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Linux-Announce Digest #964
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Linux-Announce Digest #964, Volume #4 Sun, 28 Nov 2004 01:13:05 EST
Contents:
ANNOUNCE: Puppy Linux 0.9.7 released (Barry Kauler)
Re: ANNOUNCE: Puppy Linux 0.9.7 released (Barry Kauler)
Re: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 4th December 2004 (Mark Suter)
Re: eoconv 1.2 released: convert between Esperanto encodings and transliterations (Tristan Miller)
Re: RE COMMERCIAL: Holiday's Lowest Price Linux System-$269 (sales)
Re: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (paulf)
Re: RE COMMERCIAL: Hottest Cool Looking 3D Linux Gaming System (sales)
Re: RE COMMERCIAL: The Lowest Priced Linux Systems For This Holiday (sales)
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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:17:02 CST
From: Barry Kauler <bkauler@goosee.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Puppy Linux 0.9.7 released
Version 0.9.7 of this tiny 50M distro now out.
Now has Gaim.
Home page:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy
News page:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/news.htm
Regards,
Barry Kauler
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From: Barry Kauler <bkauler@goosee.com>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Puppy Linux 0.9.7 released
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:10:29 GMT
the
rest and work on it out of the Dictionary system.
He or she then translates the message - either in its entirety or as a
summary called a 'gist' - and writes it into the standard format of all
intelligence reports produced anywhere within the UKUSA network.
This is the 'front end' of the Dictionary system, using a commercially
available program (called BRS Search). It extracts the different categories
of intercepted messages (known just as 'intercept') from the large GCSB
computer database of intercept from the New Zealand stations and overseas
agencies.
[ I interrupt this book excerpt to bring you retrieval results for
"BRS Search" from the www.altavista.digital.com search engine:
BRS/Search is designed to manage large collections
of unstructured information, allowing multiple
users to quickly and efficiently search, retrieve
and analyze stored documents simply by entering a
word, concept, phrase, or combination of phrases,
in any length. The product offers the most
powerful indexing structure available today, with
users able to pinpoint critical information in
seconds, even across millions of documents in
numerous databases.
Hmmm. Sounds like the search engine I just used.
You give the search engine keywords to search for, and can specify
exclusion logic keywords. e.g. "digital AND NOT watch"
]
Before anything goes into the database, the actual searching and selection of
intercepted messages has already occurred - in the Dictionary computers at
the New Zealand and overseas stations.
This is an enormous mass of material - literally all the business, government
and personal messages that the station catches.
The computers automatically search through everything as it arrives at the
station.
This is the work of the Dictionary p
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From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 4th December 2004
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:38:56 GMT
that USED to be owned by AT&T
did not even qualify for action. Salomon legal stated Salomon has a lower
obligation for third-party copyrights than they did for software they
contracted for themselves, like Sybase. Salomon didn't have a UNIX source
license, so obviously the employee had gotten it elsewhere.
In the following statistic, it was the only non-Salomon source code.
We went from zero monitoring of Internet email traffic to...
> On 3/21/96 we had our first security incident report.
>
> By 3/26/96 we had an astonishing 38,000 lines of proprietary source code
> outbound.
>
> We were mentally unprepared. Figuratively we were pulling our hair out
> wondering when the madness would stop.
>
> It never did.
As I said, the results of keyword monitoring were stunning.
If you look up computer security literature and read up on security incidents,
you'll notice none are more articulate about inside-employee incidents other
than to describe the people as "disgruntled employees".
Wrong.
I'll go over some of the major categories of incidents I encountered.
Keyword monitoring is abstract to most people; these results show
how powerful the technique is.
Here are two from the category:
o People innocently trying to get work done.
This usually happens between the programmer and a third-party vendor.
SISS stands for 'Salomon Information Security Services'.
The configurations and passwords to Salomon's network control devices - the
heart of the network - flew out of our Internet connection to vendor Cisco
in a seemingly unstoppable whirlwind. This was the fourth report in a row.
********** begin excerpt from 'Corruption at Salomon Brothers' **********
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From: Tristan Miller <psychonaut@nothingisreal.com>
Subject: Re: eoconv 1.2 released: convert between Esperanto encodings and transliterations
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:09:56 GMT
49 basis/include/AlphaIOField.h
49 basis/include/AlphaNumIOField.h
82 basis/include/AmountFormat.h
47 basis/include/AmtQtyEntryPad.h
38 basis/include/AppSessionMessage.h
292 basis/include/AppUI.h
71 basis/include/Customization.h
[large snip here]
131 basis/include/Date.h
77 basis/include/DateEntryPad.h
54 basis/include/DateIOField.h
33 basis/include/DefaultButton.h
63 basis/include/DocLayout.h
1144 basis/lib/base/basis_ios.cc
398 basis/lib/base/AmountFormat.cc
157 basis/lib/base/TemplateField.cc
136 basis/lib/base/AssocArry.cc
18184 total
His last day was XXXXXX 1996.
His new job and responsibilities:
> Project management of a new XXXXX project is what I'll be
> doing at XXXXX XXXXX (a bank from <country> ranked in the top 20).
> I'll start by consulting ($$/hour plus 1.5*OT) for TTTTTTTT.
> After that we talk about them invoking their right-to-hire clause.
> I might make VP. The project is great inasmuch as I'm starting it
> from scratch; it's not only not burdened by legacy code, but I
> can even pick the hardware. I'm "up" but also worried about the
> responsibility.
>
> The application is X risk analysis and XX for investors. It connects
> to a front end for a trading system.
>
> I put a lot of working into talking my new boss into me giving the
> normal 2 weeks notice at Salomon (they wanted me yesterday), because
> my current project is nearing a critical point. But my Salomon boss
> said just do a handoff now and leave.
>
> I am upset. I was trying to be professional.
Boy, email is one cheap detective!
Anyway, that seems the full scoop.
---guy
********** end excerpt from 'Corruption at Salomon Brothers' **********
Notice my 'Boy, em
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From: sales <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: Re: RE COMMERCIAL: Holiday's Lowest Price Linux System-$269
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:59:11 GMT
') from the large GCSB
computer database of intercept from the New Zealand stations and overseas
agencies.
[ I interrupt this book excerpt to bring you retrieval results for
"BRS Search" from the www.altavista.digital.com search engine:
BRS/Search is designed to manage large collections
of unstructured information, allowing multiple
users to quickly and efficiently search, retrieve
and analyze stored documents simply by entering a
word, concept, phrase, or combination of phrases,
in any length. The product offers the most
powerful indexing structure available today, with
users able to pinpoint critical information in
seconds, even across millions of documents in
numerous databases.
Hmmm. Sounds like the search engine I just used.
You give the search engine keywords to search for, and can specify
exclusion logic keywords. e.g. "digital AND NOT watch"
]
Before anything goes into the database, the actual searching and selection of
intercepted messages has already occurred - in the Dictionary computers at
the New Zealand and overseas stations.
This is an enormous mass of material - literally all the business, government
and personal messages that the station catches.
The computers automatically search throu
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From: paulf@quillandmouse.com (paulf)
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:19:41 GMT
who spoke with Senator Arlene Spector said that "Noone's willing
# to take the political step."
#
# Instead, the biggest federal funding for AIDS prevention in 1996 went to
# programs urging teenagers to abstain from sex ["have sex outside marriage
# and you could DIE"].
#
# The National Institute of Health concluded: "The behavior placing the
# public health at greatest risk may be occurring in legislative and other
# decision making bodies. Millions of unnecessary deaths will occur as a
# result."
#
# The Surgeon General has the power to revoke the ban unilaterally.
Ever see the full page ad showing a group of sweet kids,
asking you to spot which one will become the drug pusher?
That's how the government views us little people: all are potentially guilty.
The government hysteria over drugs has led to students being suspended
for having Advil, under school Zero Tolerance for drugs policy.
Reefer madness leads to Advil insanity.
It is a "gateway" madness. ;-)
No wonder kids don't respect the government's anti-drug crusades.
They are subject to random drug testing if they want to play sports.
* Boston Globe, June 12, 1997
*
* PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - A full-time plainclothes police officer and
* drug-sniffing dogs will be put to work at Portsmouth High School to
* control drug use. The plan also calls for volunteer drug testing of
* pupils and creating a Scholastic Crimeline, a tip service for the
* kids to snitch on friends, parents.
1984 mea
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From: sales <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: Re: RE COMMERCIAL: Hottest Cool Looking 3D Linux Gaming System
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:03:59 GMT
businesses and
government and private organizations that innocently entrust their
communications to these companies.
ECHELON is a staggeringly comprehensive and highly secret global spying
system. Around the world there are networks of spy stations and spy
satellites which can intercept communications anywhere on the planet.
P18
Over the last 10 years a lot has been heard in New Zealand about the dangers
of 'bureaucratic capture', about senior officials controlling their ministers
rather than the other way around. The area of government activity described
in this book is the ultimate example of bureaucratic capture.
Politicians, whom the public has presumed will be monitoring the intelligence
organizations on their behalf, have been systematically denied the information
required to do that job.
If a democratic society wants to control its secret agencies, it is essential
that the public and politicians have the information and the will to do so.
P113
Good encryption systems, such as PGP, developed privately by American Phil
Zimmerman, are publicly available, although they are still used only by
relatively few people in the know.
The UKUSA agencies have been attempting to curb the spread of this technology,
which is a major threat to their influence, so far without enough success to
stop it.
It remains to be seen how much the public can find a technological answer to
m
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From: sales <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: Re: RE COMMERCIAL: The Lowest Priced Linux Systems For This Holiday
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:09:24 GMT
"It's a lot
* cheaper, it can't be counterfeited. It's very lightweight, and it's
* impossible to lose. It's even waterproof."
*
* "All we have to do," Anderson continued, "is tattoo an identification
* number on the inside of everybody's arm."
*
* His reference was to the tattooing of numbers on victims in Nazi
* concentration camps. Survivors still bear the dreaded tattoo markings
* to this day.
*
* Mr. Anderson described the stunned reaction of those present, "There were
* several gasps around the table. A couple cabinet members looked as if they
* had been slapped. No one said anything for a long time."
*
* Ronald Reagan, a consummately wise politician who professed a belief in
* Bible prophecy, caught the implication [about The Mark of the Devil].
*
* He then hushed the cabinet and efficiently dismissed the National ID Card
* proposal by sardonically remarking, "Maybe we should just brand all babies."
"Those that give up essential liberty for a little
security, deserve neither
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