[107562] in Cypherpunks
U.S.s Y2K FIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DOOM Anonymous Untraceable User)
Sun Jan 17 14:26:11 1999
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:10:00 +0100 (CET)
From: DOOM Anonymous Untraceable User <nobody@seclab.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: DOOM Anonymous Untraceable User <nobody@seclab.com>
U.S.'s Y2K FIX
U.S. state governments are working overtime to indemnify themselves against
lawsuits arising from computer system failures engendered by the Y2K
problem. Nevada, Florida, Georgia and Virginia already have enacted
legislation barring Y2K lawsuits against state governments, and similar
legislation is under consideration in New York, California, Illinois and a
handful of other states. Supporters of such bills say they're needed to
protect taxpayers from potentially huge judgments. "We wanted to make sure
that if the state did all it could to prevent a problem that the people of
Georgia wouldn't suffer," says Georgia state Senator Sonny Perdue.
Meanwhile, state chambers of commerce say it's not fair to immunize state
governments while leaving businesses still liable. And the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce has proposed that Congress create a new federal court modeled after
bankruptcy court to handle what's expected to be a flood of Y2K lawsuits.
(Wall Street Journal 15 Jan 99)
"Mary had a crypto key,
she kept it in escrow,
and everything that Mary said,
the Feds were sure to know." -- Sam Simpson
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL
@k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_
]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256;
&S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}
