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PRIVACY GROUP THREATENS BOYCOTT OF INTEL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pallas Anonymous Remailer)
Sun Jan 31 15:12:52 1999
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:47:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Pallas Anonymous Remailer <athena@cyberpass.net>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Pallas Anonymous Remailer <athena@cyberpass.net>
PRIVACY GROUP THREATENS BOYCOTT OF INTEL
Unsatisfied with a decision by Intel to give computer owners more control
over the ID feature of its next-generation Pentium III chip, privacy
advocates at Electronic Privacy Information Center are demanding that the
U.S. Federal Trade Commission recall the chips -- and are threatening to
organize a boycott of Intel unless their demands are met. To facilitate
electronic commerce, each chip has a unique identification number
detectable
whenever the computer user connects to the Internet. Intel's original
intent was to have the feature turned on unless the individual user
specifically turned it off; when privacy groups complained that the
feature
would allow marketers and government agencies to track a person's moves in
cyberspace, Intel switched its plan, so that the feature would be turned
off
unless the user voluntarily turned it on. (New York Times 29 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
...
"I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, without anyone knowing beforehand. If there still had been portable money, it would have been more difficult.
"It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time.
"Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control."
...
"That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on."
- Offred, _The Handmaid's Tale_
ISBN 0-449-21260-2
#!/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]}
