From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Mon Jan 24 16:12:34 1994 Received: from toad.com by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA05257; Mon, 24 Jan 94 16:12:30 -0800 Received: by toad.com id AA26213; Mon, 24 Jan 94 15:46:41 PST Received: by toad.com id AA26157; Mon, 24 Jan 94 15:44:18 PST Return-Path: Received: from uu5.psi.com ([38.145.226.3]) by toad.com id AA26153; Mon, 24 Jan 94 15:44:12 PST Received: from washofc.UUCP by uu5.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA03532 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 94 18:26:10 -0500 Received: from OFFICE (QM 2.5.1) by washofc.cpsr.org (UMCP\QM 2.0) id AA02546; Mon, 24 Jan 1994 18:01:42 EST Message-Id: <00541.2842279302.2546@washofc.cpsr.org> Organization: CPSR Washington Office X-Umcp-To: CPSR Crypto List From: Dave Banisar To: Cypherpunks List Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 17:59:34 EST Subject: Crypto Experts Oppose Clipp Status: RO Crypto Experts Oppose Clipper More than three dozen of the nation's leading cryptographers, computer security specialists and privacy experts today urged President Clinton to abandon the controversial Clipper encryption proposal. The letter was coordinated by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), which has long sought to open the issue of cryptography policy to public debate The group cited the secrecy surrounding the proposal, widespread public opposition to the plan and privacy concerns as reasons why the initiative should not go forward. The letter comes at a crucial point in the debate on cryptography policy. An internal Administration review of the issue is nearing completion and the National Security Agency (NSA) is moving forward with efforts to deploy Clipper technology in civilian agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service. CPSR has sponsored several public conferences on cryptography and privacy and has litigated Freedom of Informa- tion Act cases seeking the disclosure of relevant government documents. In one pending FOIA case, CPSR is challenging the secrecy of the Skipjack algorithm which underlies the Clipper proposal. For additional information, contact Dave Banisar, CPSR Washington, DC, (202) 544-9240, . ================================================================= January 24, 1994 The President The White House Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President, We are writing to you regarding the "Clipper" escrowed encryption proposal now under consideration by the White House. We wish to express our concern about this plan and similar technical standards that may be proposed for the nation's communications infrastructure. The current proposal was developed in secret by federal agencies primarily concerned about electronic surveillance, not privacy protection. Critical aspects of the plan remain classified and thus beyond public review. The private sector and the public have expressed nearly unanimous opposition to Clipper. In the formal request for comments conducted by the Department of Commerce last year, less than a handful of respondents supported the plan. Several hundred opposed it. If the plan goes forward, commercial firms that hope to develop new products will face extensive government obstacles. Cryptographers who wish to develop new privacy enhancing technologies will be discouraged. Citizens who anticipate that the progress of technology will enhance personal privacy will find their expectations unfulfilled. Some have proposed that Clipper be adopted on a voluntary basis and suggest that other technical approaches will remain viable. The government, however, exerts enormous influence in the marketplace, and the likelihood that competing standards would survive is small. Few in the user community believe that the proposal would be truly voluntary. The Clipper proposal should not be adopted. We believe that if this proposal and the associated standards go forward, even on a voluntary basis, privacy protection will be diminished, innovation will be slowed, government accountability will be lessened, and the openness necessary to ensure the successful development of the nation's communications infrastructure will be threatened. We respectfully ask the White House to withdraw the Clipper proposal. Sincerely, Public Interest and Civil Liberties Organizations Marc Rotenberg, CPSR Conrad Martin, Fund for Constitutional Government William Caming, privacy consultant Simon Davies, Privacy International Evan Hendricks, US Privacy Council Simona Nass, Society for Electronic Access Robert Ellis Smith, Privacy Journal Jerry Berman, Electronic Frontier Foundation Cryptographers and Security Experts Bob Bales, National Computer Security Association Jim Bidzos, RSA Data Security Inc. G. Robert Blakley, Texas A&M University Stephen Bryen, Secured Communications Technologies, Inc. David Chaum, Digicash George Davida, University of Wisconsin Whitfield Diffie, Sun Microsystems Martin Hellman, Stanford University Ingemar Ingemarsson, Universitetet i Linkvping Ralph C. Merkle, Xerox PARC William Hugh Murray, security consultant Peter G. Neumann, SRI International Bart Preneel, Katolieke Universiteit Ronald Rivest, MIT Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography (1993) Richard Schroeppel, University of Arizona Stephen Walker, Trusted Information Systems Philip Zimmermann, Boulder Software Engineering Industry and Academia Andrew Scott Beals, Telebit International Mikki Barry, InterCon Systems Corporation David Bellin, North Carolina A&T University Margaret Chon, Syracuse University College of Law Laura Fillmore, Online BookStore Scott Fritchie, Twin-Cities Free Net Gary Marx, University of Colorado Ronald B. Natalie, Jr, Sensor Systems Inc. Harold Joseph Highland, Computers & Security Doug Humphrey, Digital Express Group, Inc Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia Eric Roberts, Stanford University Jonathan Rosenoer, CyberLaw & CyberLex Alexis Rosen, Public Access Networks Corp. Steven Zorn, Pace University Law School (affiliations are for identification purposes only) From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Mon Jan 24 23:05:24 1994 Received: from toad.com by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA06502; Mon, 24 Jan 94 23:05:21 -0800 Received: by toad.com id AA02319; Mon, 24 Jan 94 22:46:45 PST Received: by toad.com id AA02200; Mon, 24 Jan 94 22:36:55 PST Return-Path: Received: from jarthur.Claremont.EDU ([134.173.42.1]) by toad.com id AA02196; Mon, 24 Jan 94 22:36:52 PST Message-Id: <9401250636.AA02196@toad.com> Subject: Re: Randomness of a bit string To: cypherpunks list Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 22:36:49 PST From: Eli Brandt In-Reply-To: <199401250337.TAA14525@mail.netcom.com>; from "Timothy C. May" at Jan 24, 94 7:37 pm X-Arcane-Subliminal-Header: fooquayleglorkpsilocybinrkbapinkyogsothothquux X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO > From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) > I don't believe this is overstating the case at all. To quote Gregory > Chaitin, from a context I cannot do justice here: "...leads to the > demonstration that a specific number cannot be proved random." Perhaps the context is relevant. Chaitin's `omega', for example, is Kolmogorov random (too bad!). (Omega is the sum over all x of m(x), where m(x) is the Solomonoff-Levin distribution.) > To see this another way, suppose an algorithm existed to always know > if a given number is "random" or not. Then application of this > algorithm to the natural numbers would presumably find the "smallest > random number," such as "729." (An inside joke.) But this smallest > random number would itself be intensely interesting and hardly random. This is an informal argument, using an informal definition of randomness. Presumably in this discussion we could standardize on Kolmogorov randomness, to which definition Berry's paradox does not apply. > --Tim May Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu From jerod23@well.sf.ca.us Tue Jan 25 06:55:04 1994 Received: from well.sf.ca.us by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA07510; Tue, 25 Jan 94 06:55:02 -0800 Received: from localhost (jerod23@localhost) by well.sf.ca.us (8.6.5/8.6.5) id GAA09198 for flesh@wps.com; Tue, 25 Jan 1994 06:54:59 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 06:54:59 -0800 From: Jerod Pore Message-Id: <199401251454.GAA09198@well.sf.ca.us> To: flesh@wps.com Subject: Re: pigdog magazine Status: RO Willdo. I'm writing up Pigdog for Wired. It's an awesome zine. I'll mention the gopher bit. Is it OK if I point to Pigdog from our gopher? From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Tue Jan 25 07:52:33 1994 Received: from toad.com by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA07605; Tue, 25 Jan 94 07:52:29 -0800 Received: by toad.com id AA10054; Tue, 25 Jan 94 07:16:51 PST Received: by toad.com id AA09972; Tue, 25 Jan 94 07:10:15 PST Return-Path: Received: from media.mit.edu (media-lab.media.mit.edu) by toad.com id AA09962; Tue, 25 Jan 94 07:10:07 PST Received: by media.mit.edu (5.57/DA1.0.4.amt) id AA21354; Tue, 25 Jan 94 10:10:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 10:10:01 -0500 From: "Alan (Miburi-san) Wexelblat" Message-Id: <9401251510.AA21354@media.mit.edu> X-Now-Playing: Silence X-Dj-In-The-House: Wex To: gnu@toad.com Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com In-Reply-To: John Gilmore's message of Mon, 24 Jan 94 14:39:35 -0800 <9401242239.AA25215@toad.com> Subject: NSA wants to buy 10,000-70,000 Clipper PCMCIA cards by March Status: RO I have a contact with some potential influence inside the IRS, especially on matters of purchasing and new technologies. If someone would care to write up a *short* precis covering both (a) why Skipjack-based PCMCIA cards are a bad idea and (b) what other alternatives can be purchased in a comparable time-frame and for comparable cost, I will send this info to my contact. --Alan Wexelblat, Reality Hacker, Author, and Cyberspace Bard Media Lab - Advanced Human Interface Group wex@media.mit.edu Voice: 617-258-9168 Page: 617-945-1842 an53607@anon.penet.fi All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Tue Jan 25 08:12:35 1994 Received: from toad.com by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA07639; Tue, 25 Jan 94 08:12:32 -0800 Received: by toad.com id AA10266; Tue, 25 Jan 94 07:36:52 PST Received: by toad.com id AA10263; Tue, 25 Jan 94 07:36:43 PST Return-Path: Received: from well.sf.ca.us by toad.com id AA10236; Tue, 25 Jan 94 07:36:23 PST Received: from localhost (tien@localhost) by well.sf.ca.us (8.6.5/8.6.5) id HAA16834; Tue, 25 Jan 1994 07:36:20 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 07:36:20 -0800 From: Lee Tien Message-Id: <199401251536.HAA16834@well.sf.ca.us> To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu Subject: for interesting people -- Sunday NYTimes Mag re: encryption Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, perc-strategy@silverton.berkeley.edu Status: RO Sunday's NYTMagazine had an amusing bit in its "Sunday" column, titled: HTIJX KTW PNIX "The scrambling and decoding of electronic communication is one of the hottest issues in cyberpolitics. The Government would like to have the key to all communications. Export of cryptographic software is restricted. Both software companies and independent groups like the Cypherpunks argue for the rights of individual privacy." "All of which makes Microsoft's new Creative Writer software for children intriguing. It includes some primitive cryptographic tools to enable kids to encode what they write ... to hide it from curious siblings and F.B.I. agents." What surprised me was the next line -- "Theoretically, this product would come under export restrictions, even though the code would not challenge a spy, let alone a bright 9-year-old." After explaining what a Caesar substitution cipher is, the bit goes on to note that "Presumably, Microsoft will not face any difficulties in exporting its product even though it comes from the K.G.B. (Kids Games Business) at Microsoft. On the other hand, it does instruct the youth of America in the basics of electronic privacy." In case you're wondering, the encrypted phrase is "Codes for Kids." Lee Tien From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Tue Jan 25 12:07:00 1994 Received: from toad.com by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08236; Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:06:58 -0800 Received: by toad.com id AA14714; Tue, 25 Jan 94 11:46:52 PST Received: by toad.com id AA14657; Tue, 25 Jan 94 11:43:48 PST Return-Path: Received: from netmail2.microsoft.com ([131.107.1.13]) by toad.com id AA14649; Tue, 25 Jan 94 11:43:43 PST Received: by netmail2.microsoft.com (5.65/25-eef) id AA23481; Tue, 25 Jan 94 11:44:25 -0800 Message-Id: <9401251944.AA23481@netmail2.microsoft.com> Received: by netmail2 using fxenixd 1.0 Tue, 25 Jan 94 11:44:24 PST X-Msmail-Message-Id: F48CE4D8 X-Msmail-Conversation-Id: F48CE4D8 X-Msmail-Wiseremark: MS Mail on Windows NT on MIPS R4000 From: Dave Hart To: cypherpunks@toad.com, hfinney@shell.portal.com Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 11:41:14 pst Subject: Re: NSA museum now open, if you can find it Status: RO ---------- | From: Hal | | That museum sounds fascinating. I got to visit the NSA's so-called | "Friendship Annex" once on business. This is not at Fort Meade itself, | but a few miles away, to keep the impure and unclean away from the holy | temple itself. | | Whoever named this place had quite a sense of irony; [...] As documented in _The Puzzle Palace_, the name derives from Friendship International Airport, now known as Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The Annex buildings are at the end of one of the runways. Dave Hart davehart@microsoft.com Not a Microsoft spokesperson From tomj@fnord.tlg.org Tue Jan 25 13:11:20 1994 Received: from tlg.org by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08560; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:11:17 -0800 Received: from localhost by fnord.tlg.org (8.3/wps.com-hackery) id NAA01182; Tue, 25 Jan 1994 13:10:29 -0800 From: tomj@fnord.tlg.org (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <199401252110.NAA01182@tlg.org> Subject: your phone book! To: flesh@wps.com Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 13:10:28 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 237 Status: RO Somehow I picked up yr phone book when I took the PC cards last night... they're here... I'll see you tonight. IF you drop by, it's on my little table... -- The Little Garden, an S.F. Bay Area Internetwork -- email to info@tlg.org From GREENWA6892@cobra.uni.edu Tue Jan 25 13:23:19 1994 Received: from cobra.uni.edu by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08626; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:23:16 -0800 Received: from cobra.uni.edu by cobra.uni.edu (PMDF V4.2-13 #3072) id <01H83RM342YO8WZFTL@cobra.uni.edu>; Tue, 25 Jan 1994 15:23:54 CST Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 15:23:54 -0600 (CST) From: GREENWA6892@cobra.uni.edu Subject: Re: Hi To: flesh@wps.COM Message-Id: <01H83RM345SI8WZFTL@cobra.uni.edu> X-Envelope-To: flesh@wps.COM X-Vms-To: IN%"flesh@wps.COM" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Status: RO Ok, there is about 30 different ones. I havnt spotted anything on there that I recognize. Could you get on there and then tell me. You know your way around much better than I do. From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Tue Jan 25 13:41:02 1994 Received: from toad.com by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08666; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:40:59 -0800 Received: by toad.com id AA16277; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:06:53 PST Received: by toad.com id AA16089; Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:58:01 PST Return-Path: Received: from ghostwheel.bga.com ([198.3.118.4]) by toad.com id AA16078; Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:57:51 PST Received: from wixer.UUCP by ghostwheel.bga.com with UUCP id AA01715 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for cypherpunks@toad.com); Tue, 25 Jan 1994 14:42:20 -0600 Received: by wixer (5.65/1.35) id AA06946; Tue, 25 Jan 94 09:39:31 -0600 Message-Id: <9401251539.AA06946@wixer> Subject: Randomness and context To: cypherpunks@toad.com Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 9:39:30 CST From: Jim choate X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO To talk about the randomness of a bit stream without keeping in mind the context of that stream will lead one to make assumptions that simply are not valid. An example is probably best. Consider I work as a musician and record my work on a floppy disk. In the context of a musician that data is highly non-random. However, if I then take it and put in a airplanes inertial navigation computer the lord only knows what the computer will do. From the pespective of the aircraft the data is random and senseless. Another example you can do at home is to take a computer CD and play it in your audio deck. If you measure the resultant you will find a musicly random stream of noise coming from your deck. The same can be had if you try to 'run' a music CD as a program. GIGO is not absolute but rather relative to the context of the data and the milieu that it was created and interpreted in. From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Tue Jan 25 13:46:06 1994 Received: from toad.com by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08680; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:46:04 -0800 Received: by toad.com id AA16065; Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:56:56 PST Received: by toad.com id AA15876; Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:47:17 PST Return-Path: Received: from transfer.stratus.com ([134.111.1.10]) by toad.com id AA15872; Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:47:06 PST Received: from vos.stratus.com (vos.stratus.com [134.111.18.12]) by transfer.stratus.com (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id PAA20115 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 1994 15:47:02 -0500 Message-Id: <199401252047.PAA20115@transfer.stratus.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 15:43 EST From: Carl_Ellison@vos.stratus.com To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: quote of the day Status: RO Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor. - Machiavelli From ESP4%AsiCs%CTS@encon01.comp.pge.com Tue Jan 25 13:53:01 1994 Received: from can02.pge.com by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08716; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:52:57 -0800 Received: from dns01.pge.com by can02.pge.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05589; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:01:19 PST Received: from encon01.comp.pge.com by dns01.pge.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11768; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:12:57 PST Message-Id: <9401252112.AA11768@dns01.pge.com> Received: by encon01.comp.pge.com with VINES ; Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:57:19 PST Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:57:11 PST From: ESP4%AsiCs%CTS@encon01.comp.pge.com Subject: re:Re: ahhhh fuck mAN To: flesh@fido.wps.com Status: RO Dude, I'll give you a call tonight. Sorry, been working like a dog. I heard you only got the job at W-land because you slept with the boss... Is that true? (heheh) TakIt E-Z -- ESP P.S. Seriously, very cool -- hearty congratulations are in order... ----------------------[Reply - Original Message]---------------------- Sent by:Flesh Dude. Guess what? I'll be doing computer image archiving for Winterland prod, for $11 an hour!!! Cool, eh? When the hell are you going to call, or at least email and let me know what your timetables are like? ===================================================================== From GREENWA6892@cobra.uni.edu Tue Jan 25 13:57:51 1994 Received: from cobra.uni.edu by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08730; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:57:47 -0800 Received: from cobra.uni.edu by cobra.uni.edu (PMDF V4.2-13 #3072) id <01H83SSYYCCG8WZLEJ@cobra.uni.edu>; Tue, 25 Jan 1994 15:58:33 CST Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 15:58:33 -0600 (CST) From: GREENWA6892@cobra.uni.edu Subject: Re: Hi To: flesh@wps.COM Message-Id: <01H83SSYYDAQ8WZLEJ@cobra.uni.edu> X-Envelope-To: flesh@wps.COM X-Vms-To: IN%"flesh@wps.COM" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Status: RO I gotta leave Flesh. But leave the information to me in mail. I will pick it up later. Thanks! Aaron From flesh Tue Jan 25 13:59:00 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08736; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:59:00 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:59:00 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401252159.AA08736@wps.com> To: flesh@wps.com Subject: action-alert /wais/QRD.targets/electronic/email/ Status: RO ****************************************************************************** [ACTION-ALERT] ****** A C T I O N - A L E R T ******* ACTION-ALERT is a mailing list designed to provide the LGBTF community a resource by which we can respond to attacks on our community that are occurring anywhere. ACTION-ALERT is moderated and will only accept postings that include a brief summary of the situation requiring the ACTION along with contact information that members of the ACTION-ALERT distribution list can use to take ACTION! Be sure to include fax numbers and email addresses if at all possible. 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From flesh Tue Jan 25 14:02:04 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08759; Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:02:03 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:02:03 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401252202.AA08759@wps.com> To: flesh@wps.com Subject: don.wildmon-7.92 /wais/QRD.targets/orgs/GLAAD/ Status: RO Subject: American Family Assocation Boycotts of Levi Strauss and Toyota AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President P.O. Drawer 2440 * 107 Parkgate * Tupelo, Mississippi 38803 Dear AFA Friend, Great news! We won! The federal judge threw out the suit brought against your AFA by People for the American Way and the American Civil Liberties Union. However, some of these same parties have filed a similar suit in federal court in Mississippi. The ACLU and People for the American Way decided not to get involved in this lawsuit. Keep this new suit in your prayers. Our AFA Law Center attorneys feel like we will win this one, also. I will keep you informed. But right now, I need your help again! Please take the following actions today: (1) Mail the enclosed postcards to Levi Strauss, to Toyota and to your local Toyota dealer. (You can find the address for your local Toyota dealer in the phone book.) (2) Call Levi Strauss (1-800-872-5384) and Toyota (1-800-331-4331) and politely tell them you are boycotting them. Also, call the manager of your local Toyota dealership and tell him you are boycotting Toyota. Here's why. Levi Strauss, which makes Levi's clothing (including jeans) and Dockers clothing, are punishing the Boy Scouts of America because the Boy Scouts will not bow down to homosexual activists' demands to use homosexuals as scoutmasters in their local Boy Scout troops. And Toyota has begin an advertising campaign in support of the homosexual lifestyle. Here are the particulars. Levi Strauss supported the radical homosexuals who demanded that Levi Strauss stop giving the Boy Scouts of America financial support because the Boy Scouts would not accept homosexuals as scoutmasters. For the past five years Levi Strauss gave between $40,000 and $80,000 a year to the Boy Scouts. But now Levi Strauss has sided with the radical homosexuals and withdrawn its support. In other words,...Levi Strauss feels it is better business to support the demands of radical homosexuals than the Boy Scouts of America. And Levi Strauss did this knowing the Boy Scouts have been sued because a homosexual scoutmaster molested some young scouts. Molestation of young scouts by homosexual scoutmasters is a reality. Here is only one example. On March 21 the Associated Press carried this article: Ex-scout leader pleads guilty to rape of 2 boys Nashville (AP) -- A former Boy Scout leader pleaded guilty to raping two members of his troop and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Ronald W. Rice pleaded guilty in Williamson County Circuit Court to two counts of aggravated rape involving a 13-year-old boy and a former troop member who is now 21. Rice must serve at least nine years before he is eligible for parole. Rice was arrested march 18 after a 13-year-old boy told police Rice had been paying him for sexual favors over the last year. Police searched a building behind Rice's house and found about 600 photographic negatives of nude children in sexual acts with Rice, investigators said. Write Chrm. Robert D. Haas. Tell him you won't buy Levi clothing, including jeans, or Dockers clothing until Levi Strauss restores its funding to the Boy Scouts and ends its support of the radical homosexual agenda. Also, give Levi Strauss a call. Politely register your complaint. The toll-free customer service number is 1-800-872-5384. Also ask stores where you do business to stop selling Levi and Dockers clothing. Toyota has also decided to help promote the homosexual lifestyle. Not only was Toyota the leading sponsor of pro-homosexual TV programs during the May 1 - July 31, 1991 monitoring period,...but Toyota decided to recognize and endorse the homosexual lifestyle, and to promote homosexuals as "family" through their advertising. Toyota ran ads in Australia which read: "For some people, a family car is one that has room for a tribe. When we talk to you about a family car, we mean a car that is big enough for a couple and their friends to stretch out in comfort." The "family" in the photo is composed of two men. The ad was run in a homosexual publication. Toyota has decided it will be good for their business to push the homosexual lifestyle. If Toyota doesn't get the message, they no doubt will begin promoting the homosexuals as "family" in their advertising in America also. Sign and mail the enclosed postcard to Mr. Y. Togo, president of Toyota. And make your phone call, too. Toyota's toll-free customer service number is 1-800-331-4331. Also, write or call your local Toyota dealer and tell him that you will not purchase another Toyota until Toyota stops advertising in homosexual publications and sponsoring pro-homosexual television programs. Levi Strauss and Toyota can help push the radical homosexual agenda if they wish. After all, it is their money. But we can also refuse to buy Levi clothing (including jeans) and Dockers clothing and Toyota automobiles as long as they continue to push the homosexual agenda. It is our money! If you want Levi Strauss and Toyota to hear you, speak with your money. Thank you for all your support over the past several months. Your words of encouragement help sustain me. Your prayers, too, are very much appreciated. And so are your financial contributions. I know the economy has been down for some time now. Your sacrifices in support of our work are uplifting. If you can help us with a contribution at this time, I will greatly appreciate it. If not, I understand. But please mail the cards and make the phone calls today! I'm really counting on you to do that. Let me remind you how important it is that you participate in our projects. Without your participation, your AFA could not be effective. If possible, write a personal letter to Levi Strauss and Toyota. If you can't do that, put the card in an envelope and address it. And if you can't do that, then please mail the card. And be sure to call Levi Strauss, Toyota and your local Toyota dealer. Thanks for everything you do. God bless you. Sincerely, Donald E. Wildmon President P.S. I am counting on you to mail the cards and make the calls! Let me know you did so by returning the enclosed response form. Thanks again. [Note: He did not mention anything about his heart attack in this letter. I wonder if he even actually wrote the letter himself. Even Focus on the Family notified all of their members when James Dobson had a heart attack two years ago. Why would Wildmon not even ask for his members prayers for his recovery? How very strange.] From flesh Tue Jan 25 14:06:31 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08772; Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:06:30 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:06:30 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401252206.AA08772@wps.com> To: flesh@wps.com Subject: afa-background /wais/QRD.targets/religion/anti/ Status: RO Submitted for posting to the avtivist mailing list. Rev Donald Wildmon recently took out a full page advertisement in my local newspaper for his 'American Family Association'. After his usual ranting and raving about the depravity of TV, Music, Videos, Hollywood, etc. etc. etc., he promises to run like ads in newspapers across the country and send petitions to the Boards Of Directors of various entertainement companies. I do not usually get involved directly with activism regarding censorship but when I saw this self appointed keeper of American Morality steping up his efforts to con people out of money to promote the agenda of the Religious RIght, I was outraged. My liberal sister said that she was thinking of sending him money - she had no idea who he is and would never support him but was hooked by the rhetoric. I knew I had tio do something if only the act of writing the media to expose this "Bible Belt Blowhard" for what he really is before other unsuspecting people are sucked in. What follows is the text of my letter. I place it into the public domain as a guide or to be used as is for Wildmon trash that is soon to hit your area. You do not need to quote me or give credit but I would appreciate hearing from those who find it useful. George DeVinney Buffalo United for Choice PO Box 871 Amherst, NY 14226 E-Mail CIS: 73437,1501 Phone Messages: (716) 855-4033 Lettter text follows: "WE ARE OUTRAGED!", the full page ad in the November 24th Buffalo News shouts! Crime and violence is everywhere! Who is to blame? The Media, Hollywood, the Music Industry and, of course, Television. What can YOU do to stop these menaces from preying on the minds of our youth? Teach them better values? No. Stand up for your beliefs as a shining example? No. Understand that tolerance and diversity is the strength of America? No. What CAN you do then? Send money to Dr. (aka Reverend) Donald Wildmon, self appointed keeper of American morality! Before you dig too deep, know where your hard earned dollars are going. Mother Jones Magazine (Nov/Dec '92) calls Rev. Wildmon "A Bible Belt Blowhard". Wildmon's 'American Family Association' is a paper tiger that takes millions from unsuspecting donors while promoting the agenda of the Christian Right. Aptly named, this six million dollar a year operation counts at least eight Wildmon family members among its staff of thirty-five. The organization is housed in its own new building full of computers. Wildmon has his own radio station, a million newsletter readers, four hundred volunteer lawyers and a first class direct mail operation at his disposal. Although claiming great victories against vice, Wildmon has little effect when targets ignore his threats. S.C. Johnson & Son has been the target of a two year boycott because of its choice of TV shows. Johnson & Johnson products are selling better that ever with no change in advertising practices. Holiday Inn, boycotted for offering pay-per-view soft porn in its rooms, says reservation and movie rentals are doing nicely. Waldenbooks (and its parent K-Mart) have been unhurt by Wildmon's call to boycott them for their sale of Playboy and Playgirl Magazines Why then does the "reverend" continue to blow his horn? Mother Jones reports that on January 28, 1991, Wildmon's fund raising consultants mailed its "TV scum and slime" survey to 1% of American Housholds. Of course, a plea for contributions to fight the television heathens was included. Cost of mailing: $59,343.16. Three months later, Wildmon had received $254,395.12 in donations. A stock broker's dream: a 429% return on his investment. How scientific are the TV surveys? Recruited from fundamentalist or evangelical Christians, surveyors are hardly mainstream Americans. Asked to write all words of profanity in a TV show, one soldier included: "called man a stud" and "Oh my God" in his tally. MJ magazine reports that there are no guidelines for profanity or reporting in general: "Anything sexual is bad. When 'Life Stories' deals sympathetically with a TV Newsman's battle with AIDS, that's bad; when 'The Hogan Family' pushes safe sex for teenagers, that's bad too". What about surveys that don't agree with the pre- ordained analysis? According to Don's big brother, Allen (the Media Handler), they are tossed out! You can bet that's one crusader that won't be called to battle the heathens again! The survey was a good moneymaker but the failed K-Mart boycott brought in bucks "faster than a Blue Light Special". A plea to the association's 'inactive' member list alone brought $34,722.29 for this non boycott while a video store across the street from Wildmon's own headquarters continues to peddle X rated fare. "Nobody pays attention to Wildmon here", says a former manager of 'Videophile'. Where does the money eventually land? In 1989, Reverend Wildmon launched the 'AFA Law Center' as a legal arm of the Christian Right. "The Law Center sees its mission as protecting Christians by making new laws in the areas of abortion, sex education, teenage pregnancy, family planning, indecency and obscenity, and religious freedom" says Mother Jones. Wildmon is also leading a crusade against the 'Impressions' textbook curriculum which he says promotes Witchcraft. These widely used school books count A. A. Milne, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Seuss, C. S. Lewis and Rudyard Kipling among its authors. 'People for the American Way' has called this court case "Scopes II". Remember last April's visit of Operation Rescue that cost Buffalo area taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars? Reverend Wildmon is a big donor to these anti-abortion terrorists. So, before you pull out your check book, remember a few things that Wildmon and his 'American Family Association' doesn't want you to consider. The TV has a channel changer and an off button. Don't like what's sold in stores? Tell the manager and don't shop there anymore. Don't like what's taught in the schools? Find a private one more to your liking. When the market dries up for items Americans reject, they won't be on TV and in the stores anymore. That's the the system works: lining the pockets of a "grass roots" fundraising con man like Donald Wildmon will do no more than make him rich and powerful. We can retain our values while protecting the freedoms, diversity, and lack of censorship that makes America a great country. We can do it without self appointed watchdogs who get rich at the expense of American culture. We can do it while keeping our money for worthwhile causes. From flesh Tue Jan 25 14:07:51 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08782; Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:07:50 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:07:50 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401252207.AA08782@wps.com> To: flesh@wps.com Subject: afa-mtv /wais/QRD.targets/orgs/GLAAD/ Status: RO Return-Path: Received: from macsch.com (DRACO.MACSCH.COM) by rpi.edu (4.1/SMHUB31); id AA19425; Mon, 8 Jun 92 13:35:06 EDT for buckmr Received: from [72.1.3.22] by macsch.com (5.61/SMI-4.1-05) id AA06286; Mon, 8 Jun 92 10:33:28 -0700 Message-Id: <9206081733.AA06286@macsch.com> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 10:33:09 -0800 To: gaynet@athena.mit.edu From: b_blumberg@macsch.com (Bryan J. Blumberg) Subject: Phobe Alert: American Family Assn targets MTV Cc: buckmr@rpi.edu [Disclaimer: This is a letter I obtained from the American Family Association. The opinions reflected herein are not my own.] American Family Association Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President P.O. Drawer 2440 * 107 Parkgate * Tupelo, Mississippi 38803 PROJECT TO FIGHT MTV CABLE CHANNEL Dear Friend, I'm asking you to take some very important actions. You'll find them listed below. Your actions today will help fight one of TV's most offensive "teachers"--MTV--the music video channel. If you've never watched MTV, it's time you do. You must know what lessons MTV teaches millions of children every day. In truth, MTV is so bad, entertainer Eddie Rabbit has come out strongly against it. Here's what he tells parents: "MTV promotes the most violent of acts in front of our children. If parents saw someone peddling hard-core pornography to their, children, they'd have them arrested. That's what MTV does." MTV is a cancer eating away at the moral fiber of our young. In fact, MTV is such a dangerous threat to our children that West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, warned parents, saying: "The central message of most of these music videos is clear: Human happiness and fulfillment are experienced by becoming a sociopath and rejecting all responsibility. If we continue to sow the images of murder, violence, drug abuse, sadism, arrogance, irreverence, blasphemy, perversion, pornography and aberration before the eyes of millions of children, we should not be surprised if the foundations of our society rot away as if from leprosy." MTV teaches these lessons by design. MTV executives say they have a "mandate" to help form and shave the values of our children. A Los Angeles Daily News article quoted MTV senior vice president- creative director Judy McGrath as follows: "We have articulated our responsibility concerning our MANDATE to lead, serve and reflect our young audience." What "mandate?" MTV has no "mandate" to teach our children. What parents in their right minds would turn their children over to people who teach lessons like this: A 10:00 Sunday MORNING (1/19/92) feature had a man portray the devil and convince a woman to sell her soul to him. She at first resisted saying she was Christian. But the devil told her how many stars--such as Madonna--had sold their souls to him. The woman noted how these stars have expensive cars, homes, clothes and jewelry...and so she agreed. Once she did so, a music video entitled "The Devil Inside Me" aired. This song--which teaches that the devil is inside everyone--WAS SUNG TO A STUDIO AUDIENCE OF CHILDREN! The video ended with the devil and woman in bed. That, my friend, is not an isolated video. Eddie Rabbit would not risk professional blacklisting over an isolated video. Senator Byrd would not speak out against the dangers of MTV from the Senate floor over an isolated video. MTV is on a mission to sell our youth the values of drugs, violence, sex, and hedonism. MTV officials thoroughly reject traditional morals and values. Join the fight to get MTV off the air and out of our homes. MTV is shown on nearly every cable system in America. BUT KEEP THIS IN MIND: Even if you don't have cable, and even if you don't watch MTV, and even if you don't allow your children to watch MTV, .....the fact remains that MTV is pumped into 54.5 MILLION HOMES in America alone. And you and I and our children must live with the people who watch AND ACT OUT the lessons they learn on MTV. So decide today to help fight MTV. Take these actions: (1) Call your local cable company and ask them to quit carrying MTV over your cable network. (2) If they say they can't do that, ask them to scramble the MTV signal and make it a "premium" channel subscribers receive only by request. (3) If they say they can't do that, tell them to immediately scramble the signal and sound coming into your home from MTV. (4) If they refuse to do that, bite the bullet and CANCEL YOUR CABLE SERVICE. Believe me, you can live without cable TV. (5) Reproduce and distribute among your church members, friends, family, and others the enclosed petition concerning MTV. (6) Whether or not you get cable, SIGN the enclosed postcards to Ralston Purina and PepsiCo and MAIL THEM today. Ralston Purina and PepsiCo are two leading sponsors of MTV. There is absolutely no reason for them to help pay for filth on MTV. It is time to get angry at these two companies who tell us they are concerned with the kinds of television they help pay for. Thank you for taking this action today. You are helping rid society of a deadly menace. Better still, you are helping to protect the hearts and minds of our children from the prowling lion called MTV. In closing let me once again thank you for all the support you have given and continue to give our AFA ministry. Your ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT in our projects, your PRAYERS for me and the success of our work, and your FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS are making a tremendous difference. People are waking up. People are getting involved. Please keep up your valuable and irreplaceable support. And whenever you can, contribute to the success of our work. As I have told you many, many times, fully 99.9% of our funding comes from the generous sacrifices supporters like you make. Thank you for this help. Without you, there would be no AFA. God bless you, my friend, and your loved ones, too. Sincerely, Donald E. Wildmon P.S. I know that you, as I do, get tired fighting this never-ending battle. But we simply must not quit. God never gives up on us. For the sake of those who come after us, let us resolve to continue fighting the good fight. ======================================== Bryan J. Blumberg, The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation 815 Colorado Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90041-1777 (213) 259-4914, B_BLUMBERG@MACSCH.COM From daemon Tue Jan 25 14:12:18 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08818; Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:11:56 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:11:56 -0800 From: MAILER-DAEMON (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Message-Id: <9401252211.AA08818@wps.com> To: flesh Status: RO ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >>> RCPT To: <<< 553 unknown or illegal user: greenwa689@cobra.uni.edu 550 greenwa689@cobra.uni.edu... User unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08816; Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:11:56 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401252211.AA08816@wps.com> Subject: action-alert /wais/QRD.targets/electronic/email/ (fwd) To: greenwa689@cobra.uni.edu Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 14:11:56 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2411 Forwarded message: From flesh Tue Jan 25 13:59:00 1994 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:59:00 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401252159.AA08736@wps.com> To: flesh@wps.com Subject: action-alert /wais/QRD.targets/electronic/email/ ****************************************************************************** [ACTION-ALERT] ****** A C T I O N - A L E R T ******* ACTION-ALERT is a mailing list designed to provide the LGBTF community a resource by which we can respond to attacks on our community that are occurring anywhere. 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From daemon Tue Jan 25 14:13:03 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08828; Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:12:40 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:12:40 -0800 From: MAILER-DAEMON (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Message-Id: <9401252212.AA08828@wps.com> To: flesh Status: RO ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >>> RCPT To: <<< 553 unknown or illegal user: greenwa689@cobra.uni.edu 550 greenwa689@cobra.uni.edu... User unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08825; Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:12:40 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401252212.AA08825@wps.com> Subject: don.wildmon-7.92 /wais/QRD.targets/orgs/GLAAD/ (fwd) To: greenwa689@cobra.uni.edu Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 14:12:40 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 7251 Forwarded message: From flesh Tue Jan 25 14:02:04 1994 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:02:03 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401252202.AA08759@wps.com> To: flesh@wps.com Subject: don.wildmon-7.92 /wais/QRD.targets/orgs/GLAAD/ Subject: American Family Assocation Boycotts of Levi Strauss and Toyota AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President P.O. Drawer 2440 * 107 Parkgate * Tupelo, Mississippi 38803 Dear AFA Friend, Great news! We won! The federal judge threw out the suit brought against your AFA by People for the American Way and the American Civil Liberties Union. However, some of these same parties have filed a similar suit in federal court in Mississippi. The ACLU and People for the American Way decided not to get involved in this lawsuit. Keep this new suit in your prayers. Our AFA Law Center attorneys feel like we will win this one, also. I will keep you informed. But right now, I need your help again! Please take the following actions today: (1) Mail the enclosed postcards to Levi Strauss, to Toyota and to your local Toyota dealer. (You can find the address for your local Toyota dealer in the phone book.) (2) Call Levi Strauss (1-800-872-5384) and Toyota (1-800-331-4331) and politely tell them you are boycotting them. Also, call the manager of your local Toyota dealership and tell him you are boycotting Toyota. Here's why. Levi Strauss, which makes Levi's clothing (including jeans) and Dockers clothing, are punishing the Boy Scouts of America because the Boy Scouts will not bow down to homosexual activists' demands to use homosexuals as scoutmasters in their local Boy Scout troops. And Toyota has begin an advertising campaign in support of the homosexual lifestyle. Here are the particulars. Levi Strauss supported the radical homosexuals who demanded that Levi Strauss stop giving the Boy Scouts of America financial support because the Boy Scouts would not accept homosexuals as scoutmasters. For the past five years Levi Strauss gave between $40,000 and $80,000 a year to the Boy Scouts. But now Levi Strauss has sided with the radical homosexuals and withdrawn its support. In other words,...Levi Strauss feels it is better business to support the demands of radical homosexuals than the Boy Scouts of America. And Levi Strauss did this knowing the Boy Scouts have been sued because a homosexual scoutmaster molested some young scouts. Molestation of young scouts by homosexual scoutmasters is a reality. Here is only one example. On March 21 the Associated Press carried this article: Ex-scout leader pleads guilty to rape of 2 boys Nashville (AP) -- A former Boy Scout leader pleaded guilty to raping two members of his troop and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Ronald W. Rice pleaded guilty in Williamson County Circuit Court to two counts of aggravated rape involving a 13-year-old boy and a former troop member who is now 21. Rice must serve at least nine years before he is eligible for parole. Rice was arrested march 18 after a 13-year-old boy told police Rice had been paying him for sexual favors over the last year. Police searched a building behind Rice's house and found about 600 photographic negatives of nude children in sexual acts with Rice, investigators said. Write Chrm. Robert D. Haas. Tell him you won't buy Levi clothing, including jeans, or Dockers clothing until Levi Strauss restores its funding to the Boy Scouts and ends its support of the radical homosexual agenda. Also, give Levi Strauss a call. Politely register your complaint. The toll-free customer service number is 1-800-872-5384. Also ask stores where you do business to stop selling Levi and Dockers clothing. Toyota has also decided to help promote the homosexual lifestyle. Not only was Toyota the leading sponsor of pro-homosexual TV programs during the May 1 - July 31, 1991 monitoring period,...but Toyota decided to recognize and endorse the homosexual lifestyle, and to promote homosexuals as "family" through their advertising. Toyota ran ads in Australia which read: "For some people, a family car is one that has room for a tribe. When we talk to you about a family car, we mean a car that is big enough for a couple and their friends to stretch out in comfort." The "family" in the photo is composed of two men. The ad was run in a homosexual publication. Toyota has decided it will be good for their business to push the homosexual lifestyle. If Toyota doesn't get the message, they no doubt will begin promoting the homosexuals as "family" in their advertising in America also. Sign and mail the enclosed postcard to Mr. Y. Togo, president of Toyota. And make your phone call, too. Toyota's toll-free customer service number is 1-800-331-4331. Also, write or call your local Toyota dealer and tell him that you will not purchase another Toyota until Toyota stops advertising in homosexual publications and sponsoring pro-homosexual television programs. Levi Strauss and Toyota can help push the radical homosexual agenda if they wish. After all, it is their money. But we can also refuse to buy Levi clothing (including jeans) and Dockers clothing and Toyota automobiles as long as they continue to push the homosexual agenda. It is our money! If you want Levi Strauss and Toyota to hear you, speak with your money. Thank you for all your support over the past several months. Your words of encouragement help sustain me. Your prayers, too, are very much appreciated. And so are your financial contributions. I know the economy has been down for some time now. Your sacrifices in support of our work are uplifting. If you can help us with a contribution at this time, I will greatly appreciate it. If not, I understand. But please mail the cards and make the phone calls today! I'm really counting on you to do that. Let me remind you how important it is that you participate in our projects. Without your participation, your AFA could not be effective. If possible, write a personal letter to Levi Strauss and Toyota. If you can't do that, put the card in an envelope and address it. And if you can't do that, then please mail the card. And be sure to call Levi Strauss, Toyota and your local Toyota dealer. Thanks for everything you do. God bless you. Sincerely, Donald E. Wildmon President P.S. I am counting on you to mail the cards and make the calls! Let me know you did so by returning the enclosed response form. Thanks again. [Note: He did not mention anything about his heart attack in this letter. I wonder if he even actually wrote the letter himself. Even Focus on the Family notified all of their members when James Dobson had a heart attack two years ago. Why would Wildmon not even ask for his members prayers for his recovery? How very strange.] From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Tue Jan 25 14:20:34 1994 Received: from toad.com by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA08848; Tue, 25 Jan 94 14:20:29 -0800 Received: by toad.com id AA16883; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:36:53 PST Received: by toad.com id AA16868; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:36:06 PST Return-Path: Received: from inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com ([16.1.0.23]) by toad.com id AA16864; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:35:56 PST Received: from skidrow.lkg.dec.com by inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com (5.65/13Jan94) id AA09344; Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:04:33 -0800 Received: by skidrow.lkg.dec.com (5.57/fma-100391/rcb-930105) id AA23668 for cypherpunks@toad.com; Tue, 25 Jan 94 16:05:14 -0500 Message-Id: <9401252105.AA23668@skidrow.lkg.dec.com> To: Hal Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: NSA museum now open, if you can find it In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jan 94 15:01:10 PST." <199401242301.PAA28586@jobe.shell.portal.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 16:05:13 -0500 From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd (Beast)" X-Mts: smtp Status: RO From: Hal To: cypherpunks@toad.com >That museum sounds fascinating. I got to visit the NSA's so-called >"Friendship Annex" once on business. This is not at Fort Meade itself, >but a few miles away, to keep the impure and unclean away from the holy >temple itself. It's named after Friendship Airport which is not called Baltimore-Washington Interntional Airport which these buildings are very close to. >Whoever named this place had quite a sense of irony; the surveillance >cameras, briefcase searches, constant escorts, and armed guards did not >project a particularly "friendly" image. I was hoping to pick up some >souvenirs, but when I asked about an employee gift shop they looked at me >like I was crazy. One thing that really caught my eye was a poster which >was displayed widely, apparently a security-reminder-of-the-month thing. >This was the holiday season, and the poster showed Santa stopped at the >gate submitting his bag to be searched. I'm surprised they didn't have >the old boy being strip-searched. Anyway, I begged and begged but nobody >would let me have one. I believe you can get on a mailing list for these posters free. Try calling NSA and asking for M56 or "Security Awareness". >I really think the government is missing an opportunity by not selling >NSA sweatshirts and such. Recently the Los Angeles coroner's office >started selling souvenirs and they were overwhelmed by the popular demand. >Especially as cryptography becomes more popular, the NSA's sinister-but- >glamorous image could be a marketer's dream. The bureaucracy in the Federal Government makes this sort of thing very messy. >Hal Donald