a bill 
| that proposed to outlaw any digital electronic device or PC that did 
| not have copy protection hardwired into it.
|
| After the attacks, a shift in priorities came that leaves the 
| "Security Systems Standard & Certification Act" (SSSCA) 
| <http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.html> in limbo. 
| Communications Daily now rates the chances that the SSSCA will even 
| show its face on Capitol Hill anytime this session as "unlikely."
|
| That suits Vaidhyanathan just fine.
|
| "The bill as written is so sweeping that it would outlaw Linux -- or 
| any sort of open-source activity," he said. "It would require us to 
| fundamentally change the nature of the personal computer.
|
| "It seems like a really short-sighted policy proposal, and I can't 
| imagine that the personal computer industry is going to stand by and 
| let this happen."
|
| Another development that appeared too late to make the book was the US 
| Supreme Court's decision on New York Times v Tasini 
| <http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44736,00.html>, a copyright 
| case that recognized print journalists' right to compensation when 
| their work is republished on the Web.
|
| Vaidhyanathan was "agnostic" about the ruling, especially concerning 
| Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's majority opinion 
| <http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-201.ZO.html>.
|
| "I really didn't like the fundamentalist tone of Justice Ginsburg's 
| opinion," he said. "She dismissed any appeal to a greater public good 
| in matters of copyright and she made it seem that copyright is only a 
| matter of private -- not public -- interest."
|
| On the other hand, Vaidhyanathan hopes the tone set in Justice John 
| Paul Stevens' dissent can carry forward into future rulings -- and 
| laws.
|
| "Justice Stevens actually wrote one of the most historically informed, 
| nuanced and reasonable opinions 
| <http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-201.ZD.html> I have ever 
| read about copyright," Vaidhyanathan said. "He basically said that 
| copyright is for the public, and we have to take the effects of our 
| decisions into account. It can't just be about the interests of the 
| copyright owners."
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"to the deapest part called the center of the earth by this wekend north east region will be destroyed new providance soon to fall apart." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2325-2001Oct3.html

Thursday, October 04, 2001

I done stuck the irdial mp3's on the web. Theyr'e at http://193.130.125.110/irdial/ please don't link to here - the files may move, there should be something on the irdial site that you can point links to soon. Also please don't try and download 20 files at the same time bandwidth is limited and if you want the files to stay here you have to play nicely.

We have been saying over and over, that the problems in different parts of the world need to find thier own natural internal solutions, as water finds its own level in a natural water table. A perfect example of this is IRAN. This state, after having a religious revolution and being top of the list of pariah states, has, through its own internal processes, become a "moderate" state. So moderate is Iran, that many countries trade with it as a matter of policy (France) and now the UK is re-opening relations with it. This is the same Iran that had its embassy explosively raided and destroyed by the SAS in central London. The same Iran of Ayatollah Khomeni. The same Iran that took American hostages, and humiliated the Carter government. Now, all of that is forgotten. This moderate state, this Iran that is headed for unprecedented prosperity and fairness under Islamic law could not ever have come about if any outside state had interfered in its creation. The absence of outside influence is what gave the Iranians the chance to become a stable and moderate state, on their own terms, and there is no reason that the same will not happen in other parts of the world. The ten year war with Iraq was over, and it was only a matter of time before peace, reconciliation with Iraq was to follow. The Gulf war put pay to that, but it would have eventually happened, and probably will happen in the future. If we are to have lasting peace throughout the world, all countries need to come to a moderate state of government at their own pace and in their own time. This natural gravitation to order and stability can only be achieved if the system in question is left to find its own mode of operation. Everyone knows that a pendulum will only cease oscillation if it is left alone; all systems have a natural tendency to move toward stability. Every perturbance, interference, push, pull and breath does nothing but delay the arrival of the time when stability arrives. The wonderful thing about non-interference is that no one looses. Pushing a pendulum takes energy. Energy is expensive. Stop pushing, and you stop spending; you save money to use on your own infrastructure. Your enemies stop being your enemies. They start to buy from you. Everything and everyone calms down. For now, we can see the results of interference and perturbation. A small group of people, who were not the leaders of a country, not members of a normal army, who were totally unknown, have managed to put ONE MILLION PEOPLE OUT OF WORK with a single act. This should give everybody an indication how high the stakes are. The task now is to start to unwind the tension and reverse the behavior that is manufacturing these angry people. For certain, there is at least one more generation of angry young men to follow this one. That could be the last one, depending on what actions are taken today.

...Another problem with the 'logic' is that the rest of the world may not necessarily deploy technology in the way that we do. One example of this is the age-old underground banking system that is widespread in South Asia and among Chinese communities in East Asia [*]. No amount of escrowed keys and deployment of sigint will help in tracing the movement of cash through it. It allows money to be moved quickly across borders and leaves almost no paper trail. Known as "hundi" in Pakistan and "fei qian" in China it works as follows [*]: A client approaches an underground bank in a major Asian city, usually a travel agent or a goldsmith's shop. He deposits an amount in US dollars to be remitted to an associate in another country. The shop gives the sender a "receipt" or chit which might be something as simple as a specially marked ticket stub or a low-value currency note. The chit is mailed to the recipient in the other country who then presents it to an associated travel agent or goldsmith there. He receives in exchange the amount in local currency equivalent to the amount of US dollrs deposited by the sender of the chit. Creating a doubly ironic link to the cryptographic interests of this list, one analyst is quoted [*] as saying that the "Investigation into bin Laden and his finances will provide a modern Rosetta Stone on how to attack terrorists' financial networks". References [*] Far Eastern Economic Review, Oct 4, 2001, page 28.

Wednesday, October 03, 2001

Net surveillance 'fatally flawed' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1569000/1569874.stm UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says campaigners against stronger internet surveillance laws have hurt the anti-terror fight. He suggested that with stronger powers, the security services might have detected some of the 11 suicide hijackers who are now known to have passed through the UK on their way to the US. But Caspar Bowden of the Foundation for Information Policy Research argues that the main methods suggested for dealing with criminal use of internet encryption are fatally flawed: ---****--- Following the terrible events of 11 September, Jack Straw has described opponents of the internet surveillance legislation he enacted last year as "na�ve". Both government and broadcasters have framed the debate as a platitudinous "balance" between civil liberties and public safety. But this was always a false dichotomy - the main thrust of criticism against the RIP Act is that it is completely ineffective. Four methods have been suggested for dealing with criminal use of encryption. Three are fatally flawed, but more importantly, they try to solve to wrong problem. The 'back-door' =============== All encryption would be prohibited except an officially sanctioned version which contains a secret weakness allowing all traffic to be broken. Flaw: If the secret of the backdoor is ever leaked, the security of the entire communications infrastructure would be blown wide open and could not be repaired or quickly replaced. 'Key escrow' ============ Everybody using encryption must deposit a copy of their key in a huge database. Any particular message could thus be unscrambled, under warrant. Flaw : An encrypted message is like a letter in an impregnable envelope, which can itself be enclosed in another envelope. Without opening the outer envelope, it is impossible to know whether a particular message has already been encrypted with an undeclared key, before it was encrypted with a registered key. Moreover, the vast majority of computer scientists believe that a global integrated system to escrow billions of keys is operationally infeasible. Power to demand decryption ========================== The RIP Act gives powers to demand decryption of any message or data, whether or not a person is suspected of any crime. Flaw: An encrypted message is totally opaque - nothing can be inferred about the contents which would help a court rationally separate the innocent from the guilty. Anybody could be jailed for two years on a false accusation, without a shred of evidence, merely for failing to prove they have forgotten something. And a terrorist is obviously not going to surrender a key to evidence which would lead to conviction on a much more serious charge. Attack the end-points ===================== If the device either sending or receiving the message can be identified, then if it can be "got at". Computers can be bugged in hardware, software, or possibly hacked remotely. Intelligence agencies and the military will not trust the police with these black arts, which will need unprecedentedly stringent supervision, since their use would corrupt the legal validity of any chain of evidence. Computer scientists and security specialists understand the seriousness of what is at stake, and have wrestled with these dilemmas for a decade with no breakthrough. Details of security policy are often necessarily secret, but the reasoning refuting three of the four options is unshakeable. None of these options can prevent hiding of information or steganography. Spies and terrorists have long used tradecraft such as chalk marks on a park bench, or everyday language with a veiled meaning. In cyberspace, these equate to an innocent phrase in a chat-room, or weaving the bits comprising a message into a sound or picture file so it cannot be detected. Without knowing who and what to look for, it is impossible to screen for every variation. Those who want a nostalgic return to the era of phone-tapping are either na�ve, or impervious to reason. If you want to stop terrorist cells communicating via the internet, dismantle it. Encryption is irrelevant.

HAMBURG, Germany (CNN) -- German intelligence services intercepted a phone call September 11 after the terrorist attacks on the United States in which two followers of Osama bin Laden applauded the deadly assaults, a German intelligence official said. One of the individuals in the phone call made a reference to having "sent 30," but it was unclear whether that was a reference to the number of people involved in the terrorist plot. There were 19 suspected hijackers who died with their victims. "What they were planning or whether others were still planning further attacks, or whether attacks could not be carried out remains open," the official said. The official said the phone call did not originate in Germany or any other European nation, but refused to identify the country or region. The official did not say what language was spoken in the phone conversation. The source said that German intelligence officials immediately alerted their U.S. counterparts and are working closely with American authorities on the matter.

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