[104406] in Cypherpunks
Re: What's up with algebra.com?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Sun Oct 18 22:51:00 1998
To: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:43:46 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199810182353.TAA07347@camel7.mindspring.com> from "John Young" at Oct 18, 98 07:44:37 pm
From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Reply-To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
As far as algebra.com is concerned, the list went down because
my upstream site just installed anti-relaying rules, and everything
going to algebra.com was rejected. Also, sendmail was not setuid
and could not create mqueue files.
I wish I could boast receiving attention from the IRS/BATF or
whatever, but so far i has not happened.
igor
John Young wrote:
>
>
> What with the Feds now going after CJ for attempted
> murder of federal officials (film ad overkill!), Jeff Gordon
> soliciting cypherpunk subscribers to flesh that fancy,
> and one CDR operator flattered with a subpoena, it'd be
> prudent to have a way to check on whether a CDR node
> has been taken down or turned, and the operator hogtied
> with the system as evidence (or forced to run a sting to
> gather it), before a clamp's put on telling what's going on.
>
> May be too late, too late.
>
> Recall it's a major offense for revealing placement of a
> wiretap, surveillance or a covert investigation -- especially
> if you're assisting, willingly or unwillingly.
>
> Not that one should advocate hiding what might be construed
> as evidence or exposing underbelly work that's ordered concealed.
> Why that might be taken to be pushing a conspiracy against
> WMD-crazed authority rather than promoting personal hygiene
> with lots of sunshine and vigorous exercise of rights to fanciful
> imaginings of what a world would be like without minders galore.
>
> Whistling in the dark, mind you.
>
> Consider that there are 118,000 federal prisoners. That's a very
> big inhospitality business, and its growing, private and feds rubbing
> hands and futures. For an overview of exactly how the chain
> operates (in case you're planning a stay or a stock buy) gander
> the list of its bountiful rules and regs:
>
> http://jya.com/bop-progstat.htm
>
> Inmates are forbidden access to the Internet (PS 1241.02 Internet
> and the World Wide Web), however, they are encouraged to do
> creative writing (PS 5350.07 Inmate Manuscripts), so Jim Bell,
> CJ and a few of us deserve a suite overlooking the garden of
> evil.
>
>
>
- Igor.
