From tomj Fri Dec 17 13:45:23 1993 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA22787; Fri, 17 Dec 93 13:45:22 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9312172145.AA22787@wps.com> Subject: THE PEOPLE WITH HOLES IN THEIR HEADS [or, you asked for it...] To: shitlist (Shit List archiver) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 13:45:22 -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: 13017 Forwarded message: From tomj Fri Dec 17 13:05:46 1993 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9312172105.AA22531@wps.com> Subject: THE PEOPLE WITH HOLES IN THEIR HEADS [or, you asked for it...] To: shit-list Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 13:05:39 -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: 12452 THE PEOPLE WITH HOLES IN THEIR HEADS Amanda Feilding lives in a charming flat looking over London's river with her companion, Joey Mellen, and their infant son, Rock. She is a successful painter, and she and Joey have an art gallery in a fashionable street of the King's Road. Another of her talents is for politics. At the last two General Elections she stood for Parliament in Chelsea, more than doubling her vote on the second occasion from 49 to 139. It does not sound much, but the cause for which she stands is unfamiliar and lacks obvious appeal. Feilding and her voters demand that trepanning operations be made freely available on the National Health. Trepanation means cutting a hole in your skull. The founder of the trepanation movement is a Dutch savant, Dr Bart Hughes. In 1962 he made a discovery which his followers proclaim as the most significant in modern times. One's state and degree of consciousness, he realized, are related to the volume of blood in the brain. According to his theory of evolution, the adoption of an upright stance brought certain benefits to the human race, but it caused the flow of blood through the head to be limited by gravity, thus reducing the range of human consciousness. Certain parts of the brain ceased or reduced their functions while others, particularly those parts relating to speech and reasoning, became emphasized in compensation. One can redress the balance by a number of methods, such as standing on one's head, jumping from a hot bath into a cold one, or the use of drugs; but the wider consciousness thus obtained is only temporary. Bart Hughes shared the common goal of mystics and poets in all ages: he wanted to achieve permanently the higher level of vision, which he associated with an increased volume of blood in the capillaries of the brain. The higher state of mind he sought was that of childhood. Babies are born with skulls unsealed, and it is not until one is an adult that the bony carapace is formed which completely encloses the membranes surrounding the brain and inhibits their pulsations in repsonse to heart-beats. In consequence, the adult loses touch with the dreams, imagination and intense perceptions of the child. His mental balance becomes upset by egoism and neuroses. To cure these problems, first in himself and then for the whole world, Dr Huges returned his cranium to something like the condition of infancy by cutting out a small disc of bone with an electric drill. Experiencing immediate beneficial effects from this operation, he began preaching to anyone who would listen to the doctrine of trepanation. By liberating his brain from its total imprisonment in his skull, he claimed to have restored its pulsations, increased the volume of blood in it and acquired a more complete, satisfying state of consciousness than grown-up people normally enjoy. The medical and legal authorities reacted to Huges's discovery with horror and rewarded him with a spell in a Dutch lunatic asylum. Joseph Mellen met Bart Huges in 1965 in Ibiza and quickly became his leading, or rather one and only, disciple. Years later he wrote a book called _Bore Hole_, the contents of which are summarized in its opening sentence: 'This is the story of how I came to drill a hole in my skull to get permanently high.' ...(a few paragraphs detail Joseph Mellen's early experiments with LSD, and how he finds out about Bart Huges.) The time came when Joey felt he had preached enough and that he now had to act. He did not agree with Holingshead that the third eye was merely a figure of speech, believing in its physical attainment through self-trepanation. Support for this can be found in archaeology. Skulls of ancient people all over the world give evidence that their owners were skillfully trepanned during their lifetimes, and many of these appear to have been of noble or priestly castes. The medical practice of trepanation was continued up to the present century in treatment of madness, the hole in the skull being seen as a way of relieving pressure on the brain or letting out the devils that possessed it. By his scientific explanation of the reasons for the operation, Bart Huges had removed it from the area of superstition, and Joey Mellen proposed to be the second person to perform it on himself in the interest of enlightenment. Bart had become a close friend of Amanda Feilding, and they went off to Amsterdam together while Joey took care of Amanda's flat. This was the opportunity he had been waiting for to bore a hole in his head. The most gripping passages in _Bore Hole_ describe his various attempts to complete the operation. They are also extremely gruesome, and those who lack medical curiosity would do well to read no further. Yet to those who might contemplate trepanation for and by themselves, Joey's experiences are a salutary warning. It should be empahasized that neither he, Bart nor Amanda has ever recommended people to follow their example by performing their own operations. For years they have been looking for doctors who would understand their theories and would agree to trepan volunteer patients as a form of therapy Strangely enough, not one member of the medical profession has been converted. In a surgical store Joey found a trepan instrument, a kind of auger or cork- screw designed to be worked by hand. It was much cheaper and, Joey felt, more sensitive than an electric drill. Its main feature was a metal spike, surrounded by a ring of saw-teeth. The spike was meant to be driven into the skull, holding the trepan steady until the revolving saw made a groove, after which it could be retracted. If all went well, the saw-band should remove a disc of bone and expose the brain. Joey's first attempt at self-trepanation was a fiasco. He had no previous medical experience, and the needles he had bought for administering a local anaesthetic to the crown of his head proved to be too thin and crumpled up or broke. Next day he obtained some stouted needles, took a tab of LSD to steady his nerves and set to in earnest. First he made an incision to the bone, and then applied the trepan to his bared skull. But the first part of the operation, driving the spike into the bone, was impossible to accomplish. Joey described it as like trying to uncork a bottle from the inside. He realized he needed help and telephoned Bart in Amsterdam, who promised he would come over and assist at the next operation. This plan was frustrated by the Home Office, which listed Dr Huges as an undesirable visitor to Britain and barred his entry. Amanda agreed to take his place. Soon after her return to London she helped Joey re-open the wound in his head and, by pressing the trepan with all her might against his skull, managed to get the spike to take hold and the saw- teeth to bite. Joey then took over at cranking the saw. Once again he had swallowed some LSD. After a long period of sawing, just as he was about to break through, he suddenly fainted. Amanda called an ambulance and he was taken to hospital, where horrified doctors told him that he was lucky to be alive and that if he had drilled a fraction of an inch further he would have killed himself. The psychiatrists took a particular interest in his case, and a group of them arranged to examine him. Before this could be done, he had to appear in court on a charge of possessing a small amount of cannabis. The magistrate demanded another psychiatrist's report and demanded him for a week in prison. There followed a period of embarrassment as the rumour went round London that Joey Mellen had trepanned himself, whereas in fact he had failed to do so. As soon as possible, therefore, he prepared for a third attempt. Proceeding as before, but now with the benefit of experience, he soon found the groove from the previous operation and began to saw through the sliver of bone separating him from enlightenment or, as the doctors had predicted, instant death. What followed is best quoted from _Bore Hole_. 'After some time there was an ominous sounding schlurp and the sound of bubbling. I drew the trepan out and the gurgling continued. It sounded like air bubbles running under the skull as they were pressed out. I looked at the trepan and there was a bit of bone in it. At last! On closer inspection I saw that the disc of bone was much deeper on one side than on the other. Obviously the trepan had not been straight and had gone through at one point only, then the piece of bone had snapped off and come out. I was reluctant to start drilling again for fear of damaging the brain membranes with the deeper part while I was cutting through the rest or of breaking off a splinter. If only I had an electric drill it would have been so much simpler. Amanda was sure I was through. There seemed no other explanation for the schlurping noises I decided to call it a day. At the time I thought that any hole would do, no matter what size. I bandaged up my head and cleared away the mess.' There was still doubt in his mind as to whether he had really broken through and, if so, whether the hole was big enough to restore pulsation to his brain. The operation had left him with a feeling of wellbeing, but he realized that it could simply be from relief at having ended it. To put the matter beyond doubt, he decided to bore another hole at a new spot just above the hairline, this time using an electric drill. In the spring of 1970, Amanda was in America and Joey did the operation alone. He applied the drill to his forehead, but after half and hour's work the electric cable burnt out. Once again he was frustrated. An engineer in the flat below him was able to repair the instrument and next day he set out to finish the job. 'This time I was not in any doubt. The drill head went at least an inch deep through the hole. A great gush of blood followed my withdrawal of the drill. In the mirror I could see the blood in the hole rising and falling with the pulsation of the brain.' The result was all he had hoped for. During the next four hours he felt his spirits rising higher until he reached a state of freedom and serenity which he claims, has been with him ever since. For some time now he had been sharing a flat with Amanda, and when she came back from America she immediately noticed the change in him. This encouraged her to join him on the mental plane by doing her own trepanation. The operation was carefully recorded. She had obtained a cine-camera, and Joey stood by, filming, as she attacked her head with an electric drill. The film shows her carefully at work, dressed in a blood-spattered white robe. She shaves her head, makes an incision in her head with a scalpel and calmly starts drilling. Blood spurts as she penetrates the skull. She lays aside the drill and with a triumphant smile advances towards Joey and the camera. Ever since, Joey and amanda have lived and worked together in harmony. From the business of buying old prints to colour and resell, they have progressed to ownership of the Pigeonhole Gallery and seem reasonably prosperous. They have also started a family. There is nothing apparently abnormal about them, and many of their old friends agree in finding them even more pleasant and contented since their operations. There is plenty of leisure in their lives, mingled with the kind of activities they most enjoy. These of course include talking and writing about trepanation. They have lectured widely in Europe and America to groups of doctors and other interested people, showing the film of Amanda's self-operation, entitled _Heartbeat in the Brain_. It is generally received with awe, the sight of blood often causing people to faint. At one showing in London a film critic described the audience 'dropping off their seats one by one like ripe plums'. Yet it was not designed to be gruesome. The soundtrack is of soothing music, and the surgical scenes alternate with some delightful motion studies of Amanda's pet pigeon, Birdie, as a symbol of peace and wisdom." Bill jacobs I've got seven holes in my skull. _______________________________________________________________________ William Jacobs | Someday we'll look back on all this Astronomy Dept., San Diego State and plow into a parked car. bjacobs@ucssun1.sdsu.edu -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. The Little Garden -- admin@admin.tlg.rg.net -- S.F. Bay Area Internetwork -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. The Little Garden -- admin@admin.tlg.rg.net -- S.F. Bay Area Internetwork From tomj Sat Dec 18 13:56:03 1993 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA03156; Sat, 18 Dec 93 13:55:58 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9312182155.AA03156@wps.com> Subject: Joanna Went! To: shit-list Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 13:55:57 -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: 6486 Wow! Josh found a flyer a few weeks ago that read: 1993 anti-christmas SPECTACULAR! featuring LA performance diva and splatter performance legend JOHANNA WENT international noise combo POO POO BOMB with MATTHEW & REJOICE! PIBLOKTO! and special guest: RODNEY HORROR! NOISE! MESS! RELIGION! At the Purple Onion, north beach, etc 10 pm Friday, December 17th $5 The Purple Onion is an ancient 50's jazz club or something, actually a really neat place; a small stage, with booths and tables around it, and a dance floor in front of the stage. Bar (beer & wine) in one corner. It's in a basement. Very cozy. Piblokto opened. 1982 new wave! Guitarist in a bunny suit, bass player wrapped in wrapping paper (ribbons and all), woman drummer, and woman singer in a sheer brown "doe" costume. She was actually better than her band, which was rather uninspired in spite of the costumes. But it really sounded like the B side of some 7" punk single you'd find fallen down inside the wall of some South of Market warehouse. Matthew and Rejoice were two guys in waiter/religious proseletyzer drag (black pants and shoes, white shirt, slicked back hair, restrained and overly cheerful demeanor, little gold crosses) who did umm, basically one of those Jee-zus gosh-golly stage shows. They went through the audience handing out Chick comics ("THE ANGELS") and giving sincere handshakes. Back on stage, they lip-synced to religous theme songs (sung by children...), gushed about Jesus said to Timothy... then couldn't find their place in the bible... Break out into song (Matthew stepping to the front of the stage to lip-sync the solos by the little religious chilredn on the tape), making numerous references to "lifestyle" blather and normalcy and such, occasionally pointing to Josh and me (the two fags in the place), but never getting in the slightest mean. They didn't drop character the whole time. It was very sick and very funny. Then this woman comes out. She looked like her older sister was Exine Cervenka, and Greta S. her younger sister. Black strech tights, top and skirt, think reddish hair with bangs made her face seem small. An amazing sound track behind her, industrial scary power trance stuff, occasional muffled groans into the mike, she puts on a series of odd hats, bags over her head. We were both thinkign and Josh said, gee, this is very Johanna-like, what an odd choice. It got weirder and weirder. The music got more intense, and I noticed the huge boxes of props. Her props became more demented, and I find it impossible to describe them; they were disturbing mixes and blurs of obvious and non-obvious things with loaded meanings. She had a sign board behind her, with words written on them, that periodically she'd flip over to reveal the next underneath, that gave a sort of check-point, though usually tangential or not-yet-expressed, to the... thing unfolding. She put on a huge ugly single tit, gnawed at the nipple, which extended into a hideous black snake, dangling and shaking, she bit off the end and a gross brownish liquid spread aver her, she rubbed it all over. It became obvious, oh, this *is* Johanna Went! She looks *so* totally different that her pictures in INDUSTRIAL CULTURE! She underwent transformation after transformation, donning funny and sick costumes. There was some sort of narrative or something just under the surface, though I wasn unable to make it explicit. Sex and death and her body and ugliness and giant tampons, mean men who wanted to fuck her, sticky fluids, four quarts of blood, pleasure, craziness, it wound up and up, there was a fascination to it that lrevented you from looking away though that would never ahd occurred to me. She started off somewhat self conscious, and goofy, and ended up in a trance, moving about the stage fluidly but posessed. Her vocal stuff got more distance and scary. The final scene-thing, she flipped the final board, and it read, "He wanted to fuck me in the ass, and beat me up, so I KILLED THEM", she fucked happy boy, the life-size red silky manthing, with a round flat yellow head with a smiley-face-inspired horror, impaled on a stand so that it stood at an uncomfortable-looking angle, after pulling out his stand/pole so he slumped over a table; she had on a huge, hideous, reptilian penis-thing which she was tuggging, stroking, and chewing on the end, over and over, the tip got longer and harder and finally, after chewing the very tip off, it exuded sticky gunk, and in a frenzy, fucked the slumped-over happy boy, screaming, "he wanted to fuck me in th eass, and beat me up, SO I KILLED HIM". Yeow! So Iraya and I went *immediately* and asked, "can we be your fans?" and Iraya asked, are you doing other shows in the area, etc, and Johanna, looking tired, and disassembling some of her props by putting her foot on one part and yanking with two hands, said no, this was the only show, she likes to do clubs because they're small, but she really wants to be able to to her full show (!) and neess more space. She said she's been sick all year, and hasn't performed in years (I think she said). Iraya and I briefly talked about doing a show, the chance I guess is slim, but not impossible, I mena, we've both been involved in such things. It would be an amazing thing. We got her phone number, then she said she was tired, and had to get stuff clean up. Bye! Wow! Next was POO POO BOMB. Two tiny tables with junky electronic doodads, behind each some housey looking person. They noises made were really elementary, sounding like indulgent art-stoont stuff from... 82. The "performance" was by "Nurse Poo Poo", and it was pretty silly. It was deafning too. It was "performance art", ie. boxes of kid's toys, a scarecrow like thing Nruse hacked up w th a saw, etc. Very messy. Very bad choice to follow up Johanna with. But it at least wasn't in the slightest pretentious. In fact, the whole night was fun and goofy. I somehow forgot to say how funny Johanna's thing was. I mean, I laughed thruogh most of it. It was intentionally funny, but almost no one was laughing. Too bad! Special Guest never showed, or we were unable to discern him/her from the background. -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Sun Dec 19 15:57:21 1993 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA07636; Sun, 19 Dec 93 15:57:02 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9312192357.AA07636@wps.com> Subject: Cu Digest, #5.95 (Cumm index, Vols 1-4) (Last issue of '93) (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 15:57:01 -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: 62192 Forwarded message: From @VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU:owner-cudigest@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU Sun Dec 19 15:53:53 1993 Message-Id: <9312192351.AA07625@wps.com> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 17:20:00 CST Reply-To: TK0JUT2@MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU Sender: CU-DIGEST list From: TK0JUT2%NIU.bitnet@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Cu Digest, #5.95 (Cumm index, Vols 1-4) (Last issue of '93) To: Multiple recipients of list CUDIGEST Computer underground Digest Sun Dec 19 1995 Volume 5 : Issue 95 ISSN 1004-042X Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET) Archivist: Brendan Kehoe Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala Ian Dickinson Copy Editor: Craig Shergold, XIII CONTENTS, #5.95 (Dec 19 1995) File 1--CUMMULATIVE SUBJECT/TOPIC INDEX TO CuDS - Vols 1 to 4 Cu-Digest is a weekly electronic journal/newsletter. 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Readers are encouraged to submit reasoned articles relating to computer culture and communication. Articles are preferred to short responses. Please avoid quoting previous posts unless absolutely necessary. DISCLAIMER: The views represented herein do not necessarily represent the views of the moderators. Digest contributors assume all responsibility for ensuring that articles submitted do not violate copyright protections. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 16:14:54 CST From: ALAN DUNKIN Subject: File 1--CUMMULATIVE SUBJECT/TOPIC INDEX TO CuDS - Vols 1 to 4 THE COMPUTER UNDERGROUND DIGEST CUMULATIVE INDEX (VOLS 1-4) ((MODERATORS' NOTE: ALAN DUNKIN compiled the following index of subjects and names featured in CuD from Volume 1 through Volume 4. It was a time-consuming and rather arduous task, and we're certain that readers share our enthusiasm and gratitude for his efforts. We've found the index invaluable in tracking down subject/issues that we occasionally need. Alan recently switched his mail address, and he can be contacted through us for the time being. We'll publish his address in the first of the year. Alan is also working on Volume 5. Thank gopod for hard-working masochists, especially when they share with others. To Alan, a magnitudinous THANKS!! +++ This is an index of things, people, handles, events, magazines, places, events, books, hackers, TV shows, speeches, conventions, search warrants, phreakers, secret service agents, news prints, and of cyberspace itself. Anything mentioned in an issue of the Digest, with significance, is included in the Index. For instance, a paper regarding "Knight Lightning" will be in the Index, but the fact that he liked UNIX would not go under the UNIX heading. Catagories which consist of different names have "identifiers", like BBS, the word "magazine", "convention", or somesuch to aide in searches. Books and magazines are surrounded by underscores while aliases and hacker handles in double quotes. Where acronyms occur I have tried to offer a pointer to what the acronym refers to (or alias, if known). The Cumulative Index is numbered so like so: ABBBC/DD A - Volume number B - Issue number (taken into account that volume five may exceed 100 issues) C - Subissue letter (for Alcor issue mainly) D - File number I look forward to all comments and suggestions about the Index. In the future they may reflect how it is presented, with new issues and re-editing can change it at any time. There will probably be things that I have missed or have typed in wrongly. I am currently available at tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu ((temporary address until CuD editors dig out his new one--eds.)). Also, please cite examples if you can, sometimes I may have problems in understanding what you are presenting. --- Alan Dunkin 10/24/93 +----------------------------------------------------------------------- 90 North BBS 343/11 _2600 Magazine_ 110; 112/5; 215/3; 307/6; 337/6; 433/1; 433/3; 433/4; 433/5; 457/1; 457/2; 457/3; 457/4; 457/5; 457/6; 459/2; 464/1 Abene, Mark 305/3; 306/4; 337/3; 430/1; 430/2; 430/3; 431/1; 432/4; 451/2 "Acid Phreak", see Ladopoulos, Elias _Activist Times, Inc._ 112/5; 205/3 "Adrian Vole" 212/9 Advanced Network and Services 205/7; 206/5 Adventure Software Ltd. 465/2 Air Force Office of Special Investigations 201/6 AIS, see Automated Information System BBS Akron Anomaly BBS 462/8 Alcor Life Extension Foundation 104a; 104b; 104c; 104d; 118/2; 125/3; 325 Aldrich, Jeffery 213/2 Alexander, Kent 454/2; 454/3 Aliases, use of 100/3; 300/2 Amateur Action BBS 409/8; 410/6 America On-Line 344/3 American Telephone & Telegraph Company 117/3; 128/2; 128/3; 200/3; 201/5; 203/2; 311/4; 311/5; 312/2; 322/3; 335/8; 430/6 Ames Research Center 462/3 Andrews, Rich 110; 203/2; 211; 421/3 ANS, see Advanced Network and Services Apple 204/6 _Art of Technology Digest_ 441/2 AT&T, see American Telephone and Telegraph company Attctc public access UNIX 201/5; 203/2; 421/3 Automated Information System BBS 437/4 _Austin-American Statesman_ 101/3 Barlow, John 121/5; 122/6; 123/4; 318 Bauer, David 211 Bechtold, Alan 108/4; 118/2 Bell Company Research 200/3; 211; 433/1; 433/3; 433/4; 433/5; 434/3; 434/5; 435/3; 436/2 Bellcore, see Bell Company Research Bell South Telephone Company 100/4; 100/5; 110; 115; 116; 124/4; 125/2; 126/3; 211; 213/3; 215/3; 216; 217/3; 217/7; 317/2; 325; 333/3; 341/3; 407/2; 435/5; 454/3 Ben-Menashe, Ari 404/3; 451/1 Berman, Jerry 428/2 Biliographies - Cu Related 303/4; 336; 340/5 422/4 434/7 Bibliographies - E-Mail Privacy 344/6 Bibliographies - Codes/Viruses 465/9 BITNET 123/2 BJS, see Bureau of Justice Statistics Black Ice BBS 216; 317/3 Blanchard, Margaret 305/7 Blankenship, Loyd 106/3; 110; 101/3; 211; 421/3 Blumenthal, David 410/7; 421/7 _Boardwatch_ magazine 331/5 Book Reviews: 332/2; 425/5 CLOAK AND DAGGER (Levy) 204/6 COMPUTER ETHICS (Forrester) 201/7, 308/5 CUCKOO'S EGG (Stoll) 106/4, 112/3, 444 CYBERPUNKS (Hafner and Markoff) 332/SI GRAY AREAS -- 'Zine Review 465/8 GURPS (Jackson) 126/2 HACKER CRACKDOWN (Sterling) 461/SI INFORMATION WEB (Gould) 321/5 INTERTEK MAGAZINE (Newsbytes Reprint) 409/5 PRACTICAL UNIX SECURITY (Garfinkel and Spafford) 330/1,2 PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE (Donner) 321/4 REVIEW OF SITE SECURITY HANDBOOK 333/7 SYSLAW (Rose) 467/4,5 UNDERCOVER (Marx) 321/3 WHOLE INTERNET USER'S GUIDE (Krol) 462/5,6,7 ZEN AND THE ART OF THE INTERNET (Kehoe) 438/7,8 Bootleggers 103/5 Boykin, Charles 203/2 Brazil 449/7 British Tymnet North America Inc. 430/2; 430/3; 431/1 Brown, Michael 437/5 Bua, Nicholas 116; 123/4; 124/2 Bulletin Board Systems, General 103/5; 108/4; 115; 202/5; 205/4; 211; 216; 219/3; 219/4; 300/2; 305/8; 307/6; 315/2; 330/3; 334/3; 334/4; 334/5; 334/6; 334/7; 334/8; 340/4; 405/1; 405/2; 415/1; 422/2; 467/4; 467/5; 467/6 Bulletin Board Systems, Monitoring of 102/3; 105/4; 118/5; 201/5; 306/5; 342/2 Bulletin Board Systems, Sting operations 111/3; 302; 462/8 Bureau of Justice Statistics 446/9 Canada 313/4; 323/1; 343/11; 423/3; 438/3; 449/8; 451/3; 452/6; 453/3; 453/5; 455/3 Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft 343/11 "Cap't Crunch", see Draper, John Casolaro, Daniel 330/4; 331/7; 333/5; 404/3; 436/8; 436/9; 451/1 CCC, see Chaos Computer Club Censorship 208/3; 208/4; 209/3; 209/4; 210/5; 212/5; 214/5; 305/6 Cellular phones 323/4; 324/8; 466/2 CERT, see Computer Emergency Response Team Chaos Computer Club 202/5; 218/4; 305/5; 327/9; 402/4; 422/4 Chasin, Scott 322/1; 324/3; 325; 454/2; 454/3 _Chicago Tribune_ 435/9 CitiCorp 101/4; 445/5 Cisler, Steve 424/4 Clinton, Bill 421/6; 443/6; 447/5; 455/2; 459/5; 465/6 Cloak and Dagger 204/6 COCOT, see Customer-Owned Coin-Operated Telephone Comprehensive Crime Control Act 109/4 CompuServe Information Service 343/12; 402/8 _Computer Addiction_ 344/5 Computer Emergency Response Team 314/4; 333/7; 437/4; 448/3; 465/1; 466/6 _Computer Ethics_ 207/7; 308/5; 328/2; 328/3 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984 100/2 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 116 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference 213/4; 306/2; 344/7; 415/8; 415/9; 418/6; 427/3 Computer Misuse Act 205/7; 209/8 Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility 105/4; 118/5; 122/6; 201/3; 207/3; 214/3; 304/4; 313/4; 324/7; 334/2; 342/2; 342/3; 411/6; 412/6; 417; 419/2; 427/4; 427/5; 432/2; 434/10; 437/8; 445/4; 449/3; 462/1; 462/2; 466/1 _Computer Security Basics_ 335/3 Computer Sciences Corporation 453/8 Computer underground 100/1; 111/2; 111/4; 113/2; 207/5; 215/7; 300/4; 301; 306/6; 309/1; 314/3; 435/2 Comsec Data Security 322/1; 324/3; 324/4; 325 Cook, William 106/3; 118/4; 124/2; 125/2; 128/4; 129/6; 320/4; 326/3; 333/3; 341/3; 407/2; 421/3 COPS 219/2; 300/5 "Corrupt", see Lee, John CPSR, see Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Credit card fraud 109/3; 109/4; 418/8 Cryptography 219/2; 315/1; 327/6; 411/6; 418/6; 429/2; 432/1; 438/9; 449/7; 465/9 CSC, see Computer Sciences Corporation _Cuckoo's Egg, The_ 106/4; 112/3; 306/6; 444/1; 444/2; 444/3; 444/4; 444/5 Cupps, Robert 324/3; 325 Customer-Owned Coin-Operated Telephone 420/1; 422/3 Cyberpunk 129/5; 200/4; 323/1; 324/1; 447/1 _Cyberpunk_ 332/1; 332/2; 333/3; 333/4; 333/5; 335/2; 425/5 Cyberview 312/2 Cyberspace 329/4; 330/3; 335/10; 423/3; 446/4; 450/6 Darden, Franklin Jr. 123/4; 124/4; 124/5; 212/3; 213/3; 215/3; 216; 217/3; 319/2 Dark Side BBS 302 Data Encryption Standard 432/1 Dateline NBC 454/2; 454/3 David, Lowell 464/1 Davy Jones Locker BBS 426/7 DEA, see Drug Enforcement Agency "Dead Lord", see Fancher, Bruce Defense Conversion Commission 449/2 De La Fe, Alfredo 430/2; 430/3 Delphi information service 465/4 Denning, Dorothy 207/5; 207/6 Department of Justice 204/7; 319/4; 411/4; 436/7; 436/8; 451/1; 465/1 DES, see Data Encryption Standard DiCiccio, Lenny 332/3; 332/5 _Difference Engine_ 335/4 Digital Communications 411/4; 411/5; 412/5; 417; 429/1 Digital Signature Standard 432/1; 438/9 Digital telephony proposal 429/1; 445/4; 449/3 "Doc Holiday", see Chasin, Scott "Doc Savage", see Majette, Baron DOJ, see Department of Justice Donner, Frank 321/4 Douchette, Leslie Lynn 129/6 Download tax 334/3; 334/4; 334/5; 334/6; 334/7; 334/8; 335/7 Draper, John 446/6 "Dr. Ripco", see Esquibel, Bruce Drug Enforcement Agency 213/5; 214/8 DSS, see Digital Signature Standard E911, see Emergency/Enhanced 911 Earth First! 103/4 Edwards, Don, 118/5 EFF, see Electronic Frontier Foundation Effective Performance In Candidates project 213/2 Ek, Brian 212/4 Electronic Bill of Rights 122/6 Electronic Communications Privacy Act 102/3; 104c; 104d; 125/3; 304/3; 305/2; 330/3 Electronic Frontier Foundation 122/6; 123/4; 124/3; 128/4; 200/2; 207/4; 209/5; 210/3; 210/4; 217/3; 307/4; 307/4; 310/4; 310/5; 315/3; 318; 319/4; 320/6; 343/2; 414/3; 421/3; 428/2; 432/3; 437/7; 443/5; 446/5; 466/4; 466/5 Electronic Mail 100/4; 104a; 104b; 104c; 104d; 115 204/7; 211; 214/6; 326/6; 329/5; 333/4; 344/3 Elephant public access UNIX 421/3 ELINT/CE 103/2 Emergency/Enhanced 911 100/4; 100/5; 103/6; 107/2; 110; 115; 116; 119; 120; 124/2; 125/2; 211; 216; 217/3; 341/3; 407/2; 451/3 Encryption, see Cryptography EPIC, see Effective Performance In Candidates project "Erik Bloodaxe", see Goggans, Chris Esquibel, Bruce 109/1; 126/4; 127/3; 202/3; 302; 311/1; 314/3; 434/8; 437/2; 437/3 Event Horizons BBS 426/5 _Exporting the First Amendment_ 305/7 Fancher, Bruce 451/3 05/4; 201/3; 204/3; 204/6; 214/3; 306/5; 321/4; 323/2; 344/3; 411/4; 412/5; 416/3; 416/4; 429/2; 439/2; 445/4; 446/5; 449/3; 457/1 Federal Communications Commission 305/6 Federal High-Performance Computing Act 205/7 Federal Whistleblower BBS, The 413/4 Federal Wiretapping Law of 1968 102/3 Ferguson, Thomas 432/5 Fernandez, Julio 430/1; 430/2; 430/3; 431/1; 432/4; 451/2 Ferrell, Michael 300/6 "Ferret" 117/6 Figallo, Cliff 110; 432/3; 443/5 File Transfer Protocol 123/2 Films 307/5 "Flash", see Kong, Albert Foley, Timothy 125/2; 200/3; 201/5; 203/2; 211; 311/1; 315/3; 322/3; 326/3; 339/2; 341/3; 401/2; 421/3 _Forbes_ magazine 466/7 Forrester, Owen 213/3 Forrester, Tom 328/3; 328/4 Fox Television 309/1; 321/6 Freedom of Information Act 105/4; 201/3; 339/3; 342/2; 402/9; 412/6; 415/5; 417 _Freaker's Bureau Incorporated_ 333/6 Freriks, R. David 467/2 FTP, see File Transfer Protocol _Full Disclosure_ 302 Gallaway, Jim 204/5 GAO, see General Accounting Office Garbage Dump BBS, The 438/2 GateKeeper Telecommunications Systems, Inc. 323/4 Gateway/WINDO 446/7; 446/8; 447/2 General Accounting Office 103/3; 204/7 "Genesis" 406/1 GEnie 318 Gibson, William 447/1 Gleason, William 216 Goggans, Chris 106/3; 110; 211; 324/3; 325; 421/3 Golden, Barbara 200/3; 211; 315/3; 401/2; 421/4 Goldman, Stuart 307/3; 309/1; 310/2; 314/3; 321/6 Goldstein, Emmanuel 110; 307/6; 337/3; 337/6 Gould, Carol 321/5 Grant, Adam 123/4; 124/4; 124/5; 212/3; 213/3; 215/3; 216; 217/3; 319/2; 454/2; 454/3 _Gray Areas_ 465/8 GTE 108/4; 420/1 _GURPS Cyberpunk_ 113/5; 126/2; 127/4; 202/5; 209/5; 320/4 _Hacker Crackdown_ 447/1; 461/1; 461/2; 461/3; 461/4; 461/5 _Hacker Files, The_ 438/6 Hackers 100/4; 103/3; 106/4 112/3; 116; 119; 121/2; 126/2; 201/4; 206/4; 207/5; 207/6; 209/7; 209/8; 210/9; 211; 212/2; 212/9; 213/5; 214/4; 214/8; 215/6; 217/2; 217/6; 217/7; 218/3; 218/5; 303/2; 305/5; 306/6; 311/2; 315/2; 319/4; 320/5; 323/1; 323/3; 326/4; 327/10; 328/3; 328/4; 337/2; 337/3; 337/5; 343/10; 402/4; 411/7; 415/9; 417; 418/1; 418/8; 419/1; 422/4; 433/6; 438/6; 447/3; 453/4; 454/2; 454/3; 466/7 "HackRat" 457/3 Hafner, Katie 332/2; 425/5 Handles, see Aliases Haugh, John 421/3 Hay, Penny 212/4 Henson, H. Keith 104a; 104b; 104c; 104d; 311/5; 325 HoHoCon convention 440/4; 445/1; 445/2; 456/3; 464/2; 464/4 "Hollywood Hacker", see Goldman, Stuart Hopson, Ron 313/4; 315/2 HR 1400 324/6 HR 2772 446/7; 446/8 HR 3459 442/5 HR 3515 413/3 HR 5096 435/5 HR 5983 447/2 Huebner, Hans 332/1; 332/2; 332/3; 332/5 Illuminati BBS 110; 126/2; 319/4; 421/3 Imhoff, James 305/8 Incident tracking and vulnerability reporting database 448/3 _Informatik_ 338/6 _Information Web, The_ 321/5 Ingraham, Don 337/1; 337/2; 337/3; 338/3; 338/4 "Inhuman" 457/3 Inslaw, Inc. 319/4; 330/4; 331/7; 333/5; 404/3; 436/7; 436/8; 436/9; 445/5; 451/1; 452/2 Interactive Systems Corporation 209/2 Internal Revenue Service 437/6 International Information Retrieval Guild 214/4 Internet Society 418/2 Internet worm 107/2; 123/4; 202/5; 218/3 _Intertek_ magazine 409/5 IRS, see Internal Revenue Service Izenberg, Bob 421/3 Johnson, Al 457/1; 457/5; 457/6; 457/7; 459/2; 464/1 Jolnet public access UNIX 110; 115; 211; 421/4 Kapor, Mitch 113/4; 121/5; 122/6; 123/4; 204/6; 318 Kehoe, Brendan 438/7; 438/8 Kenadek, Richard 426/7 Kennedy, Bill 421/3 Kent, Dora 104a; 325 Kermit 211 Keystroke monitoring 465/1; 466/6 Killer, see Attctc Kluepfel, Henry 211; 315/3; 421/3; 421/4; 422/1; 434/5 "Knight Lightning", see Neidorf, Craig Kong, Albert 306/4 Krol, Ed 439/4; 462/5 Kroupa, Patrick 451/3 Kuykendall, Bill 110 Ladopoulos, Elias 305/3; 306/4; 430/1; 430/2; 430/3; 431/1; 432/4; 451/2 Landsat 419/4 Lauffenburger, Michael 406/3 Laws, California 117/5; 204/4; 406/5; 408/4; 418/4 Laws, Finland 335/6 Laws, General 215/5; 330/3 Laws, United Kingdom 102/2; 128/4; 205/7 Lawsuits 125/4; 204/7; 304/4 Lee, John 430/1; 430/2; 430/3; 431/1; 432/4; 451/2 Leemah Datacom Security Corporation 205/7; 300/2; 303/2 Legion of Doom 100/2; 100/4; 100/5; 101/3; 101/4; 102/1; 106/3; 110; 113/3; 115; 116; 117/3; 117/4; 119; 123/4; 124/4; 126/2; 128/3; 129/6; 202/5; 211; 216; 310/4; 312/3; 317/4; 322/1; 324/3; 325; 341/3; 407/2; 421/4; 451/3; 452/6; 453/3 Lehrer, Mark 462/8 Levy, Steven 204/6 Lewis, John 203/2 "Lex Luthor" 452/6 "Lithium Bandit" 457/3 _LIttle Black Book of Computer Viruses_ 455/1 LoD, see Legion of Doom "Lord Digital", see Kroupa, Patrick Luce, Doug 457/3 Ludwig, Mark 455/1 Luke, Ed 206/3 Majette, Baron 311/3; 326/5 "Malefactor", see Shulman, Kenyon Markoff, John 332/2; 332/5 Marrou, Andre 315/2 MARS BBS 206/3; 208/4 Marx, Gary 321/3 Masters of Destruction, see Masters of Disasters Masters of Disasters 200/5; 430/1; 430/2; 430/3; 431/1; 431/2 432/4; 433/7; 433/8; 451/2 "Maverick", see Maverick, Scott Maverick, Scott 451/3; 452/6; 453/3 McCarthy, Timothy 311/4 McDonnell, Patrick 100/5 McMenamin, Brigid 466/7 _Media Information Australia_ 429/5 Meeks, Brock 457/1; 457/6; 457/7 Meyer, Gordon 339/3 Michigan Bell Telephone 219/4; 305/8 Michigan Telecommunications Act 307/6 Microbec 438/3 _Microtimes_ 306/2 Mindvox public access UNIX 441/1 Minitele 214/6 Mitnick, Kevin 300/6; 303/4; 332/1; 332/2; 332/3; 332/5; 335/2 MoD, see Masters of Disasters Modem User's Association of America 108/4; 118/2; 128/4 _Mondo 2000_ 314/6 Morris, Robert 107/2; 108/3; 123/4; 129/5; 129/6; 202/5; 216; 217/3; 317/5; 319/2; 332/1; 332/2; 332/3; 332/5; 344/4 MUAA, see Modem User's Association of America "Multiplexer" 418/9 NASA, see National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration 103/3; 329/5; 333/3; 343/9; 343/13; 414/9; 462/3 National Computer Security Conference 207/5; 207/6 National Institute of Standards and Technology 118/2; 325; 429/2; 432/1; 438/9 National Research and Education Network 329/2; 331/6; 433/10; 434/10; 448/2 National Science Foundation 206/3; 208/4; 209/4; 321/2 National Security Agency 201/6; 429/2; 432/1; 433/8; 438/9 National Security Associates, Inc. 319/4 "Necron 99", see Grant, Adam Neidorf, Craig 100/4; 100/5; 103/6 110; 114/3; 115; 116; 118/4; 121/5; 122/6; 123/1; 124/2; 124/3; 124/5; 126/3; 128/1; 128/4; 129/6; 200/3; 202/5; 211; 213/3; 217/3; 218/2; 302; 309/2; 314/3; 337/1; 337/2; 337/3; 338/3; 338/4; 340/2; 341/3; 401/2; 407/2; 421/3; 421/4; 421/5; 457/3 Nemeth, Gary 315/2 Newlin, Reed 211 _Network Information Access_ 306/2 _Neuromancer_ 447/1 New York Telephone company 427/7; 431/1 NIA, see Network Information Access Norman, Neal 323/4 "NotSoHumble Babe" 406/1 _Now it can be Told_ 337/1; 337/2; 337/3; 337/5; 338/3; 338/4 NREN, see Nation Research and Education Network NSA, see National Security Agency NSF, see National Science Foundation NuPrometheus League 204/3; 204/6; 205/5 Ochoa, Enedina 437/6 Operation Sun Devil 109/3; 109/4; 109/5; 110; 113/2; 114/2; 114/5; 117/2; 126/4; 202/2; 202/5; 204/3; 204/6; 206/3; 218/2; 302; 310/4; 310/5; 311/3; 312/3; 314/3; 319/4; 320/4; 325; 334/2; 412/6; 419/2; 421/3; 437/2; 453/3 Orange County Transportation Authority 454/4 Oregon Public Utility Commission 405/1; 405/2; 406/4; 408/3 OSI, see Air Force Office of Special Investigations "Outlaw", see Fernandez, Julio Pacific Bell telephone company 436/5; 436/6; 437/1; 437/8 Packet BBSs 305/6 Paperwork Reduction Act 404/4; 404/5; 404/6 Pedophilia 415/7 "Pengo", see Huebner, Hans Pentagon City Mall 457/1; 457/2; 457/3; 457/4; 457/5; 457/6; 457/7; 464/1; 465/10; _Phantasy_ 214/4 Phantom Access BBS 451/3 "Phiber Optik", see Abene, Mark Phoenix Project BBS, The 110; 118/4; 211; 317/5; 407/2; 421/3; 422/1; 434/5 _Phrack Inc._ Newsletter 100/4; 100/5; 110; 112/5; 114/4; 115; 116; 119; 120; 123/3; 125/2; 127/3; 128/4; 202/5; 211; 212/1; 309/2; 326/3; 341/3; 407/2; 421/3 Physician Computer Network Inc. 418/3 Pilgrim, Mark 421/7 Pinz, Ronald 455/4 Pioneer awards 414/3; 466/4 Piracy, see software piracy Playboy Enterprises 426/5 Pluchino, David 453/3 Point, The 110 Pornography 344/3; 401/4; 409/8; 410/6 Poulsen, Kevin 320/2 Povich, Murray 314/5 PRA, see Paperwork Reduction Act _Practical UNIX Security_ 330/1; 330/2; 333/9; 335/5 Privacy Protection Act of 1980 401/2 Prodigy 208/3; 209/4; 212/4; 214/6; 303/2; 313/4; 316/2; 316/3; 316/4; 316/5; 316/6; 319/2; 320/7; 343/12 Project Hermes 118/2 PROMIS 436/8; 451/1 _Protectors of Privilege_ 321/4 PumpCon convention 455/4; 460/1 "Quintin" 454/2; 454/3 Raphaelson, Ira 100/5 Rheingold, Howard 423/7 Riconosciuto, Michael 404/3 Riggs, Robert 100/4; 100/5; 103/6; 115; 116; 123/4; 124/4; 124/5; 125/2; 128/4; 211; 212/3; 213/3; 215/3; 216; 217/3; 317/3; 319/2; 341/3; 407/2; 421/4 Ripco BBS 109/1; 111/4; 126/4; 127/3; 202/3; 302; 314/3; 437/2; 437/3; 438/1 Rivera, Geraldo 337/1; 337/2; 337/3; 338/3; 338/4 "Robert Johnson", see Riggs, Robert Roberts, Glen 302 Rose, Leonard 112/4; 113/3; 126/1; 128/2; 128/3; 200/3; 202/5; 203/2; 209/2; 210/2; 214/2; 215/2; 310/3; 310/4; 310/5; 311/2; 311/4; 312/2; 313/2; 313/3; 314/2; 314/3; 319/2; 321/7; 322/3; 326/3; 339/2; 339/4; 340/5; 413/2; 421/3; 421/4; 434/6; 466/7 Rosenfeld, Morton 430/2; 430/3 Ross Perot for President BBS 420/3 Rothman, Herb 212/4 Rpp386 computer system 421/3 S.266 327/6 S.516 340/6 S.893 447/4; 450/2; 450/3; 453/9 S.1543 210/4 S.1929 402/9 S.1940 402/9; 415/5 S.2112 413/3 S.2476 201/2 S.2813 427/6; 446/7; 446/8 Salzman, Peter 129/6 SB.1447 408/4 "Scarecrow" 117/6 SCAT, see Special Computereized Attack Team Schwartz, John 106/3 Scott, Jon 454/2; 454/3 "Scorpion", see Stira, Paul Search and seizure 331/4 Search warrant 104a; 200/3; 211; 460/1 Secret Service, see United States Sercret Service Security 210/9; 218/5; 219/2; 300/5; 304/4; 319/4; 330/1; 330/2; 333/7; 335/3; 437/4; 442/6; 448/3; 453/7; 453/8 Sexism 300/3; 300/4; 301; 303/2 Shadur, Milton 129/6 Shergold, Craig 423/2 Shif, Zohar 453/3 Shotton, Margaret 344/5 Shulman, Kenyon 324/3; 325; 327/5 Sigman, Randy 455/4 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 106/5 Simplex locks 337/6 SJG, see Steve Jackson Games Sklar, Robert Matthew 107/2 SMTP, see Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Social Engineering 210/9; 314/4; 431/1; SNEAKERS (movie review) 446/6 454/2; 454/3 Software patents 416/1 Software piracy 103/5; 105/3; 111/3; 435/7; 436/10; 436/11; 436/12; 436/13; 442/7; 443/2; 443/3; 446/1; 446/3; 447/4; 449/4; 450/2; 450/3; 450/4; 460/6; 460/7; 463/1; 463/2; 463/3; 467/2 Software Publishers Association 103/5; 105/3; 109/6; 117/6; 308/6; 315/2; 406/2; 426/7; 435/7; 436/12; 436/13; 442/7; 443/2; 443/3; 460/7; 463/1; 463/2; 463/3; 467/2 Software Rental 206/5 South Africa 313/4 Southwestern Bell Company 200/3; 213/5; 219/4; 303/2; 307/6; 308/2; 405/2; 430/2; 430/3; 431/1 Soviet Union 201/6 SPA, see Software Publishers Association Space Physics Analysis Network 103/3; 107/3 SPAN, see Space Physics Analysis Network Spafford, Eugene 100/2 Special Computerized Attack Team 323/2 Sprint 108/4 Sterling, Bruce 101/3; 415/8; 461/1; 461/6 Steve Jackson Games 100/2; 101/3; 106/3; 110; 113/5; 122/6; 123/4; 126/2; 127/4; 202/5; 209/5; 211; 213/1; 312/3; 314/3; 315/3; 318; 319/4; 320/4; 415/4; 421/3 Stira, Paul 305/3; 306/4; 430/1; 430/2; 430/3; 431/1; 432/4; 451/2 Stoll, Clifford 106/4; 107/3; 112/3; 306/6; 332/3; 337/3; 444/1; 444/2; 444/3; 444/4; 444/5 Stone, Robert 324/8 Stratton, Bob 457/2 Summercon convention 302; 460/1 Swinyard, William Jr. 423/6 _SysLaw_ 449/5; 467/4; 467/5; 467/6 Taito Software, Inc. 107/5 _TAP_ 112/5; 126/5; 303/2 "Taran King", see Tishler, Randy Taxpayer Assets Project 442/5 Technophiliacs 459/7; 459/8 _Tel Line, The_ 106/2 _TELECOM Digest_ 342/3; 410/2 "Terminus", see Rose, Leonard Texas Public Utilities Commission 307/6; 308/2 Texas Tech University 467/2 Thackeray, Gail 202/5; 219/5; 306/2; 311/3; 323/4; 326/5 "The Dictator" 302; 305/4 "The Grim Reaper" 406/1 "The Leftist", see Darden, Franklin Jr. "The Mentor", see Blankenship, Loyd "The Prophet", see Riggs, Robert "The Ur-vile", see Grant, Adam Thomas, Bob 409/8; 410/6 Thrifty-Tel 319/3; 323/3 Ticer, Scott 454/2; 454/3 Title 18 USC 1343 118/3; 118/4; 121/2; 122/5 Title 18 USC 2314 123/4 Tisher, Randy 211 Toxic Shock 207/8;208/2 Trashing 216; 454/2 Tripwire integrity-monitor 455/5 Trojan horse programs 113/3; 203/2 TRW Information Services 107/2; 430/2; 430/3; 431/1; 437/2; 437/3 Townson, Patrick 100/2; 342/3 _Undercover: Police Surveillance in America_ 321/3 United Software Alliance 406/1 United States Long Distance 420/1 United States Secret Service 100/2; 106/3; 109/3; 109/4; 109/5; 110; 111/4; 112/4; 113/3; 113/5; 114/2; 117/4; 117/6; 118/5; 119; 123/4; 124/2; 125/2; 126/2; 126/4; 127/3; 129/6; 200/3; 201/5; 202/5; 203/2; 204/3; 204/6; 206/2; 206/3; 207/6; 209/5; 211; 216; 302; 305/3; 309/1; 310/1; 313/4; 315/3; 319/4; 320/4; 323/2; 325; 326/3; 339/2; 339/3; 342/2; 342/3; 342/4; 407/2; 412/6; 415/4; 419/2; 421/3; 421/4; 457/1; 457/3; 457/5; 457/6; 464/2; 465/10; 467/2 United States vs. Craig Neidorf 124/2; 124/3; 125/2; 341/3; 407/2 Usenet 409/6; 409/7; 410/1; 410/2; 410/3; 414/4; 439/5 User Bill of Rights 404/2 USLD, see United States Long Distance USSR, Soviet Union USSS, see United States Secret Service US West Communications 405/1; 405/2; 406/4; 408/3 Vajk, Bill 302 Variety and Spice BBS 219/4; 305/8 Virtual reality 423/7 Virus, Christmas 206/5; 207/2 Virus, eastern 201/6; 217/7; 303/4 Virus, general 218/3; 305/5; 409/9; 437/4; 447/4; 449/1; 452/3; 452/5; 453/1; 453/2; 455/1; 456/1; 459/3; 459/4; 465/7 Virus, MBDFA 410/7 Virus, Michelangelo 409/9; 449/1 Virus, military 129/6; 331/8; 343/8 Virus, western 212/9; 219/7; 322/2; 329/7; 410/7; 465/5 Voice mail 212/9 Ward, Grady 204/6 Well, The 110 White House Conference Library and Information Services 329/2 _Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog, The_ 439/4; 462/5; 462/6; 462/7 _Windows_ magazine 456/5 "Wing" 325 Wittman, Richard 343/9; 343/13; 414/9 Woodward, Byron 455/4 Wozniak, Steve 122/6; 123/4 Wraith of the Black Manta 107/5 WWIV bulletin board software 129/2 Xiox 453/7 X-PRESS Informations Services, Ltd. 424/4; 425/1 "Zeke", see Shif, Zohar _Zen and the Art of the Internet_ 438/7; 438/8; 439/5 Zenner, Sheldon 121/5; 123/4; 124/2; 125/2; 202/5; 207/7; 215/2; 407/2 "Zod" 129/6; 200/5; 203/4 END Index ------------------------------ End of Computer Underground Digest #5.95 / END OF VOLUME 5) ************************************ -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. The Little Garden -- admin@admin.tlg.rg.net -- S.F. Bay Area Internetwork From tomj Mon Dec 20 11:20:26 1993 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA11220; Mon, 20 Dec 93 11:20:18 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9312201920.AA11220@wps.com> Subject: People like this should be KILLED To: shit-list Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 11:20:17 -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: 5232 ...and all traces of their existence wiped from every database on the planet, every phonebook every phone-sex hotline. Maybe through extreme vigilance we can stamp this kind of thing out! Probably not. But we can try!!! *This* is what poison, rabid rats, blow-darts, electrical torture, and being run over slowly by a truck as your family is forced to watch, are for! Self defense! The crime?! Bad taste? Idiocy? Foolishness? No -- the pinheaded assumption other people want to indulge in this mall-inspired rubbish. Happy fucken holydays indeed. Forwarded message: > From white@interval.com Mon Dec 20 11:02:46 1993 > Message-Id: <9312201858.AA24545@interval.interval.com> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 11:00:55 -0800 > To: everyone@interval.com, lubdub@aol.com, MOONUNIT@orange.cc.utexas.edu, > pavel@parc.xerox.com, electric@netcom.com (F. Randall Farmer), > "frank chen" , Diane Li , > , > knutson@itsa.ucsf.EDU (Brian Knutson), > Joshua.Loftus@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU, msomol@us.oracle.com, > tmeritt@leland.stanford.edu, arnoma01@dons.ac.usfca.edu, > rauchway@leland.stanford.edu, johnmcw@violet.berkeley.edu, > sunrise@Euphrates.Stanford.EDU, esquivel@Euphrates.Stanford.EDU, > jtsherman@aol.com, renosboy@aol.com, rachelc106@aol.com, kjj@tenet.edu, > jonathan@casa.stanford.edu, skropf@us.oracle.com, jwishnie@vivid.com, > ellen@cs.stanford.edu, ly@cs.stanford.edu, dli@us.oracle.com, > chun@mcc.com, srinija@MCC.COM, vemuri@CS.Stanford.EDU, > dianazon@leland.stanford.edu, opel@leland.stanford.edu, > piggie@leland.stanford.edu, shazam@leland.stanford.edu, > goose@leland.stanford.edu, asd-board@Euphrates.Stanford.EDU, > pcd-students@Euphrates.Stanford.EDU > From: white@interval.com (Sean Michael White) > Subject: Happy Holidays > Cc: asb@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU, electronic.cafe@pro-palmtree.socal.com, > mark@path.net, tomj@fido.wps.com, kathyr@aol.com, > ullmer@bigcheese.math.scarolina.edu, hlr@well.sf.ca.us, > emma@csli.stanford.edu, HARTFIELD@AppleLink.Apple.COM, > 75030.1004@CompuServe.COM, claudlee@aol.com, > workinger@leland.stanford.edu > > Happy Chanukah, > merry Christams, > joyous Kwanza, > happy New Year, > and safe passage to you all. > > If I've left you out, you have different needs this season, or even if you > have everything you need, I wish you hope and fulfillment in the coming > year. And please remember to have fun! > > With my love, <--- I can see tears running down your cheek now...;-) > Sean > > > > *%\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\^/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%* > * X ! X ! X ! X ! . ! X ! X ! X ! X * > * O O O O .|. O O O O * > * -*- * > * Athbhliain Faoi Mhaise! '|` _ Happy New Year! * > * Inpakaramaana Vidumurai! *:* ("D Chag Sameach! * > * Frohliche Weihnachten! * . * ~(=r Boas Festas! * > * Sarbatori Fericite! ** ** .../__\ Gut Yontif! * > * Joyous Solstice! *** o *** [MJ] Iyi YIllar! * > * Mele Kalikimake! *\ O * Hyvaeae Lomaa! * > * Merry Christmas! ** \\ ** Wesolych Swiat! * > * Happy Hanukkah! *** \\ *** Stastny Novy Rok! * > * Pari Artsagourt! * o \\ * Kellemes Unnepeket! * > * Shub Naya Baras! ** O \\** Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! * > * Vesele Vanoce! ***\\ o \*** Ching Chi Shen Tan! * > * Feliz Navidad! * \\ o * Felichan Jarfinon! * > * Joyeux Noel! ** o \\ O ** Joy to the World * > * Bom Natal! **** \\ o **** - And to All a * > * God Jul! ** o o \\ o ** Good Night! * > * Cheers! *** O \\ *** * > * *:D o_ ***************************** e@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > * _ <' )~ ___ ##### _v_ @@@"""""""""""""* > * /<~ ["""] V o [___] _@_ #####__|~|_ A @" ___ ___________ > * %'= @|HHH|[~] U |\ /|/^^^\##[{}{}{}{](") ! II__[w] | [i] [z] | > * %' ) /%|HHH||$|/V\|XXX|~~~~~##[}{}{}{}](:)<*> {======|_|~~~~~~~~~| > * %(__6 |==D|HHH||$|\^/|/ \|=====##[{}{}{}{](:) V /oO--000'"`-OO---OO-' > ************************************************************************ > > I don't know the original creator of this ascii-art but I thought > it was the closest thing to the season. > > ------- > white@interval.com "I'm being followed by a moon shadow..." > > > -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. The Little Garden -- admin@admin.tlg.rg.net -- S.F. Bay Area Internetwork From sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU Mon Dec 20 17:32:59 1993 Received: from ucscb.UCSC.EDU by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA00894; Mon, 20 Dec 93 17:32:52 -0800 Received: by ucscb.UCSC.EDU (5.65/1.34) id AA20914; Mon, 20 Dec 93 17:32:10 -0800 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 17:32:10 -0800 From: sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Michael-Jay Demarco Conui) Message-Id: <9312210132.AA20914@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> To: shit-list@fido.wps.com, tomj@wps.com Subject: Re: People like this should be KILLED Ooooooh- icky! Tom, that *was* gross. Nasty. It should be taken out back, and put out of our misery!!! Happy Fucken Genocide, --Deke From flesh Tue Dec 21 21:52:47 1993 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA06150; Tue, 21 Dec 93 21:52:42 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9312220552.AA06150@wps.com> Subject: Re: People like this should be KILLED To: Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 21:52:42 -0800 (PST) Cc: shit-list In-Reply-To: <9312201920.AA11220@wps.com> from "Tom Jennings" at Dec 20, 93 11:20:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 462 Well. You know, we all could reply to Mr White. A nice little message like.... Mr. White. Having recieved your xmas greeting, I would like to take this opprotunity to point out that it is this holiday season, the most suicides a year occur. I would've been one of them, however, I decided to happily imursh myself in my work. It was working too! Was, until I recived your letter. I'm going to slit my wrists now. Thanks for pushing me over the edge. From flesh Mon Dec 27 22:13:01 1993 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA02347; Mon, 27 Dec 93 22:12:56 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9312280612.AA02347@wps.com> Subject: new addition To: tomj (Tom Jennings) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 22:12:55 -0800 (PST) Cc: shit-list X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 357 In the electronic-universe section of the gopher, I installed a link with the Moral Decay mud. I don't realy go for muds, mushes, and so on, however this one is both interesting, original, and fun. It's an incredible time-waster, but then again, there are times when using your brain requires a break. This does the trick. Flesh-bob sez check it out. From flesh Thu Dec 30 20:42:35 1993 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA03707; Thu, 30 Dec 93 20:42:24 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9312310442.AA03707@wps.com> Subject: End of Year E-Zine Listing (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 20:42:23 -0800 (PST) Cc: zorca@aol.com, zorca@well.sf.ca.us, cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu, tjames@netcom.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 18314 Forwarded message: From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Thu Dec 30 18:43:27 1993 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 93 21:26:34 -0500 Message-Id: <9312310226.AA28681@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> From: Anonymous To: cypherpunks@toad.com X-Remailed-By: Anonymous X-Ttl: 0 X-Notice: This message was forwarded by a software- automated anonymous remailing service. Subject: End of Year E-Zine Listing Organization: Anarchy for Tentacles Once again, we find ourselves facing a new jahre and pondering the untold wonders of the anarchy of cyberspace! In celebration of this joyous occasion, I've decided to post a compilation of electronic 'zines for your perusal. I especially like the reference for Practical Anarchy and will probably send a copy of this message to our old chum, Larry "the squid" Detweiler. Enjoy, - Spooge /---------------- good stuff follows ------------------/ Last updated: 27-Aug-93 by John Labovitz This is a summary of electronically-accessible zines. The format should be fairly self-explanatory. In most cases, descriptions are excerpted from the masthead of the zine listed. [For those of you not acquainted with the zine world, "zine" is short for either "fanzine" or "magazine," depending on your point of view. Zines are generally produced by one person or a small group of people, done mostly for fun, and often irreverent, bizarre, and/or esoteric. Zines are not "mainstream" publications -- they generally do not contain advertisements (except, sometimes, advertisements for other zines), do not have a large subscriber base, and are not produced to make money.] If you have any additions, deletions, or changes to this list, please email them to johnl@netcom.com. I will post this list (and/or changes to the list) to various mailing lists and Usenet news groups. It can also be obtained via anonymous FTP from netcom.com as "/pub/johnl/zines/e-zine-list", and via email (either single issues or subscriptions) from e-zines-request@netcom.com. If you publish an e-zine, or know someone who does, please send a copy to e-zines@netcom.com and I'll add the relevant info to this database. All comments, suggestions, changes, deletions, etc., are welcomed and encouraged. John Labovitz johnl@netcom.com ----- Arm The Spirit "Arm The Spirit is a anti-imperialist/autonomist collective that disseminates information about liberation struggles in advanced capitalist countries and in the so-called 'Third World.' Our focus is on armed struggle and other forms of militant resistance but we do not limit ourselves to this. In Arm The Spirit you can find news on political prisoners in North America and Europe, information on the struggles of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, communiques from guerrilla groups, debate and discussion on armed struggle and much more. We also attempt to cover anti-colonial national liberation struggles in Kurdistan, Puerto Rico, Euskadi and elsewhere." Editor(s): Autonome Forum Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Politics/Arm.the.Spirit E-Mail: aforum@moose.uvm.edu, subject: "ATS: e-mail request" Postal: Arm The Spirit, c/o Wild Seed Press, POB 57584, Jackson Stn., Hamilton, Ontario, L8P 4X3, Canada Arm The Spirit, c/o Autonome Forum, POB 1242, Burlington, VT 05402-1242, USA Phone: +1 416 527 2419 (FAX for Canadian group) Armadillo Culture "Being the excremeditation of a hyperactive armadillo's activities, opinions, and other stuff..." Editor(s): Steve Okay Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Armadillo.Culture Postal: Armadillo Culture, 2857 Foxmill Rd. Herndon, VA 22071, USA ART COM "An online magazine forum dedicated to the interface of contemporary art and new communication technologies." Editor(s): Carl Eugene Loeffler Format: ASCII text Usenet: alt.artcom Postal: ART COM, POB 193123 Rincon, San Francisco, CA 94119-3123, USA Phone: +1 415 431 7524 (voice), +1 415 431 7841 (fax) Other: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL): ART COM Electronic Network (ACEN) BLINK "BLINK would like to be a forum for the issues surrounding the intersection of consciousness and technology. This is our best defense against postmodern angst: To critically look at and anticipate the cultural and social changes spurred by the rapid development of technology." Editor(s): Justin Kerr Joe Germuska (managing editor) Danny Dunlavy (chiphead) Jake Eldridge (assistant editor) Format: ASCII text FTP: blink.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/blink Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Computer Underground Digest "An open forum dedicated to sharing information among computerists and to the presentation and debate of diverse views." Editor(s): Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.eff.org:/pub/cud etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/CuD/cud halcyon.com:/pub/mirror/cud aql.gatech.edu;/pub/eff/cud ftp.ee.mu.oz.au:/pub/text/CuD (Australia) nic.funet.fi:pub/doc/cud (Finland) ftp.warwick.ac.uk:pub/cud (United Kingdom) Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Jim Thomas, Department of Sociology, NIU, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA Phone: +1 815 753 0303 (voice), +1 815 753 6302 (fax) Usenet: comp.society.cu-digest CompuServe: DL0 and DL4 of the IBMBBS SIG; DL1 of LAWSIG; DL1 of TELECOM Other: GEnie: PF*NPC RT libraries; VIRUS/SECURITY library America Online: PC Telecom forum under "computing newsletters" Delphi: General Discussion database of the Internet SIG PC-EXEC BBS (+1 414 789 4210) Rune Stone BBS (IIRG WHQ) (+1 203 832 8441) NUP:Conspiracy RIPCO BBS (+1 312 528 5020) via Fidonet File Request from 1:11/70 ComNet in LUXEMBOURG BBS (+352 466893) Bits against the Empire BBS (+39 461 980493) (Italy) Crash "A guide to traveling through the underground. Alternative travel stories, hints, and tips." Editor(s): John Labovitz Miles Poindexter Nigel French Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/crash Postal: Crash, 519 Castro #7, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA CTHEORY -- Virtual Review of Books for Post-Modem Theory "CTHEORY is a new international, electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture. Reviews are posted monthly of key books in contemporary discourse as well as theorisations of major 'event-scenes' in the mediascape. Editors and contributors include: Kathy Acker, Jean Baudrillard, Bruce Sterling, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Deena and Michael Weinstein. CTHEORY will also offer the possibility of interactive discussions among its subscribers in the electronic theory 'sim-posium/salon.'" Editor(s): Format: ASCII text E-Mail: LISTSERV@VM1.MCGILL.CA with text body: "SUBSCRIBE CTHEORY " Cyberspace Vanguard "News and Views of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Universe" Editor(s): TJ Goldstein Sarah Alexander, Administrator Format: ASCII text E-Mail: cn577@cleveland.freenet.edu Cyberspace Vanguard@1:157/564 (FidoNet) CVANGUARD (Delphi) Postal: Cyberspace Vanguard, POB 25704, Garfield Heights, OH 44125, USA Drum "Drum is not an isolated event but an ongoing process." Editor(s): R. Patrick Jones Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Drum Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Ego Project "This 'zine is a product of me and as such will contain anything I feel like putting in it. Whatever I feel like putting in it shall include, but is not limited too, anything I feel applies to Gothdom in general. Album/single/tape reviews, book and movies reviews, etc. The Sisters of Mercy and the Mission are my main focuses, but since neither of them put out music on anything resembling a frequent basis I imagine other groups will be featured quite frequently." Editor(s): Corey Nelson Format: ASCII text Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Postal: Ego Project, 1717 Monroe #b, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA Factsheet Five / Factsheet Five - Electric "FactSheet Five is the central clearinghouse of information about zines, those opinionated publications with press runs of 50 to 5000 (often done through surrepticious use of on-the-job supplies and xerox). Mike Gunderloy of Rennsalaer, NY published 44 editions of F5. Hudson Luce published the final issue, #45. I opened my big mouth (or, rather, let my fingers blab away) about doing an online, net-accessible version of FactSheet Five." Editor(s): Jerod Pore (electronic version) Seth Friedman (paper version) Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Factsheet.Five nigel.msen.com:/pub/newsletters/F5-E src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/literary/newsletters/factsheet-five Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us WAIS: nigel.msen.com Postal: Factsheet Five, 1800 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94102, USA (This is for *BOTH* the electronic and paper versions; or for items that can't be delivered to a PO box) Seth Friedman, POB 170099, San Francisco, CA 94117-0099, USA (This is for the paper version *only*, especially subscriptions) Other: The WELL BBSes around the world FUNHOUSE! -- The cyberzine of degenerate pop culture "Dedicated to whatever happens to be on my mind at the time I'm writing. The focus will tend to be on those aspects of our fun-filled world which aren't given the attention of the bland traditional media, or which have been woefully misinterpreted or misdiagnosed by the same. FUNHOUSE! is basically a happy place, and thus the only real criteria I will try to meet is to refrain from rants, personal attacks, and flames -- and thus FUNHOUSE! is an apolitical place. Offbeat films, music, literature, and experiences are largely covered, with the one stipulation that articles are attempted to be detailed and well documemnted, although this is no guarantee of completeness or correctness, so that the interested reader may further pursue something which may spark her interest." Editor(s): Jeff Dove Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com in /pub/johnl/zines/funhouse High Weirdness by Email random Internet information Editor(s): Format: ASCII text Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us International TeleTimes "International Teletimes is a general interest magazine. There are several recurring monthly columns but the rest of the content changes from month to month as new themes are chosen. The goal of Teletimes is to attract a large variety of writers from all over the world so that the readers will be exposed to a great variety of ideas and opinions." Editor(s): Ian Wojtowicz Format: Macintosh Doc-Maker application FTP: sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/per/teletimes-*.hqx Postal: TeleTimes International, 3938 West 30th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6S 1X3, Canada Other: OneNet (network of FirstClass BBSes) InterText "InterText is a bi-monthly fiction magazine with over 1000 subscribers worldwide." Editor(s): Jason Snell Geoff Duncan Format: ASCII text PostScript FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/EFF.journals/InterText CompuServe: Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Zines from the Net" section, accessible by typing "GO EFFSIG" Obscure Electronic "OBSCURE is the zine that profiles the people in this publishing subculture." Editor(s): James P Romenesko Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Obscure.Electric Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Postal: POB 1334, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA People Power Update The newsletter of the bicycle advocacy group "People Power" Editor(s): Ron Goodman Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/ppu Postal: People Power, 226 Jeter Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA Phone: +1 408 425 8851 (voice/fax) Play by EMail "Electronic 'zine about free play-by-electronic-mail wargames. Reviews, game openings, information." Editor(s): Greg Lindahl Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.erg.sri.com:/pub/pbm/PBEM-Fanzine Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Usenet: rec.games.pbm Practical Anarchy Online "An electronic zine concerning anarchy from a practical point of view, to help you put some anarchy in your everyday life. The anarchy scene is covered through reviews and reports from people in the living anarchy." Editor(s): Chuck Munson Bitnet: cmunson@wiscmacc.bitnet Mikael Cardell Format: PostScript ASCII text FTP: export.acs.cmu.edu:/pub/quanta ftp.eff.org:/journals/Quanta lth.se:/documents/Quanta catless.newcastle.ac.uk:/pub/Quanta Gopher: gopher-srv.acs.cmu.edu (in the Archives directory) Postal: Quanta, 3003 Van Ness St. NW #S919, Washington, DC 20008, USA CompuServe: "Zines from the Net" area of the EFF forum (accessed by typing GO EFFSIG) Scream Baby "What do I want? Besides world peace, a sexy Mexican maid, and someone to use their fucking brains around here, I want a really good all-encompassing-sub-culture zine. Music, literature, art, television, film, weird space-time kinks, events, information, news, humor, interviews, and re:views of 'Stuff I Think Is Cool.' Not all at once, of course. Each issue of Scream Baby will come out whenever I can scrape together 25-30 kilobytes of really good stuff." Editor(s): Blade X Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/ScreamBaby ftp.eff.org:/pub/journals/ScreamBaby Postal: Cyberlicious , POB 4510, Austin, TX 78765 USA Other: WWIV: 46@5285 Unplastic News "the odd e-mail magazine w/a fever" Editor(s): Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.eff.org:/pub/cud/misc/journals etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/EFF.journals/Unplastic_News quartz.rutgers.edu:pub/journals Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Voices from the Net "There are a lot of folks with at least one foot in this complex region we call (much too simply) "the net." There are a lot of voices on these wires. From IRC to listservs, MUDspace to e-mail, Usenet group to commercial bbs -- all kinds of voices -- loud and quiet, anonymous and well-known. And yet, it's far from clear what it might mean to be a "voice" from, or on, the net. Enter "Voices from the Net": one attempt to sample, explore, the possibilities (or perils) of net.voices. Worrying away at the question. Running down the meme. Looking/listening, and reporting back to you." Editor(s): Bookish CountZer0 NEURO Format: Macintosh HyperCard stack ASCII text FTP: sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/per/voices-*.hqx etext.archive.umich.edu:pub/zines/Voices E-Mail: Voices-request@andy.bgsu.edu to subscribe: subject: Voices from the Net body: subscribe Whole Earth Review "We are dedicated to demystification, to self-teaching, and to encouraging people to think for themselves. Thus our motto: 'ACCESS TO TOOLS AND IDEAS.' Tools in the Whole Earth sense include hammers, books, and computer conferencing systems. Our readers are a community of tool-users who share information with one another. The ideas we make accessible have not often been found in university courses, but are becoming recognized as part of what you need to know to be truly educated. Our readers contribute to the editorial content as well, with both reviews and articles." Editor(s): <> Format: ASCII text Macintosh PageMaker 4.2 files Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us E-Mail: wer@well.sf.ca.us Postal: Whole Earth Review, 27 Gate Five Road, Sausalito, CA 94965, USA Phone: +1 415 332 1716 (voice), +1 415 332 3110 (fax) ----- Sites archiving e-zines with FTP: ftp.eff.org etext.archive.umich.edu ftp.cic.net quartz.rutgers.edu ftp.msen.com ftp.halcyon.com world.std.com netcom.com in /pub/johnl/zines) nigel.msen.com in /pub/newsletters grind.isca.uiowa.edu (128.255.19.233) in /info/journals Sites archive e-zines with Gopher: gopher.eff.org etext.archive.umich.edu gopher.cic.net gopher.msen.com gopher.well.sf.ca.us world.std.com gopher.unt.edu ----- From tomj Fri Dec 31 00:57:45 1993 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA05024; Fri, 31 Dec 93 00:57:35 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9312310857.AA05024@wps.com> Subject: End of Year E-Zine Listing (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 00:57:34 -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: 17593 Flesh pulled this from the cypherpunks mailing list. I edited all the (((((((Forwarded from...)...)...)...)...)...)...)... junk. Especially note the archives of ezines at the end. Last updated: 27-Aug-93 by John Labovitz This is a summary of electronically-accessible zines. The format should be fairly self-explanatory. In most cases, descriptions are excerpted from the masthead of the zine listed. [For those of you not acquainted with the zine world, "zine" is short for either "fanzine" or "magazine," depending on your point of view. Zines are generally produced by one person or a small group of people, done mostly for fun, and often irreverent, bizarre, and/or esoteric. Zines are not "mainstream" publications -- they generally do not contain advertisements (except, sometimes, advertisements for other zines), do not have a large subscriber base, and are not produced to make money.] If you have any additions, deletions, or changes to this list, please email them to johnl@netcom.com. I will post this list (and/or changes to the list) to various mailing lists and Usenet news groups. It can also be obtained via anonymous FTP from netcom.com as "/pub/johnl/zines/e-zine-list", and via email (either single issues or subscriptions) from e-zines-request@netcom.com. If you publish an e-zine, or know someone who does, please send a copy to e-zines@netcom.com and I'll add the relevant info to this database. All comments, suggestions, changes, deletions, etc., are welcomed and encouraged. John Labovitz johnl@netcom.com ----- Arm The Spirit "Arm The Spirit is a anti-imperialist/autonomist collective that disseminates information about liberation struggles in advanced capitalist countries and in the so-called 'Third World.' Our focus is on armed struggle and other forms of militant resistance but we do not limit ourselves to this. In Arm The Spirit you can find news on political prisoners in North America and Europe, information on the struggles of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, communiques from guerrilla groups, debate and discussion on armed struggle and much more. We also attempt to cover anti-colonial national liberation struggles in Kurdistan, Puerto Rico, Euskadi and elsewhere." Editor(s): Autonome Forum Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Politics/Arm.the.Spirit E-Mail: aforum@moose.uvm.edu, subject: "ATS: e-mail request" Postal: Arm The Spirit, c/o Wild Seed Press, POB 57584, Jackson Stn., Hamilton, Ontario, L8P 4X3, Canada Arm The Spirit, c/o Autonome Forum, POB 1242, Burlington, VT 05402-1242, USA Phone: +1 416 527 2419 (FAX for Canadian group) Armadillo Culture "Being the excremeditation of a hyperactive armadillo's activities, opinions, and other stuff..." Editor(s): Steve Okay Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Armadillo.Culture Postal: Armadillo Culture, 2857 Foxmill Rd. Herndon, VA 22071, USA ART COM "An online magazine forum dedicated to the interface of contemporary art and new communication technologies." Editor(s): Carl Eugene Loeffler Format: ASCII text Usenet: alt.artcom Postal: ART COM, POB 193123 Rincon, San Francisco, CA 94119-3123, USA Phone: +1 415 431 7524 (voice), +1 415 431 7841 (fax) Other: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL): ART COM Electronic Network (ACEN) BLINK "BLINK would like to be a forum for the issues surrounding the intersection of consciousness and technology. This is our best defense against postmodern angst: To critically look at and anticipate the cultural and social changes spurred by the rapid development of technology." Editor(s): Justin Kerr Joe Germuska (managing editor) Danny Dunlavy (chiphead) Jake Eldridge (assistant editor) Format: ASCII text FTP: blink.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/blink Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Computer Underground Digest "An open forum dedicated to sharing information among computerists and to the presentation and debate of diverse views." Editor(s): Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.eff.org:/pub/cud etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/CuD/cud halcyon.com:/pub/mirror/cud aql.gatech.edu;/pub/eff/cud ftp.ee.mu.oz.au:/pub/text/CuD (Australia) nic.funet.fi:pub/doc/cud (Finland) ftp.warwick.ac.uk:pub/cud (United Kingdom) Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Jim Thomas, Department of Sociology, NIU, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA Phone: +1 815 753 0303 (voice), +1 815 753 6302 (fax) Usenet: comp.society.cu-digest CompuServe: DL0 and DL4 of the IBMBBS SIG; DL1 of LAWSIG; DL1 of TELECOM Other: GEnie: PF*NPC RT libraries; VIRUS/SECURITY library America Online: PC Telecom forum under "computing newsletters" Delphi: General Discussion database of the Internet SIG PC-EXEC BBS (+1 414 789 4210) Rune Stone BBS (IIRG WHQ) (+1 203 832 8441) NUP:Conspiracy RIPCO BBS (+1 312 528 5020) via Fidonet File Request from 1:11/70 ComNet in LUXEMBOURG BBS (+352 466893) Bits against the Empire BBS (+39 461 980493) (Italy) Crash "A guide to traveling through the underground. Alternative travel stories, hints, and tips." Editor(s): John Labovitz Miles Poindexter Nigel French Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/crash Postal: Crash, 519 Castro #7, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA CTHEORY -- Virtual Review of Books for Post-Modem Theory "CTHEORY is a new international, electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture. Reviews are posted monthly of key books in contemporary discourse as well as theorisations of major 'event-scenes' in the mediascape. Editors and contributors include: Kathy Acker, Jean Baudrillard, Bruce Sterling, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Deena and Michael Weinstein. CTHEORY will also offer the possibility of interactive discussions among its subscribers in the electronic theory 'sim-posium/salon.'" Editor(s): Format: ASCII text E-Mail: LISTSERV@VM1.MCGILL.CA with text body: "SUBSCRIBE CTHEORY " Cyberspace Vanguard "News and Views of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Universe" Editor(s): TJ Goldstein Sarah Alexander, Administrator Format: ASCII text E-Mail: cn577@cleveland.freenet.edu Cyberspace Vanguard@1:157/564 (FidoNet) CVANGUARD (Delphi) Postal: Cyberspace Vanguard, POB 25704, Garfield Heights, OH 44125, USA Drum "Drum is not an isolated event but an ongoing process." Editor(s): R. Patrick Jones Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Drum Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Ego Project "This 'zine is a product of me and as such will contain anything I feel like putting in it. Whatever I feel like putting in it shall include, but is not limited too, anything I feel applies to Gothdom in general. Album/single/tape reviews, book and movies reviews, etc. The Sisters of Mercy and the Mission are my main focuses, but since neither of them put out music on anything resembling a frequent basis I imagine other groups will be featured quite frequently." Editor(s): Corey Nelson Format: ASCII text Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Postal: Ego Project, 1717 Monroe #b, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA Factsheet Five / Factsheet Five - Electric "FactSheet Five is the central clearinghouse of information about zines, those opinionated publications with press runs of 50 to 5000 (often done through surrepticious use of on-the-job supplies and xerox). Mike Gunderloy of Rennsalaer, NY published 44 editions of F5. Hudson Luce published the final issue, #45. I opened my big mouth (or, rather, let my fingers blab away) about doing an online, net-accessible version of FactSheet Five." Editor(s): Jerod Pore (electronic version) Seth Friedman (paper version) Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Factsheet.Five nigel.msen.com:/pub/newsletters/F5-E src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/literary/newsletters/factsheet-five Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us WAIS: nigel.msen.com Postal: Factsheet Five, 1800 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94102, USA (This is for *BOTH* the electronic and paper versions; or for items that can't be delivered to a PO box) Seth Friedman, POB 170099, San Francisco, CA 94117-0099, USA (This is for the paper version *only*, especially subscriptions) Other: The WELL BBSes around the world FUNHOUSE! -- The cyberzine of degenerate pop culture "Dedicated to whatever happens to be on my mind at the time I'm writing. The focus will tend to be on those aspects of our fun-filled world which aren't given the attention of the bland traditional media, or which have been woefully misinterpreted or misdiagnosed by the same. FUNHOUSE! is basically a happy place, and thus the only real criteria I will try to meet is to refrain from rants, personal attacks, and flames -- and thus FUNHOUSE! is an apolitical place. Offbeat films, music, literature, and experiences are largely covered, with the one stipulation that articles are attempted to be detailed and well documemnted, although this is no guarantee of completeness or correctness, so that the interested reader may further pursue something which may spark her interest." Editor(s): Jeff Dove Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com in /pub/johnl/zines/funhouse High Weirdness by Email random Internet information Editor(s): Format: ASCII text Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us International TeleTimes "International Teletimes is a general interest magazine. There are several recurring monthly columns but the rest of the content changes from month to month as new themes are chosen. The goal of Teletimes is to attract a large variety of writers from all over the world so that the readers will be exposed to a great variety of ideas and opinions." Editor(s): Ian Wojtowicz Format: Macintosh Doc-Maker application FTP: sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/per/teletimes-*.hqx Postal: TeleTimes International, 3938 West 30th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6S 1X3, Canada Other: OneNet (network of FirstClass BBSes) InterText "InterText is a bi-monthly fiction magazine with over 1000 subscribers worldwide." Editor(s): Jason Snell Geoff Duncan Format: ASCII text PostScript FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/EFF.journals/InterText CompuServe: Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Zines from the Net" section, accessible by typing "GO EFFSIG" Obscure Electronic "OBSCURE is the zine that profiles the people in this publishing subculture." Editor(s): James P Romenesko Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Obscure.Electric Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Postal: POB 1334, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA People Power Update The newsletter of the bicycle advocacy group "People Power" Editor(s): Ron Goodman Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/ppu Postal: People Power, 226 Jeter Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA Phone: +1 408 425 8851 (voice/fax) Play by EMail "Electronic 'zine about free play-by-electronic-mail wargames. Reviews, game openings, information." Editor(s): Greg Lindahl Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.erg.sri.com:/pub/pbm/PBEM-Fanzine Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Usenet: rec.games.pbm Practical Anarchy Online "An electronic zine concerning anarchy from a practical point of view, to help you put some anarchy in your everyday life. The anarchy scene is covered through reviews and reports from people in the living anarchy." Editor(s): Chuck Munson Bitnet: cmunson@wiscmacc.bitnet Mikael Cardell Format: PostScript ASCII text FTP: export.acs.cmu.edu:/pub/quanta ftp.eff.org:/journals/Quanta lth.se:/documents/Quanta catless.newcastle.ac.uk:/pub/Quanta Gopher: gopher-srv.acs.cmu.edu (in the Archives directory) Postal: Quanta, 3003 Van Ness St. NW #S919, Washington, DC 20008, USA CompuServe: "Zines from the Net" area of the EFF forum (accessed by typing GO EFFSIG) Scream Baby "What do I want? Besides world peace, a sexy Mexican maid, and someone to use their fucking brains around here, I want a really good all-encompassing-sub-culture zine. Music, literature, art, television, film, weird space-time kinks, events, information, news, humor, interviews, and re:views of 'Stuff I Think Is Cool.' Not all at once, of course. Each issue of Scream Baby will come out whenever I can scrape together 25-30 kilobytes of really good stuff." Editor(s): Blade X Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/ScreamBaby ftp.eff.org:/pub/journals/ScreamBaby Postal: Cyberlicious , POB 4510, Austin, TX 78765 USA Other: WWIV: 46@5285 Unplastic News "the odd e-mail magazine w/a fever" Editor(s): Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.eff.org:/pub/cud/misc/journals etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/EFF.journals/Unplastic_News quartz.rutgers.edu:pub/journals Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Voices from the Net "There are a lot of folks with at least one foot in this complex region we call (much too simply) "the net." There are a lot of voices on these wires. From IRC to listservs, MUDspace to e-mail, Usenet group to commercial bbs -- all kinds of voices -- loud and quiet, anonymous and well-known. And yet, it's far from clear what it might mean to be a "voice" from, or on, the net. Enter "Voices from the Net": one attempt to sample, explore, the possibilities (or perils) of net.voices. Worrying away at the question. Running down the meme. Looking/listening, and reporting back to you." Editor(s): Bookish CountZer0 NEURO Format: Macintosh HyperCard stack ASCII text FTP: sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/per/voices-*.hqx etext.archive.umich.edu:pub/zines/Voices E-Mail: Voices-request@andy.bgsu.edu to subscribe: subject: Voices from the Net body: subscribe Whole Earth Review "We are dedicated to demystification, to self-teaching, and to encouraging people to think for themselves. Thus our motto: 'ACCESS TO TOOLS AND IDEAS.' Tools in the Whole Earth sense include hammers, books, and computer conferencing systems. Our readers are a community of tool-users who share information with one another. The ideas we make accessible have not often been found in university courses, but are becoming recognized as part of what you need to know to be truly educated. Our readers contribute to the editorial content as well, with both reviews and articles." Editor(s): <> Format: ASCII text Macintosh PageMaker 4.2 files Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us E-Mail: wer@well.sf.ca.us Postal: Whole Earth Review, 27 Gate Five Road, Sausalito, CA 94965, USA Phone: +1 415 332 1716 (voice), +1 415 332 3110 (fax) ----- Sites archiving e-zines with FTP: ftp.eff.org etext.archive.umich.edu ftp.cic.net quartz.rutgers.edu ftp.msen.com ftp.halcyon.com world.std.com netcom.com in /pub/johnl/zines) nigel.msen.com in /pub/newsletters grind.isca.uiowa.edu (128.255.19.233) in /info/journals Sites archive e-zines with Gopher: gopher.eff.org etext.archive.umich.edu gopher.cic.net gopher.msen.com gopher.well.sf.ca.us world.std.com gopher.unt.edu ----- From flesh Sun Jan 2 17:19:21 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA16524; Sun, 2 Jan 94 17:19:13 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401030119.AA16524@wps.com> Subject: _The_Hacker_Crackdown_, _Three_Years_Later_ (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 17:19:13 -0800 (PST) Cc: cs000rrs@selway.unt.edu, zorca@aol.com, zorca@well.sf.ca.us, tjames@netcom.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 23713 Forwarded message: From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Sun Jan 2 07:40:57 1994 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 94 10:06:58 -0500 From: ferguson@icm1.icp.net (Paul Ferguson) Message-Id: <9401021506.AA14149@icm1.icp.net> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: _The_Hacker_Crackdown_, _Three_Years_Later_ I bought Bruce Sterling's book, _The_Hacker_Crackdown_ when it was first published in November 1992. A lot of us followed along with the events outlined in the book in real time, so it was genuinely refreshing to see Bruce author an afterward, "...Three Years Later", in the electronic freeware release, which made its debut on The Well's gopher yesterday. The remainder of the book is available via gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us 70 follow the menu options to: /Publications/authors/Sterling/hc Cheers. 8<--------------------- cut here -------------------------- Bruce Sterling bruces@well.sf.ca.us Literary Freeware: Not for Commercial Use THE HACKER CRACKDOWN Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier Afterword: The Hacker Crackdown Three Years Later Three years in cyberspace is like thirty years anyplace real. It feels as if a generation has passed since I wrote this book. In terms of the generations of computing machinery involved, that's pretty much the case. The basic shape of cyberspace has changed drastically since 1990. A new U.S. Administration is in power whose personnel are, if anything, only too aware of the nature and potential of electronic networks. It's now clear to all players concerned that the status quo is dead-and-gone in American media and telecommunications, and almost any territory on the electronic frontier is up for grabs. Interactive multimedia, cable-phone alliances, the Information Superhighway, fiber- to-the-curb, laptops and palmtops, the explosive growth of cellular and the Internet -- the earth trembles visibly. The year 1990 was not a pleasant one for AT&T. By 1993, however, AT&T had successfully devoured the computer company NCR in an unfriendly takeover, finally giving the pole-climbers a major piece of the digital action. AT&T managed to rid itself of ownership of the troublesome UNIX operating system, selling it to Novell, a netware company, which was itself preparing for a savage market dust-up with operating-system titan Microsoft. Furthermore, AT&T acquired McCaw Cellular in a gigantic merger, giving AT&T a potential wireless whip-hand over its former progeny, the RBOCs. The RBOCs themselves were now AT&T's clearest potential rivals, as the Chinese firewalls between regulated monopoly and frenzied digital entrepreneurism began to melt and collapse headlong. AT&T, mocked by industry analysts in 1990, was reaping awestruck praise by commentators in 1993. AT&T had managed to avoid any more major software crashes in its switching stations. AT&T's newfound reputation as "the nimble giant" was all the sweeter, since AT&T's traditional rival giant in the world of multinational computing, IBM, was almost prostrate by 1993. IBM's vision of the commercial computer-network of the future, "Prodigy," had managed to spend $900 million without a whole heck of a lot to show for it, while AT&T, by contrast, was boldly speculating on the possibilities of personal communicators and hedging its bets with investments in handwritten interfaces. In 1990 AT&T had looked bad; but in 1993 AT&T looked like the future. At least, AT&T's *advertising* looked like the future. Similar public attention was riveted on the massive $22 billion megamerger between RBOC Bell Atlantic and cable-TV giant Tele-Communications Inc. Nynex was buying into cable company Viacom International. BellSouth was buying stock in Prime Management, Southwestern Bell acquiring a cable company in Washington DC, and so forth. By stark contrast, the Internet, a noncommercial entity which officially did not even exist, had no advertising budget at all. And yet, almost below the level of governmental and corporate awareness, the Internet was stealthily devouring everything in its path, growing at a rate that defied comprehension. Kids who might have been eager computer-intruders a mere five years earlier were now surfing the Internet, where their natural urge to explore led them into cyberspace landscapes of such mindboggling vastness that the very idea of hacking passwords seemed rather a waste of time. By 1993, there had not been a solid, knock 'em down, panic-striking, teenage-hacker computer-intrusion scandal in many long months. There had, of course, been some striking and well-publicized acts of illicit computer access, but they had been committed by adult white-collar industry insiders in clear pursuit of personal or commercial advantage. The kids, by contrast, all seemed to be on IRC, Internet Relay Chat. Or, perhaps, frolicking out in the endless glass-roots network of personal bulletin board systems. In 1993, there were an estimated 60,000 boards in America; the population of boards had fully doubled since Operation Sundevil in 1990. The hobby was transmuting fitfully into a genuine industry. The board community were no longer obscure hobbyists; many were still hobbyists and proud of it, but board sysops and advanced board users had become a far more cohesive and politically aware community, no longer allowing themselves to be obscure. The specter of cyberspace in the late 1980s, of outwitted authorities trembling in fear before teenage hacker whiz- kids, seemed downright antiquated by 1993. Law enforcement emphasis had changed, and the favorite electronic villain of 1993 was not the vandal child, but the victimizer of children, the digital child pornographer. "Operation Longarm," a child-pornography computer raid carried out by the previously little-known cyberspace rangers of the U.S. Customs Service, was almost the size of Operation Sundevil, but received very little notice by comparison. The huge and well-organized "Operation Disconnect," an FBI strike against telephone rip-off con-artists, was actually larger than Sundevil. "Operation Disconnect" had its brief moment in the sun of publicity, and then vanished utterly. It was unfortunate that a law-enforcement affair as apparently well-conducted as Operation Disconnect, which pursued telecom adult career criminals a hundred times more morally repugnant than teenage hackers, should have received so little attention and fanfare, especially compared to the abortive Sundevil and the basically disastrous efforts of the Chicago Computer Fraud and Abuse Task Force. But the life of an electronic policeman is seldom easy. If any law enforcement event truly deserved full-scale press coverage (while somehow managing to escape it), it was the amazing saga of New York State Police Senior Investigator Don Delaney Versus the Orchard Street Finger- Hackers. This story probably represents the real future of professional telecommunications crime in America. The finger-hackers sold, and still sell, stolen long-distance phone service to a captive clientele of illegal aliens in New York City. This clientele is desperate to call home, yet as a group, illegal aliens have few legal means of obtaining standard phone service, since their very presence in the United States is against the law. The finger-hackers of Orchard Street were very unusual "hackers," with an astonishing lack of any kind of genuine technological knowledge. And yet these New York call-sell thieves showed a street-level ingenuity appalling in its single-minded sense of larceny. There was no dissident-hacker rhetoric about freedom- of-information among the finger-hackers. Most of them came out of the cocaine-dealing fraternity, and they retailed stolen calls with the same street-crime techniques of lookouts and bagholders that a crack gang would employ. This was down- and-dirty, urban, ethnic, organized crime, carried out by crime families every day, for cash on the barrelhead, in the harsh world of the streets. The finger-hackers dominated certain payphones in certain strikingly unsavory neighborhoods. They provided a service no one else would give to a clientele with little to lose. With such a vast supply of electronic crime at hand, Don Delaney rocketed from a background in homicide to teaching telecom crime at FLETC in less than three years. Few can rival Delaney's hands-on, street-level experience in phone fraud. Anyone in 1993 who still believes telecommunications crime to be something rare and arcane should have a few words with Mr Delaney. Don Delaney has also written two fine essays, on telecom fraud and computer crime, in Joseph Grau's *Criminal and Civil Investigations Handbook* (McGraw Hill 1993). *Phrack* was still publishing in 1993, now under the able editorship of Erik Bloodaxe. Bloodaxe made a determined attempt to get law enforcement and corporate security to pay real money for their electronic copies of *Phrack,* but, as usual, these stalwart defenders of intellectual property preferred to pirate the magazine. Bloodaxe has still not gotten back any of his property from the seizure raids of March 1, 1990. Neither has the Mentor, who is still the managing editor of Steve Jackson Games. Nor has Robert Izenberg, who has suspended his court struggle to get his machinery back. Mr Izenberg has calculated that his $20,000 of equipment seized in 1990 is, in 1993, worth $4,000 at most. The missing software, also gone out his door, was long ago replaced. He might, he says, sue for the sake of principle, but he feels that the people who seized his machinery have already been discredited, and won't be doing any more seizures. And even if his machinery were returned -- and in good repair, which is doubtful -- it will be essentially worthless by 1995. Robert Izenberg no longer works for IBM, but has a job programming for a major telecommunications company in Austin. Steve Jackson won his case against the Secret Service on March 12, 1993, just over three years after the federal raid on his enterprise. Thanks to the delaying tactics available through the legal doctrine of "qualified immunity," Jackson was tactically forced to drop his suit against the individuals William Cook, Tim Foley, Barbara Golden and Henry Kluepfel. (Cook, Foley, Golden and Kluepfel did, however, testify during the trial.) The Secret Service fought vigorously in the case, battling Jackson's lawyers right down the line, on the (mostly previously untried) legal turf of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Privacy Protection Act of 1980. The Secret Service denied they were legally or morally responsible for seizing the work of a publisher. They claimed that (1) Jackson's gaming "books" weren't real books anyhow, and (2) the Secret Service didn't realize SJG Inc was a "publisher" when they raided his offices, and (3) the books only vanished by accident because they merely happened to be inside the computers the agents were appropriating. The Secret Service also denied any wrongdoing in reading and erasing all the supposedly "private" e-mail inside Jackson's seized board, Illuminati. The USSS attorneys claimed the seizure did not violate the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, because they weren't actually "intercepting" electronic mail that was moving on a wire, but only electronic mail that was quietly sitting on a disk inside Jackson's computer. They also claimed that USSS agents hadn't read any of the private mail on Illuminati; and anyway, even supposing that they had, they were allowed to do that by the subpoena. The Jackson case became even more peculiar when the Secret Service attorneys went so far as to allege that the federal raid against the gaming company had actually *improved Jackson's business* thanks to the ensuing nationwide publicity. It was a long and rather involved trial. The judge seemed most perturbed, not by the arcane matters of electronic law, but by the fact that the Secret Service could have avoided almost all the consequent trouble simply by giving Jackson his computers back in short order. The Secret Service easily could have looked at everything in Jackson's computers, recorded everything, and given the machinery back, and there would have been no major scandal or federal court suit. On the contrary, everybody simply would have had a good laugh. Unfortunately, it appeared that this idea had never entered the heads of the Chicago-based investigators. They seemed to have concluded unilaterally, and without due course of law, that the world would be better off if Steve Jackson didn't have computers. Golden and Foley claimed that they had both never even heard of the Privacy Protection Act. Cook had heard of the Act, but he'd decided on his own that the Privacy Protection Act had nothing to do with Steve Jackson. The Jackson case was also a very politicized trial, both sides deliberately angling for a long-term legal precedent that would stake-out big claims for their interests in cyberspace. Jackson and his EFF advisors tried hard to establish that the least e-mail remark of the lonely electronic pamphleteer deserves the same somber civil-rights protection as that afforded *The New York Times.* By stark contrast, the Secret Service's attorneys argued boldly that the contents of an electronic bulletin board have no more expectation of privacy than a heap of postcards. In the final analysis, very little was firmly nailed down. Formally, the legal rulings in the Jackson case apply only in the federal Western District of Texas. It was, however, established that these were real civil- liberties issues that powerful people were prepared to go to the courthouse over; the seizure of bulletin board systems, though it still goes on, can be a perilous act for the seizer. The Secret Service owes Steve Jackson $50,000 in damages, and a thousand dollars each to three of Jackson's angry and offended board users. And Steve Jackson, rather than owning the single-line bulletin board system "Illuminati" seized in 1990, now rejoices in possession of a huge privately-owned Internet node, "io.com," with dozens of phone-lines on its own T-1 trunk. Jackson has made the entire blow-by-blow narrative of his case available electronically, for interested parties. And yet, the Jackson case may still not be over; a Secret Service appeal seems likely and the EFF is also gravely dissatisfied with the ruling on electronic interception. The WELL, home of the American electronic civil libertarian movement, added two thousand more users and dropped its aging Sequent computer in favor of a snappy new Sun Sparcstation. Search-and-seizure dicussions on the WELL are now taking a decided back-seat to the current hot topic in digital civil liberties, unbreakable public-key encryption for private citizens. The Electronic Frontier Foundation left its modest home in Boston to move inside the Washington Beltway of the Clinton Administration. Its new executive director, ECPA pioneer and longtime ACLU activist Jerry Berman, gained a reputation of a man adept as dining with tigers, as the EFF devoted its attention to networking at the highest levels of the computer and telecommunications industry. EFF's pro- encryption lobby and anti-wiretapping initiative were especially impressive, successfully assembling a herd of highly variegated industry camels under the same EFF tent, in open and powerful opposition to the electronic ambitions of the FBI and the NSA. EFF had transmuted at light-speed from an insurrection to an institution. EFF Co-Founder Mitch Kapor once again sidestepped the bureaucratic consequences of his own success, by remaining in Boston and adapting the role of EFF guru and gray eminence. John Perry Barlow, for his part, left Wyoming, quit the Republican Party, and moved to New York City, accompanied by his swarm of cellular phones. Mike Godwin left Boston for Washington as EFF's official legal adviser to the electronically afflicted. After the Neidorf trial, Dorothy Denning further proved her firm scholastic independence-of-mind by speaking up boldly on the usefulness and social value of federal wiretapping. Many civil libertarians, who regarded the practice of wiretapping with deep occult horror, were crestfallen to the point of comedy when nationally known "hacker sympathizer" Dorothy Denning sternly defended police and public interests in official eavesdropping. However, no amount of public uproar seemed to swerve the "quaint" Dr. Denning in the slightest. She not only made up her own mind, she made it up in public and then stuck to her guns. In 1993, the stalwarts of the Masters of Deception, Phiber Optik, Acid Phreak and Scorpion, finally fell afoul of the machineries of legal prosecution. Acid Phreak and Scorpion were sent to prison for six months, six months of home detention, 750 hours of community service, and, oddly, a $50 fine for conspiracy to commit computer crime. Phiber Optik, the computer intruder with perhaps the highest public profile in the entire world, took the longest to plead guilty, but, facing the possibility of ten years in jail, he finally did so. He was sentenced to a year and a day in prison. As for the Atlanta wing of the Legion of Doom, Prophet, Leftist and Urvile... Urvile now works for a software company in Atlanta. He is still on probation and still repaying his enormous fine. In fifteen months, he will once again be allowed to own a personal computer. He is still a convicted federal felon, but has not had any legal difficulties since leaving prison. He has lost contact with Prophet and Leftist. Unfortunately, so have I, though not through lack of honest effort. Knight Lightning, now 24, is a technical writer for the federal government in Washington DC. He has still not been accepted into law school, but having spent more than his share of time in the company of attorneys, he's come to think that maybe an MBA would be more to the point. He still owes his attorneys $30,000, but the sum is dwindling steadily since he is manfully working two jobs. Knight Lightning customarily wears a suit and tie and carries a valise. He has a federal security clearance. Unindicted *Phrack* co-editor Taran King is also a technical writer in Washington DC, and recently got married. Terminus did his time, got out of prison, and currently lives in Silicon Valley where he is running a full-scale Internet node, "netsys.com." He programs professionally for a company specializing in satellite links for the Internet. Carlton Fitzpatrick still teaches at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, but FLETC found that the issues involved in sponsoring and running a bulletin board system are rather more complex than they at first appear to be. Gail Thackeray briefly considered going into private security, but then changed tack, and joined the Maricopa County District Attorney's Office (with a salary). She is still vigorously prosecuting electronic racketeering in Phoenix, Arizona. The fourth consecutive Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference will take place in March 1994 in Chicago. As for Bruce Sterling... well *8-). I thankfully abandoned my brief career as a true-crime journalist and wrote a new science fiction novel, *Heavy Weather,* and assembled a new collection of short stories, *Globalhead.* I also write nonfiction regularly, for the popular-science column in *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.* I like life better on the far side of the boundary between fantasy and reality; but I've come to recognize that reality has an unfortunate way of annexing fantasy for its own purposes. That's why I'm on the Police Liaison Committee for EFF- Austin, a local electronic civil liberties group (eff- austin@tic.com). I don't think I will ever get over my experience of the Hacker Crackdown, and I expect to be involved in electronic civil liberties activism for the rest of my life. It wouldn't be hard to find material for another book on computer crime and civil liberties issues. I truly believe that I could write another book much like this one, every year. Cyberspace is very big. There's a lot going on out there, far more than can be adequately covered by the tiny, though growing, cadre of network-literate reporters. I do wish I could do more work on this topic, because the various people of cyberspace are an element of our society that definitely requires sustained study and attention. But there's only one of me, and I have a lot on my mind, and, like most science fiction writers, I have a lot more imagination than discipline. Having done my stint as an electronic-frontier reporter, my hat is off to those stalwart few who do it every day. I may return to this topic some day, but I have no real plans to do so. However, I didn't have any real plans to write "Hacker Crackdown," either. Things happen, nowadays. There are landslides in cyberspace. I'll just have to try and stay alert and on my feet. The electronic landscape changes with astounding speed. We are living through the fastest technological transformation in human history. I was glad to have a chance to document cyberspace during one moment in its long mutation; a kind of strobe-flash of the maelstrom. This book is already out-of- date, though, and it will be quite obsolete in another five years. It seems a pity. However, in about fifty years, I think this book might seem quite interesting. And in a hundred years, this book should seem mind-bogglingly archaic and bizarre, and will probably seem far weirder to an audience in 2092 than it ever seemed to the contemporary readership. Keeping up in cyberspace requires a great deal of sustained attention. Personally, I keep tabs with the milieu by reading the invaluable electronic magazine Computer underground Digest (tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu with the subject header: SUB CuD and a message that says: SUB CuD your name your.full.internet@address). I also read Jack Rickard's bracingly iconoclastic *Boardwatch Magazine* for print news of the BBS and online community. And, needless to say, I read *Wired,* the first magazine of the 1990s that actually looks and acts like it really belongs in this decade. There are other ways to learn, of course, but these three outlets will guide your efforts very well. When I myself want to publish something electronically, which I'm doing with increasing frequency, I generally put it on the gopher at Texas Internet Consulting, who are my, well, Texan Internet consultants (tic.com). This book can be found there. I think it is a worthwhile act to let this work go free. From thence, one's bread floats out onto the dark waters of cyberspace, only to return someday, tenfold. And of course, thoroughly soggy, and riddled with an entire amazing ecosystem of bizarre and gnawingly hungry cybermarine life- forms. For this author at least, that's all that really counts. Thanks for your attention *8-) Bruce Sterling bruces@well.sf.ca.us -- New Years' Day 1994, Austin Texas 8<----------------- cut here --------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Paul Ferguson Sprint Managed Router Network Engineering tel: 703.904.2437 Herndon, Virginia USA internet: ferguson@icp.net From tomj Mon Jan 3 00:06:29 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA18090; Mon, 3 Jan 94 00:06:21 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9401030806.AA18090@wps.com> Subject: Cu Digest, #6.01 (Content Index of Vol 5, 1993) (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 00:06:19 -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: 36101 This is the end-of-year issue of CuD. It's pretty hackish, but very smart. I believe you should read some stuff you don't understand, cuz humans absorb things sideways sometimes. Pretty cool politics here for the most part. This is a cumulative index to previous issues, is why I'm maling it. Flesh, could you add this to the Gopher? Computer underground Digest Sun Jan 02 1994 Volume 6 : Issue 01 ISSN 1004-042X Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET) Archivist: Brendan Kehoe Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala Ian Dickinson Copy Editor: Craig Shergold, XIII CONTENTS, #6.01 (Jan 02 1994) File 1 --Cu Digest Content Index, Vol 5.01 - 5.95 (1993) Cu-Digest is a weekly electronic journal/newsletter. Subscriptions are available at no cost electronically from tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu. The editors may be contacted by voice (815-753-0303), fax (815-753-6302) or U.S. mail at: Jim Thomas, Department of Sociology, NIU, DeKalb, IL 60115. 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DISCLAIMER: The views represented herein do not necessarily represent the views of the moderators. Digest contributors assume all responsibility for ensuring that articles submitted do not violate copyright protections. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 00:18:00 BST From: grmeyer@GENIE.GEIS.COM Subject: Cu Digest Content Index, Vol 5.01 - 5.95 (1993) 1994 begins with the Contents of articles from 1993, and for those who missed it, the cummulative subject/topic/name index for Volumes 1-4 were published in #5.94. Be sure to send in articles, news, and other information you think readers would find interesting. Happy '94--- Gordon and Jim ======================================================= Cu DIGEST VOLUME 5 (1993) INDEX ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.01 (Jan 6, 1993) File 1--Index to CuD volume 4 (1992) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.02 (Jan 10, 1992) File 1--DoJ Has NOT "Authorized" Keystroke Monitoring File 2--Re: Dorm Room Raid (CuD #4.67) File 3--Reports on Ames Raid Available File 4--Hysteria from Forbes via NPR File 5--OECD Security Guidelines File 6--CU IN THE NEWS File 7--"Any one Who Owns a Scanner is a Hacker, or..." File 8--FYI: 3rd Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.03 (Jan 13, 1992) File 1--Moderators' Cornered File 2--STEVE JACKSON GAMES TRIAL DATE SET File 3--Re: COM DAILY ON F.C.C. File 4--with regards to the DoJ's keystroke logging notice File 5--Re: White Sands (SIMTEL-20) and copyrighted software File 6--Re: Dorm Room Raid (CuD #5.02) File 7--Follow-up to CuD #5.02 File 2 [Re: Dorm Room Raid (CuD #4.67)] File 8--CFP-3 Scholarships Available File 9--Canadian Media and BBSes File 10--United Kingdom Software Seizure Laws File 11--High Students charged in Computer Burglaries (Reprint) File 12--Comments on _Hacker_Crackdown_ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.04 (Jan 17, 1992) File 1--Steve Jackson Games case trial postponed File 2--MAJOR CHANGES AT THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION File 3--Newsbytes on EFF Reorganization File 4--Some Questions & Comments on EFF Reorganization File 5--Transcript of Secret Service Press Conference in Lubbock ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.05 (Jan 20, 1993) File 1--Balancing Computer Crime Statutes and Freedom File 2--Encryption issues File 3--Response to Mark Carter in CuD #5.02 and #5.03 File 4--Released GSA Docs Slam FBI Wiretap Proposal File 5--Attempted Mindvox Break-in File 6--Keyboarding Explosive Data for Homemade Bombs ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.06 (Jan 24, 1993) File 1--Introduction to Second SPA & BSA Issue File 2--Re: Taking a Look at the SPA (CuD 4.63) File 3--Reaction to SPA statements in CuD 4.63 File 4--SPA EDUCATES THE PUBLIC ON SOFTWARE COPYRIGHTS - NOT! File 5--A Comment on the SPA (Gray Areas Reprint) File 6--Nintendo News Release (Re: BSA APL Bust - Oct '92) File 7--The BSA, APL BBS, and Anti-Piracy Crackdowns ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.07 (Jan 26, 1993) File 1--Mark Carter Clears his Name... File 2--Reply to St.Catharine's "Porn" stories (RE: CuD 5.02) File 3--Legal Strategy on 2600 Nov. '92 Mall Harassment File 4--Re: "Explosive Data for Bombs" (CuD #5.05) File 5--Response to Prosecutor Citarella's Notes (CuD 5.06) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.08 (Jan 28, 1993) File 1--Response to "Resistance at Shopping Mall" (CuD 5.07) File 2--Offworld BBS Raided (StLPD File 3--Colonel Guilty of Sending Computer Porn File 4--ISPTS Organizing Information File 5--New case for EFF, ACLU, and CPSR File 6--Public Service for Cornell Hackers File 7--CFP Special Issue on Security [Change in Due Date] File 8--Talking with the Underground ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.09 (Jan 31, 1993) File 1--Media hype goes both ways (in re: Forbes article) File 2--Forbes, NPR, and a Response to Jerry Leichter File 3--Revised Computer Crime Sent File 4--Balancing Computer Crime Statutes and Freedom +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.10 (Feb 3, 1993) File 1--Steve Jackson Games Trial Summary File 2--More Background on SJG Trial File 3--Steve Jackson Games case (Day 1) File 4--Steve Jackson Games Update 1/28/93 Day 2) File 5--Houston Chron's View of Abernathy Trial (Reprint) File 6--the most wonderful thing happened at the trial File 7--Cell-phone encryption and tapping File 8--Clever Tactics Against Piracy File 9--Rusty and Edie's BBS raided by FBI ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.11 (Feb 7, 1993) File 1--Introduction to a Chat with the SPA File 2--A Chat with the SPA File 3--How does the SPA Calculate Piracy? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.12 (Feb 10, 1993) File 1--CPSR Sues Secret Service for 2600 Docs File 2--Clever Tactics Against Piracy File 3--SPA has Banner Year File 4--Mitch Kapor's Forbes Column on S.893 File 5--Re: Pirate Software File 6--In Re "Legal Strategy on 2600 Nov. '92" (CuD #5.07) File 7--Common Carrier Review Request File 8--Some Comments on "Approach Zero" (review) File 9--For your mailing lists/newsgroups ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.13 (Feb 14, 1993) File 1--Talking with the Underground File 2--System Surfing at U-Cal/Davis File 3--Unemployed Programmers Turning their Talents to Evil File 4--"Hackers" take on the UFOs? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.14 (Feb 17, 1993) File 1--Re: CuD, #5.11 - SPA's Piracy Estimates File 2--Cu News: Pirate Amnesty, Toll Fraud Decline, etc File 3--Re: EFF in Time's Cyberpunk Article File 4--Behar's Response to Godwin File 5--Censorship in Cyberspace File 6--Undercover Rambos?? (NYT Story on "Hakr Trakr") File 7--Social Engineering (Re: CuD #.13) File 8--Cybersmut is Good File 9--Suggestions For a Hi-tech Crime-investigators' Seminar? File 10--Re: Unemployed Programmers Turning Talents to Evil (#5.13) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.15 (Feb 21 1993) File 1--MODERATORS' Corner (ah, sundry snippets) File 2--Re SPA/Piracy (CuD #5.14) File 3--TIME & Puzzlement File 4--Technology and Populist Publishing (GEnie Reprint) File 5--"Time Bomb" Detonated In Pennsylvania File 6--(fwd) CICnet rural datafication / ubiquitous access ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.16 (Feb 24 1993) File 1--Clinton's Silicon Valley Speech/SGI (transcript) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.17 (Feb 28 1993) Subject: File 1--Police motivations re. computer crime Subject: File 2--ACLU Interesting in Rusty & Edie's BBS? Subject: File 3--Re: File 4--Technology & Populist Publishing (#5.15) Subject: File 4--A Case for Electronic Publishing Subject: File 5--Obtaining Back Issues of CuD via FTP Subject: File 6--New Computer Viruses Run Amok (sort of) (Reprint) Subject: File 7--Netsys Startup +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.18 (Mar 7 1993) File 1--PKZIP Bankruptcy Rumor is a *HOAX* File 2--Hackers in the News (Orange County Register Reprint) File 3--GPO ACCESS - WINDO UPDATE File 4--London Times Educational Supplement Article File 5--FWD: The White House Communication Project ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.19 (Mar 10 1993) File 1--Author responds to Shopping Mall criticism File 2--Re: Hackers in the News (CuD #5.18) File 3--Internet Talk Radio (fwd) File 4--Call for Stories -- Reasons to Build the NII +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.20 (Mar 14 1993) File 1--Steve Jackson Games WINS! (fwd) File 1--On-Line GEnie Interview with Bruce Sterling +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.21 (Mar 21 1993) File 1--CuD Mirror Update File 2--New Info in 2600 Case File 3--Official virus-writing contest File 4--comments on proposed virus writing contest (Bontchev) File 5--Comments on proposed virus writing contest (Frisk) File 6--Response: virus-writing contest File 7--Comments on the Virus Writing Contest File 8--Bruce Sterling on GEnie (#5.20) File 9--Re: The White House Communication Project (#5.18) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.22 (Mar 25 1993) File 1--Judge Spark's Decision in Steve Jackson Games Suit ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.23 (Mar 28 1993) -- Response to Virus Writing Contest (#5.21) -- Akron BBS Sting Update -- Getting information to and from the White House +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.24 (Mar 31 1993) File 1--Special Issue on CFP III (introduction) File 2--Computer Freedom and Privacy III Conf. (Report 1) File 3--Computer Freedom and Privacy III Conf. (Report 2) File 4--Computer Freedom and Privacy III Conf. (Report 4) File 5--Computer Freedom and Privacy III Conf. (Report 5) File 6--Computer Freedom and Privacy III Conf. (Report 6) File 7--Computer Freedom and Privacy III Conf. (Report 7) File 8--Bridging the Gaps w/Law Enforcement (View 1) File 9--Bridging the Gaps w/Law Enforcement (View 2) File 10--Bridging the Gaps w/Law Enforcement (View 3) File 11--Bridging the Gaps w/Law Enforcement (View 4) File 12--A Few Final Words about CFP '93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.25 (Apr 4 1993) File 1--CPSR Wins SSN Privacy Case File 2--Re: Debating the Virus contest - 1 (#5.23) File 3--Re: Debating the Virus contest - 2 (#5.23) File 4--Re: Debating the Virus contest - 3 (#5.23) File 5--USPS Freedom of Information Act Requests File 6--Collecting Cu Files (From "LOD") File 7--CU in the news File 8--Comments on SJG Decision (GRID News) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.26 (Apr 11 1993) File 1--Re: Debating the Virus contest - clarification File 2--"The Logic of the Virtual Commons" (Research Report) File 3--CUN News: Online Defamation Alleged / Pentagon Piracy ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.27 (Apr 14 1993) File 1--EFF and CPSR testimony against 18 USC 1030 Sent. Revisions File 2--CPSR Comments on 1030 Guidelines File 3--EFF Response to Proposed Sentencing Guidelines File 4--LEGISLATIVE DATA ONLINE -- AB1624 needs support File 5--AB1624 MANDATES ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS TO LEGISLATIVE RECORDS File 6--Some comments on AB1624 re online legislative access File 7--AB1624 UPDATE#1--Making Leg. Data available Online +++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.28 (Apr 18 1993) File 1--NREN Wrap (or "Joe's Ride at the Houston Chron") File 2--Clinton Proposes National ID Card File 3--White House Crypto Statement File 4--Debate on Gov't Encryption Initiative (from CPSR) File 5--RU Sirius/Mondo interview (from GEnie) File 6--Rune Stone BBS (IIRG Home Board) Back On-Line +++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.29 (Apr 21 1993) File 1--LTES article and Gender on the Nets (Re: CuD 5.18) File 2--LTES article and Gender on the Nets--Response to Larry File 3--LTES Article -- The author Responds ++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.30 (Apr 25 1993) File 1--New disclosures in 2600 case File 2--Press release on "Clipper Chip" encryption initiative File 3--THE CLIPPER CHIP: A TECHNICAL SUMMARY File 4--Sysop jailed in Georgia (article by Lance Rose) File 5--Phone Fraud in the Telecom Industry +++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.31 (Apr 28 1993) File 1--Response to 'Gender on the Nets' (Re CuD #5.29) File 2--Re: Gender on the Nets (Re CuD 5.29) File 3--Re: Sexual Bias on the Net (Re Cud 5.29) File 4--A Female Response to the Gender Question in Cyberspace +++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.32 (May 2 1993) File 1--If you missed the Galactic Hacker Party of 1989.... File 2--SPA Needs A Different Direction File 3--Some thoughts on Clipper and the Constitution (1) File 4--Some thoughts on Clipper and the Constitution (2) File 5--Clinton Administration Freedom of Information Policy File 6--Hacker Accused of Rigging Radio Contests File 7--"Hacker" Executed in China File 8--Electronic Privacy Conf w/Oliver North & Chris Goggans ++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.33 (May 5 1993) File 1--Intro to CPSR/EFF Electronic "Hate-Crimes" Inquiry Responses File 2--SEA letter - Hate Crime File 3--EFF Response to NTIA "Hate Crimes" Inquiry +++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.34 (May 9 1993) File 1--Another response to gender issues File 2-- Response to Wes Morgan File 3--Cryptography and Mythology File 4--New NIST/NSA Revelations File 5--About the Clipper Proposal File 6--Dvorak criticizes the SPA File 7--New 'Zine (ORA.COM) by O'Reilly & Associates ++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.35 (May 12 1993) File 1--My Thoughts/questions on the "Clipper" chip. File 2--Response to Jerry Leichter on Clipper Chip File 3--Response to Rich Mackinnon on Clipper File 4--Another Letter of Concern to "Hate Speech" Inquiry File 5--FBI Raids Telco Manager's Home (TELECOM DIGEST SPECIAL) File 6--DEF CON I Update +++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.36 (May 16 1993) File 1--Yet Another "LOD" Pretender! File 2--Building Bridges of Understanding in LE & Comp. Community File 3--Crypto-Schemes/Mobile Digital Services in Australia File 4--More on Free Speech & Cyberspace File 5--Gene Spafford's Farewell File 6--UPDATE #3-AB1624 Online Access to Legislation / ACT BY 5/13 +++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.37 (May 19 1993) File 1--CPSR Brief in 2600 FOIA Case File 2--Response to Russell Brand (Re CuD 5.36) File 3--"Clipper" Chip Redux File 4--UPDATE #4-AB1624: Legislative Info Online File 5--AB1624-Legislation Online - Making SURE it's "right" File 6--CU In The News--Singapore Piracy / Ethics Conf. ++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.38 (May 22 1993) File 1--Here We Go Again - 2600 Magazine Threatened With Lawsuit File 2--Obtaining Whitehouse E-Publications File 3--UK Computer Misuse case File 4--CPSR Position Openings File 5--A little feedback on Bridges of Understanding ++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.39 (May 30 1993) File 1--The LOD Files - A CuD Critique File 2--Histories of BBSes (excerpts from the LOD files) File 3--LOD Project Summary and Contact Information File 4--An Interview with the LOD +++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.40 (June 02 1993) File 1--Bridges of Understanding File 2--MTV News, Nets, Feedback from Users File 3--CPSR NIST Crypto Statement File 4--AB 1624/Online Info Bill PASSES MAJOR HURDLE! File 5--UPDATE #8-AB1624--Press Freedom for Paper Pubs Only? File 6--Virus News INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 93 ++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.41 (June 06 1993) File 1-- LODCOM@ Mail Bounces Fixed -- File 2-- CuD (and other stuff) for Non-Internet readers File 3-- A New public CU BBS in Southern Italy File 4-- Sending E-Mail to Clinton and Gore File 5-- Electronic fingerprinting of welfare recipients in CA File 6-- Email "Etiquette" File 7-- Microstate: Old Empires and New (New Repub. Reprint) +++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.42 (June 10 1993) File 1--UPDATE #11-AB1624: Passed the Assembly, More to Do! File 2--Rusty and Edies's: More Information File 3--Timeline for a Network History File 4--Re: Fingerprinting Welfare Recipients in CA File 5--Call for Papers for Feminist Theory & Technoculture ++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.43 (June 13 1993) File 1--Hacker testimony to House subcommittee largely unheard File 2--CPSR Clipper Testimony (6-9-93) in House Subcommittee +++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.44 (June 16 1993) File 1--Interview with a Virus Writer (Gray Area Excerpt) ++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.45 (June 20 1993) File 1--LISTSERVE FOR CuD DESPERATELY NEEDED!!! File 2--Re: 2600 testimony to Markey's subcommittee File 3--Newsgroup Moderator Survey -- Respondents Requested File 4--CUnews - SPA sues software rental; Sega/ratings; Censorship File 5--Newsletter on work in computer industry File 6--Course on "Politics and Technology" File 7--GPO WINDO text here! File 8--Re-AB1624: dumbing-down leg displays w/o dumbing-down data File 9--6/17 AB1624: dumbed-down displays - ADDENDA +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.46 (June 23 1993) File 1--Re: File 6--Course on "Politics and Technology" File 2--A public experiment in how private our lives really are File 3--AB1624/Calif Legislature Computer Access -- Full Text File 4--Summercon Synopsis & Playful Precis File 5-- Defense Contractor Attacks Full Disclosure (Reprint) (#1) File 6--The "Offending" Full Disclosure Story (#2) File 7--The Harris Letter Threatening Litigation against FD (#3) File 8--The Full Disclosure Atty's Response to Harris (#4) ++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.47 (June 27 1993) File 1--Squelching the Rumor of the CuD ftp Sites File 2--Another Stupid Rumor Bites the Dust File 3--UPDATE #14-AB1624: bill-text as amended (*improved)* File 4--Re: Full Disclosure TRIGGERFISH Hassle (CuD 5.46) File 5--Response to Interview with a Virus Writer (CuD 5.44) File 6--Virus Hits White House ++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.48 (June 30 1993) File 1--Time to Review Law Enforcement Forfeiture Practices File 2--Reform of Civil Asset Forfeiture Act (HR 2417) +++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.49 (July 4 1993) File 1--*GEnie* Roundtable transcript of VIRUS/SECURITY File 2--CPSR Workplace Privacy Test File 3--JOB OPENING AT EFF File 4--CuDs on BBSes: "Other Side of Infinity" +++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.50 (July 7 1993) File 1--New information on Public Key Patents File 2--Galactic Hacker Party, '93 File 3--On-Line Congressional Hearing File 4--Hacker Listens to Secretary's Aides File 5--Virtually no Reality in "Virtual Reality" File 6--Donation Distinctions (By E-Zine Editors/Moderators)CONTENTS, #5.51 CONTENTS, #5.51 (July 11 1993) File 1--Introduction to the AIS BBS Controversy File 2--Response to RISKS' Anonymous Post attacking AIS BBS File 3--Response to Anonymous: AIS BBS File 4--A User's View of AIS BBS File 5--Fear and Loathing: On the Virus Code Trail at AIS File 6--Media, Anti-virus personnel, Ethics, and AIS ++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.52 (July 14 1993) File 1--Subjective opinion (Paul Ferguson Responds to #5.51) File 2--Update on 2600 Case File 3--BBSes Carrying CuDs File 4--Re: CRYPT Newsletter +++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.53 (July 18 1993) File 1--CPSR Urges Revision of Secrecy System File 2--CPSR/Berkeley Meeting on access to govt info File 3--CU in da Newz File 4--More CuD Sources for Non-Interneters --GEnie File 5--Hyde For Wiretaps File 6--Reply to Ferguson File 7--Re: Cu Digest, #5.51 --The AIS BBS Incident File 8--Viruses (Reply to Paul Ferguson) File 9--Another Reply to Paul Ferguson (RE CuD 5.52) File 10--CONGRESS ASKED FOR HEARINGS ON OWENS (INFO ACCESS) BIL +++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.54 (July 21 1993) File 1--B. Sterling and W. Gibson Comments on Cyberspace & Educ. File 2--An open letter to Frank Tirado (from Paul Ferguson) File 3--Response to The AIS BBS Incident File 4--AIS BBS "debate" ++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.55 (July 21 1993) File 1--"What is CPSR and how can we Join?" File 2--Incident Response Workshop info File 3--"Science & Tech Through Science Fiction" Conference File 4--New hearing set for E-Fingerprinting in SF ++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.56 (July 28 1993) File 1--Akron Anomaly BBS UpDate (Seizure Warrant) File 2--Call for Paper: Computer Network Use and Abuse Conference File 3--Credit Reports and National File 4--UPDATE #19-AB1624: PROGRAMMERS! START YOUR ENGINES! File 5--Community Network Survey Results Available +++++++ CONTENTS, #5.57 ( Aug 1 1993) File 1--Re: Hacker sentencing File 2--Criminal Records Subject to Abuse File 3--UPDATE: Ideas-Exchange listserv/ Legis Data Programmers File 4--Observations from a "non-cyberhead" File 5--Response to "Observations from a 'non-cyberhead'" File 6--Rep. Markey's Letter in re AIS BBS File 7--Response to Rep. Markey's Letter ++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.58 ( Aug 4 1993) File 1--An Apology to Joel Garreau File 2--The Complexity of Issues in the AIS BBS Affair File 3--Virus distribution ++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.59 (Aug 8 1993) File 1-- Unfair Newspaper Article on BBS Network & Replies File 2-- NIRVANAnet BBSes and the Media (CuD Commentary) +++++++ CONTENTS, #5.60 (Aug 11 1993) File 1--CuD #5.59 Glitch & Some Belated Thanks from CuD to "helpers" File 2--Computers, Freedom & Privacy, '94 -- Conference INFO File 3--Congressional Fellowships for PhD/s-telecommunications File 4--$50,000 Fine for "Software Theft" (Canadian News) File 5--SKIPJACK Review (Encryption Background and Assessment) +++++++ CONTENTS, #5.61 (Aug 15 1993) File 1--ERRATA in CuD #5.60 File 2--EFF Job Opening for ONLINE ACTIVIST File 3--NSA Seeks Delay in Clipper File 4--CPSR and the Nat'l Info Infrastructure File 5--Call for Papers IFIP SEC'94 Caribbean File 6--UPDATE #21-AB1624: *ACTION ALERT*: END-GAME APPROACHING File 7--Illinois BBS Sysop Busted for "porn-to-minors" File 8--In response to E-fingerprinting in Calif File 9--Re--NIRVANAnet (A View from Brazil) File 10--Public Domain Internet Information for Teachers File 11--Gory details about texsun (breakin) (fwd) ++++++ CONTENTS, #5.62 (Aug 17 1993) File 1--CU News ("Software felons," "Valuing Info," et. al.) File 2--CuNews ("Technofogies" and more) File 3--Another BBS Seizure in Hartford File 4--Call for Clipper Comments ++++++ CONTENTS, #5.63 (Aug 19 1993) File 1--Frequency of CuDs and Mail Service File 2--Akron BBS Update 6/30/93 - Seeking Equip't Return File 3--SAVE SIMTEL-20!!! File 4--UPDATE #23-AB1624: Clarification of Bill's Obstructors File 5--Digital Library Use (DLU) Project Information File 6--CPSR's 1993 Annual Meeting +++++ CONTENTS, #5.64 (Aug 22 1993) File 1--Has the EFF SOLD OUT?!? File 2--EICAR '93 conference / members' meeting File 3--Re SKIPJACK Review (CuD 5.60) File 4--CuNews ("Smart Kards," Comp Snooping at IRS/FBI, & more) File 5--CuNews -- ("Hackers need not Apply" & more) File 6--Table of Contents for Volume #1 (of P/H Msg Bases) File 7--Graduate Paper Competition for CFP-'94 File 1--Report on Summer Hack-Tic Conference in the Netherlands File 2--Another View of the Hack-tic '93 Conference File 3--Computer Culture and Media Images File 4--Media Images of Cu Digest - CuD Response to SunWorld File 5--CORRECTION on Graduate Paper Competition for CFP-'94 +++++ CONTENTS, #5.65 (August 24 1993) File 7--Graduate Paper Competition for CFP-'94 File 1--Report on Summer Hack-Tic Conference in the Netherlands File 2--Another View of the Hack-tic '93 Conference File 3--Computer Culture and Media Images File 4--Media Images of Cu Digest - CuD Response to SunWorld File 5--CORRECTION on Graduate Paper Competition for CFP-'94 ++++++ CONTENTS, #5.66 (Aug 26 1993) File 1--SPECIAL ISSUES ON BIBLIOS AND RESOURCES File 2--Computerization & Controversy (Biblio Resource) File 3--40Hex is now a print magazine File 4--"In a Different Format" (Review of gender/comp thesis) File 5--"Smoking Dope on IRC--Play/Performance in Cyberspace" File 6--Classifying Grad Theses & Dissertations as "private?" File 7-- O'Reilly Internet Information Service File 8--"The Internet Letter"--Internet's First Commercial Digest +++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.67 (Aug 29 1993) File 1--Having Problems Reading CuD with your Software? File 2--FERPA Redux--more on disses/theses as "private records" File 3--Cops plead no contest to selling data File 4--Article on Patient Privacy File 5--CuNews - Whitehouse Mail; SPA's "Cities of Pirates" File 6--Technology Conversion Conference File 7--"Dirty Dan" Teaches "anti-hacking" to 3rd Graders File 8--Calif Assem. Bill #1624 - Latest Full Text +++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.68 (Sep 1 1993) File 1--SPECIAL ISSUE -- THE INFORMATION SOCIETY (Biblio list) ++++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.69 (Sep 5 1993) File 1--The Ware House BBS Case Reconsidered File 2--Additional Facts in The Ware House (Hartford) BBS Case File 3--Plea for money forwarded from the IIRG File 4--Calif AB 1624 *IMMEDIATE* ACTION NEEDED or 1624 will die! File 5--Model Letter in Support of Cal E-Access Law (AB 1624) +++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.70 (Sep 8 1993) File 1--World Wide Web Newsletter Information File 2--Big time hacker from the small town File 3--Re: A Class Like None Other [revised] File 4--Imaginary Government Reply to Jim Warren's Model Letter File 5--'Zine Watch: CRYPT, GRAY AREAS and BOARDWATCH File 6--Other BBSes Carrying CuD File 7--Phrack now only available on the CuD shadow archives File 8--EFF Position Opening--DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS File 9--Canadian Document Database File 10--UK Privacy International Conference File 11--CALIF E-ACCESS BILL (AB #1624) PASSES!!! +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.71 (Sep 12 1993) File 1--Law enforcement in the Elansky case File 2--The Elansky Case and the (edited) Anarchy Files Reprinted File 3--More Non-Net Sources for CuDs, Phrack, etc +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.72 (Sep 16 1993) File 1--Still more on the Elansky/Hartford BBS Case File 2--Thoughts on the Elansky Case - A Response File 3--Attitude TV show about hackers in Australia File 4--CuNews File 5--CPSR Annual Meeting +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.73 (Sep 19 1993) File 1--U.S. Gov't Begins Attack on Moby Crypto File 2--Phil Zimmermann's Comments on the Moby Crypto Incident File 3--Crypto Witchhunt? File 4--PRESS RELEASE--Clinton Appoints Sci/Tech Czars (satire) File 5--Libertarian Responsibility of The Cyberpunk Movement (Reprint) File 6--CuNews File 7--Summary of Boys in front of Computers (Thesis) File 8--UPDATE #30-AB1624: Gov Has Until Oct.10th File 9--NETSYS.COM - Public Access availability +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.74 (Sep 22 1993) File 1--Phil Zimmerman Comments on Encryption Flap File 2--NEW State Dept FLASH on Moby Clipper (Grady Ward) File 3--"Secret Science" File 4--Comment on Elansky BBS/Conn. Law File 5--Fingerprinting Welfare Recipients File 6--Gov't Computer Databases & Right to Privacy (Thesis Abst) File 7--Revised WH E-mail FAQ +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.75 (Sep 26 1993) File 1--THE ANARCHISTS AMONGST US: Is PBS One of *THEM?* File 2--Elansky/Hartford BBS Update, 25 Sept '93 File 3--Raising the Issue of Copyright on the Nets File 4--Ethics of reposting File 5--Number of CuD Articles File 6--CuD Posting Policies and Processes (A Response) File 7--September 29 BBLISA meeting] File 8--The State of Security of Cyberspace (SRI Research Summary) +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.76 (Sep 29 1993) File 1--Bruce Sterling on ABC/Australia's Attitude (excerpts) File 2--the Cyberspatial Copyright File 3--Forum for Research on Virtual Culture File 4--Computer-Mediated Comm Volume -- Call for Papers File 5--Question EFF yielding of crypto authority to NIST File 6--PGP/Zimmermann News Clippings Needed! File 7--EFF's Comments to NIST on Encryption/Escrow File 8--Three Cheers for Legal Action; Re: Mody Crypto File 9--PumpCon II +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.77 (Oct 3 1993) File 1--Grady Ward DOES NOT Encourage Illegality File 2--Response to Jerry Leichter in re Moby Crypto File 3--EFF RESPONDS TO PGP CASE File 4--Summary of BBLISA meeting (CuD 5.75) File 5--E-Jrnl of Virtual Culture--Gender Issue Call For Papers File 6--B. Sterling's Keynote address at EFF/EFF-Austin Crypt Conf File 7--Summary of EFF/EFF-Austin Cryptography Conference +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.78 (Oct 6 1993) File 1--The Elansky Case (A Response to CuD's Editors) File 2--CuD and the Elansky Case (Response to L. Detweiler) File 3--CA state Legislative Info Bill File 4--U. Minn. Campus Police Investigate Software Theft Ring File 5--Computers & Writing Call for Proposals File 6--ACTIVIST ALERT-CPSR Solicits CLIPPER/SKIPJACK comments +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.79 (Oct 10 1993) File 1--FOIA Releases 10-4-93 File 2--CPSR Key Escrow Comments File 3--Sea Joins the Encryption Game File 4--Re: ITAR and export regulations File 5--Sexual harassment via computers (newspaper article). File 6--The Net and Netizens (Paper) File 7--E-mail Announcements From O'Reilly & Associates File 8--A Few More CuD-Carrying BBSes File 9--Survey: what harassment _is_ there on the Net? +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.80 (Oct 13 1993) File 1--CALIF AB1624 signed into law - PUBLIC INFO ACCESS! File 2--Thanks to The folks who made AB1624 possible File 3--Response to Cohen in re ITAR & Export Regs File 4--Space computer hacker gets bond. File 5--all eff.org machines moving 10/15-10/18 File 6--IGC Wins Public Interest Aw File 7--Response to PGP Encryption Flap (RE:CuD 574) File 8--Elansky/Hartford bbs Hearings - Case Continues +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.81 (Oct 17 1993) File 1--Another BBS/Bombing Connection (Ill.) File 2--BBS "Porn" Bust in Oklahoma - Another LE Misstep? File 3--A Few Biblio Items (Paulsen, Encryption, & P. Zimmerman) File 4--Fourth Annual HOHOCON File 5--"Hacker" Documentary Proposed File 6--CuNews File 7--Student Pugwash Conference File 8--Response to CuD 5.80 - Itar article ++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.82 (Oct 20 1993) File 1--Fair Info Practices with Comp. Supported Coop Work File 2--LA Times does cyphertech; odds & ends File 3--IGC Wins Social Responsibility Award File 4--Full Description of Proposed "Hacker" Documentary" ++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.83 (Oct 24 1993) File 1--CuD is taking TWO WEEKS OFF (Returning 7 November) File 2--Elansky Accepts Plea Agreement (Hartford BBS update) File 3--A Foreign Embassy Information Infrastructure File 4--DES Broken? File 5--Computers & Sustainable Society File 6--Students Suspended For Electronic Documents File 7--NOMA (Nat'l Online Media Association) BBS Org. Formed File 8--A Reporter meets "cyberpunks" (news item) File 9--"Cyber Comics" (Monterey Cty Coast Weekly Summary) File 10--Belated response to F. Cohen (CuD 5.80) ++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.84 (Nov 7 1993) File 1--Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '94 Conference File 2--CFP '94 Scholarship Announcements File 3--Korea 94: Call for Papers File 4--CPSR NII Paper File 5--DES: Broken! File 6--NAFTA mandates software patents (fwd) File 7--Phiber Optik Sentenced to One Year in Prison ++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.85 (Nov 10 1993) File 1--Electronic 'Zine List ++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.86 (Nov 14 1993) File 1--Details on Phiber Optik Sentencing (Newsbytes Reprint) File 2--Sentencing in Elansky Case set for Nov. 19 File 3--BCS Community Technology Publication Available File 4--NII Call for Action File 5--On-Line Access to Gov't Info in Texas File 6--CPSR NII Call for Action File 7--DOS 6.2 BUG!!! ++++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.87 (Nov 17 1993) File 1--Mike Godwin's Letter to Judge Stanton (in re phiber optik) File 2--Another Comment on Phiber sentencing File 3--CuD Commentary on Phiber Optik Sentencing File 4--CPSR Crypto Resolution File 5--Operation "Root Canal" File 6--ANNOUNCEMENT/Cyberculture Documenatary (fwd) File 7--Internet Encyclopedia (Interpedia) group project/mailing list File 8--Dos Bug (Re CuD 5.86) File 9--Students Suspended For Electronic Documents File 10--U.S. Law and the Constitution File 11--DES Key Search Paper Available +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.88 (Nov 21 1993) File 1--Michael Elansky ("Ionizer") Sentenced / Saga ends File 2--Electronic Bill Of Rights and Responsibilities File 3--Student sues to regain Internet access File 4--Toll Fraud on French PBXs--Phreaking File 5--Brendan Kehoe File 6--Advertise your skills! +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.89 (Nov 28 1993) File 1--Cyberspace and Social Struggle File 2--Computers and the Poor: A Brand New Poverty File 3--A Psychopunk's Manifesto File 4--ANNOUNCEMENT: Markey Bill debuts in House File 5--Response to Steshenko case (in re CuD 5.88) File 6--What's a "CuD?" File 7--CuD has Moved to a New LISTSERV at UIUC ++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.90 (Dec 1 1993) File 1--Conference in Russia File 2--HR 3627 - Export Controls on Cryptography Software File 3--Psuedospoofed again File 4--re: Student sues to regain Internet access (CuD 5.88) File 5--Re: Cu Digeset, #5.89 File 6--Commentary on Cyber-issues in Elansky/Ionizer Sentence ++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.91 (Dec 5 1993) File 1--Anarchy Gone Awry File 2--PC Security books reprints material from AIS (Review) File 3--Apple Computers bitten by Conservatives File 4--GAO Report on Computers and Privacy File 5--New Docs Reveal NSA Role in FBI Digital Tele Proposal File 6--REMINDER: CFP '94 SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE APPROACHING File 7--DIAC-94 Call for Participation +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.92 (Dec 8 1993) File 1--Senator Simon Introduces Privacy Bill File 2--Cantwell & Markey bills, GAO report, etc. online at EFF File 3--ANNOUNCEMENT: DPSWG Crypto-Policy Statement to White House File 4--A Superhighway Through the Wasteland? File 5--Health Privacy Radio Program File 6--Apple "Accepts" Texas Bigotry +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.93 (Dec 12 1993) File 1--Internet Resources -- U.S. Federal Gov't Information +++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.94 (Dec 15 1994) File 1--EFF Policy on Cryptography and Privacy / 8 Dec '93 File 2--CPSR Clipper Letter to Clinton File 3--EFF Statement on Markey Infrastructure Bill File 4--Child Porn Bust in North Carolina File 5--Complaints prompt Patent Office hearings on SOFTWARE PATENTS File 6--Edited ASIS '94 Mid Year Meeting Announcement ++++++++++ CONTENTS, #5.95 (Dec 19 1995) File 1--CUMMULATIVE SUBJECT/TOPIC INDEX TO CuDS - Vols 1 to 4 ============== END CONTENTS, VOL 5 =================== ------------------------------ End of Computer Underground Digest #6.01 ************************************ From flesh Mon Jan 3 13:24:32 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA20471; Mon, 3 Jan 94 13:24:26 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401032124.AA20471@wps.com> Subject: Brendan Kehoe critically injured in car accident (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 13:24:25 -0800 (PST) Cc: cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu, zorca@well.sf.ca.us, zorca@aol.com, tjames@netcom.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1361 Forwarded message: From @VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU:owner-cudigest@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU Mon Jan 3 13:00:06 1994 Message-Id: <9401032100.AA20399@wps.com> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 14:41:00 CST Reply-To: TK0JUT2@MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU Sender: CU-DIGEST list From: TK0JUT2%NIU.bitnet@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Brendan Kehoe critically injured in car accident To: Multiple recipients of list CUDIGEST Brendan Kehoe, Cu Digest archivist at ftp.eff.org and author of ZEN AND THE ART OF THE INTERNET, was critically injured in an automobile accident in Pennsylvania on Friday, 31 December. He sustained massive head injuries, but on Monday, the prognosis for his survival was "cautiously optimistic," according to his brother. Tragically, the severity of the injuries will likely produce permanent disability, although the nature and extent remains uncertain at this time. Doctors expect that he will be semi-comatose for at least two weeks. The hospital is not allowing him to receive flowers or other tangibles. Cards may be sent to him at: Brendan Kehoe c/o Alice Kehoe Penn Tower Hotel Civic Center Blvd ad 34th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Brendan will not be able to directly communicate for some time. But, his brother and a few friends intend to set up a net-link to keep people informed of his condition. From flesh Tue Jan 4 00:31:54 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA23047; Tue, 4 Jan 94 00:31:49 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401040831.AA23047@wps.com> Subject: Here come the data fascists (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 00:31:48 -0800 (PST) Cc: zorca@well.sf.ca.us, cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu, tjames@netcom.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2352 Forwarded message: From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Mon Jan 3 15:12:14 1994 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 14:53:16 -0800 From: Brad Dolan Message-Id: <199401032253.OAA00394@well.sf.ca.us> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Here come the data fascists Well, here it comes guys: --------------------------------------------------------------------- LET'S MAKE SURE GOVERNMENT STEERS DATA HIGHWAY IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION San Jose Mercury News Sunday, January 2, 1994 By LAWRENCE J. MAGID (...) Do we really need Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Congress, the FCC, the FTC and countless other bureaucracies meddling in this new industry? The answer is a qualified yes. While industry will and should take the lead in developing new products and services, it is the role of government to take the long view to assure that these services are implemented in a way that is fair and fruitful. We don't need unnecessary bureaucracies, but we also don't want the educational equivalent of lead poisoning or data equivalent of gridlock. The government's role is especially crucial in a world where physical geographic borders are increasingly irrelevant. Think about the cybernetic equivalent of illegal immigration and smuggling. The Internet doesn't have border patrols to protect our intellectual property. The government must be involved, but, as the Vice President has promised, it must also leave lots of room for both entrepreneurs and the corporate giants to play their hands. (...) Lawrence J. Magid writes a telecommunications column weekly for the Mercury News and is author of ''The Little PC Book, a Gentle Introduction to Personal Computers.'' You can write to him via Mercury Center Online at LarryMagid or the Internet at magid@latimes.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crypto? Why that would make it impossible for the data police to do their jobs! Anyway, only someone with something to hide would use crypto! Try to hold 'em off with this one, it worked elsewhere for a while: "When crypto is outlawed, only outlaws will have crypto". It's like listening to the raindrops at the start of a storm. Corporate America just woke up and realized we have a good thing that it doesn't control. It will soon rectify that. Pessimistically yours, bdolan@well.sf.ca.us From flesh Tue Jan 4 22:45:21 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA26858; Tue, 4 Jan 94 22:45:12 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401050645.AA26858@wps.com> Subject: sex lies and christianity To: shit-list Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 22:45:12 -0800 (PST) Cc: zorca@aol.com, zorca@well.sf.ca.us, tjames@netcom.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 9336 A friend forwarded this to me. This would explain why Falwell, Swaggert, and a slew of other xtains are the way they are.... Kinda makes me want to go out and have screaming sex with anyone..... Enjoy... > >From noring@netcom.com Tue Jan 4 15:07:35 MST 1994 > Article: 4 of alt.christnet.sex > Xref: selway.umt.edu alt.christnet.sex:4 alt.sex:63497 soc.couples:8611 > Newsgroups: alt.christnet.sex,alt.sex,soc.couples > Path: selway.umt.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!noring > From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) > Subject: You may like this! Advice for the Young Bride > Message-ID: > Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) > Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 20:24:35 GMT > Lines: 147 > > Hello, > > A while ago I pulled this off the net. Some have said that this is a fake > and that it was written much later than 1894 (the evidence is that, to some, > the language and wording sounds more modern); however, several people have > given me evidence to support that it is real. Whether or not it is authentic, > it does show how the Christian view of sex can get distorted from what the > Bible teaches! I do know real-life, so-called Christians who essentially > believe what is written below. > > Enjoy! > > Jon Noring > > ****************************************************************************** > > INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE > > On the Conduct and Procedure of the Intimate and Personal Relationships of > the Marriage State for the Greater Spiritual Sanctity of this Blessed Sacrament > and the Glory of God by Ruth Smythers, beloved wife of the Reverend L.D. > Smythers of the Arcadian Methodist Church of the Eastern Regional Conference. > Published in the year of our Lord 1894, Spiritual Guidance Press, New York > City. > > To the sensitive young woman who has had benefits of proper upbringing, the > wedding day is ironically, both the happiest and the most terrifying day of > her life. On the positive side, there is the wedding itself, in which the > bride is the central attraction in a beautiful and inspiring ceremony, > symbolizing her triumph in securing a male to provide for all her needs for > the rest of her life. On the negative side, there is the wedding night, > during which the bride must pay the piper, so to speak, by facing for the > first time the terrible experience of sex. > > At this point, dear reader, let me concede one shocking truth. Some young > women actually anticipate the wedding night with curiousity and pleasure! > Beware such an attitude! A selfish and sensual husband can easily take > advantage of such a bride. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be > forgotten: GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. > Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of > sexual lust. > > On the other hand, the bride's terror need not be extreme. While sex is > at best revolting and at worse rather painful, it has to be endured, and > has been by women since the beginning of time, and is compensated for by > the monogamous home and by the children produced through it. > > It is useless, in most cases, for the bride to prevail upon the groom to > forego the sexual initiation. While the ideal husband would be one who would > approach his bride only at her request and only for the purpose of begetting > offspring, such nobility and unselfishness cannot be expected from the > average man. > > Most men, if not denied, would demand sex almost every day. The wise bride > will permit a maximum of two brief sexual experiences weekly during the first > months of marriage. As time goes by she should make every effort to reduce > this frequency. > > Feigned illness, sleepiness, and headaches are among the wife's best friends > in this matter. Arguements, nagging, scolding, and bickering also probe > very effective, if used in the late evening about an hour before the husband > would normally commence his seduction. > > Clever wives are ever on the alert for new and better methods of denying > and discouraging the amorous overtures of the husband. A good wife should > expect to have reduced sexual contacts to one a week by the end of the > first year of marriage. > > By the tenth anniversary many wives have managed to complete their child > bearing and have achieved the ultimate goal of terminating all sexual > contacts with the husband. By this time she can depend upon his love for > the children and social pressure to hold the husband in the home. > > Just as she should be ever alert to keep the quantity of sex as low as > possible, the wise bride will pay equal attention to limiting the kind and > degree of sexual contacts. Most men are by nature rather perverted, and > if given half a chance, would engage in quite a variety of the most revolting > practices. These practices include among others performing the normal act > in abnormal positions: mouthing the female body: and offering their own > vile bodies to be mouthed in turn. > > Nudity, talking about sex, reading stories about sex, viewing photographs > and drawings depicting or suggesting sex are other obnoxious habits the > male is likely to aquire if permitted. > > A wise bride will make it her goal never to allow her husband to see her > unclothed body, and never allow him to display his unclothed body to her. > Sex, when it cannot be prevented, should be practiced only in total darkness. > Many women have found it useful to have thick cotton nightgowns for > themselves and pajamas for their husbands. These should be donned in > seperate rooms. They need not be removed during the sex act. Thus, a > minimum of flesh is exposed. > > Once a bride has donned her gown and turned off all the lights, she should > lie quietly upon the bed and await her groom. When he comes groping into > the room she should make no sound to guide him in her direction, lest he > take this as a sigh of encouragement. She should let him grope in the > dark. There is always the hope that he will stumble and incur some slight > injury which she can use as an excuse to deny him sexual access. > > When he finds her; the wife should lie as still as possible. Bodily motion > on her part could be interpreted as sexual excitement by the optimistic > husband. > > If he attempts to kiss her on the lips she shuld turn her head slightly so > that the kiss falls harmlessly on her cheek instead. If he attempts to kiss > her anyplace else she should quickly pull the gown back in place, spring > from the bed, and announce that nature calls her to the toilet. This will > generally dampen his desire to kiss in the forbidden territory. > > If the husband attempts to seduce her with lascivious talk, the wise wife > will suddenly remember some trivial nonsexual question to ask him. Once > he answers she should keep the conversation going, no matter how frivolous > it may seem at the time. > > Eventually, the husband will learn that if he insists on having sexual > contact, he must get on with it without amorous embellishment. The wise > wife will allow him to pull the gown up no farther than the waist, and only > permit him to open the front of his pajamas to thus make connection. > > She will be absolutely silent or babble about her housework while he is > huffing and puffing away. Above all, she will lie perfectly still and > never under any circumstances grunt or groan while the act is in progress. > > As soon as the husband has completed the act the wise wife will start nagging > him about various minor tasks she wishes him to perform on the 'morrow. Many > men obtain a major portion of their sexual satisfaction from the peaceful > exhaustion immediately after the act is over. Thus the wife must insure > that there is no peace in this period from him to enjoy. Otherwise, he > might be encouraged to soon try for more. > > One heartening factor for which the wife can be grateful is the fact that > the husband's home, school, church and social environment have been working > together all through his life to instill in him a deep sense of guilt in > regardst to his sexual feelings, so that he comes to the marriage couch > apologetically and subdued. The wise wife seizes upon this advantage and > relentlessly pursues her goal first to limit, later to annihilate completely, > her husband's desire for sexual expression. > > ****end of tract**** > > > -- > > If you are an INFJ, then join the INFJ mailing list - ask me for more details. > If you don't know what INFJ means, ask me, and I'll send more info (46Kb file). > ============================================================================= > | Jon Noring | noring@netcom.com | "Fanny Hill" and other | > | JKN International | IP : 192.100.81.100 | famous literary works in | > | 1312 Carlton Place | Phone : (510) 294-8153 | Windows 3.1 Help format | > | Livermore, CA 94550 | V-Mail: (510) 417-4101 | are available! Ask me! | > ============================================================================= > Read alt.psychology.personality! That's where the action is. > > > > From flesh Thu Jan 6 01:48:11 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA05250; Thu, 6 Jan 94 01:48:06 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401060948.AA05250@wps.com> Subject: Butt-Head (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 01:48:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: cs000rrs@selway, zorca@well.sf.ca.us, tjames@netcom.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1043 Forwarded message: From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Thu Jan 6 01:16:39 1994 Message-Id: <9401060903.AA17105@toad.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 03:10:46 -0600 To: cypherpunks@toad.com From: nobody@rosebud.ee.uh.edu Subject: Butt-Head Remailed-By: remailer03 L.A. Times Jan. 3, 1994 p. D1 THAT'S WHAT HE GETS FOR COMPLAINING SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer Inc., after receiving a complaint from famed scientist Carl Sagan, has changed the internal code name for an upcoming model to "Butt-Head Astronomer" from "Carl Sagan," the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Sagan asked the company to stop using his name after an article about the new computer appeared in MacWeek magazine, the newspaper said. The Computer is one of three Apple models that will use the PowerPC microprocessor, which was developed by an alliance of Apple, Motorola Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. For those of tender sensibilities, Butt-Head Astronomer will be known as BHA for short. -Bloomberg Business News From tomj Thu Jan 6 12:00:21 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA06896; Thu, 6 Jan 94 12:00:09 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9401062000.AA06896@wps.com> Subject: Butt-Head (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 12:00:08 -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: 900 From: flesh (Flesh) From: nobody@rosebud.ee.uh.edu L.A. Times Jan. 3, 1994 p. D1 THAT'S WHAT HE GETS FOR COMPLAINING SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer Inc., after receiving a complaint from famed scientist Carl Sagan, has changed the internal code name for an upcoming model to "Butt-Head Astronomer" from "Carl Sagan," the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Sagan asked the company to stop using his name after an article about the new computer appeared in MacWeek magazine, the newspaper said. The Computer is one of three Apple models that will use the PowerPC microprocessor, which was developed by an alliance of Apple, Motorola Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. For those of tender sensibilities, Butt-Head Astronomer will be known as BHA for short. -Bloomberg Business News -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Fri Jan 7 19:46:52 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA14044; Fri, 7 Jan 94 19:46:48 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9401080346.AA14044@wps.com> Subject: Jacked In 93/Year in Review (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 19:46:48 -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: 5898 I know it's of local usefulness only... just FYI... Forwarded message: From verve@well.sf.ca.us Thu Jan 6 13:38:58 1994 From: "Eric S. Theise" Message-Id: <199401062120.NAA26397@well.sf.ca.us> Subject: Jacked In 93/Year in Review To: jacked-in@well.sf.ca.us Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 13:20:05 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 5406 THE JACKED-IN YEAR IN REVIEW Welcome to 1994! You're receiving this message via the Jacked-In mailing list, which I run as part of the Jacked In/Cyberspace Literacy series at Modern Times Bookstore in San Francisco. You're on this list because you asked to be, or because you spoke or are scheduled to speak at one of these events. If you'd like to be taken off the list, or if you know someone who'd like to be on the list, jacked-in-request@well.sf.ca.us is the address to write to. This message contains one piece of sad news, announcements of the first two events of 1994, and a recap of 1993. The sad news is that Brendan Kehoe, author of ZEN AND THE ART OF THE INTERNET, and a Cygnus Support engineer, was critically injured in an automobile accident in Pennsylvania on Friday, 31 December, 1993. Cygnus has created an online way of finding out how Brendan is doing -- finger brendan-news@cygnus.com -- and the latest news is very good. He's talking, recognizing friends and family, and eating solid food. He was moved out of intensive care on Monday of this week. Your prayers, thoughts, and beams are appreciated, and you can send cards and other items to Brendan c/o: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Silberstein Pavilion, Room 920 3400 Spruce St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 With today's glut of Internet how-tos, it's easy to forget that just a few short years ago, there was almost nothing available to help people use the Internet. Brendan's online version of Zen was a lifesaver when it appeared, and the book version was one of the first to market. Brendan himself appeared at the end of one of my Internet crash courses (the one where Sharon Fisher spoke), modestly introducing himself, and expressing enthusaism for what we were doing with the series. Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Brendan! We'll have two authors coming in during January. Sunday, January 16 * 7:30 p.m. Jacking In/A Series on Cyberspace Literacy presents: JOHN S. QUARTERMAN, The Internet Connection: System Connectivity and Configuration Whether it's installing connections, showing people why they'd want to be connected, or documenting the growth of the networks, John Quarterman (The Internet Connection, The Matrix, Matrix News, Matrix Maps Quarterly) has his fingers on the pulse of the net like no one else. John will talk about the growth and commercialization of the Internet, with a special focus on soho (small office, home office) networking. $3-$5 sliding scale. Sunday, January 30 * 7:30 p.m. Jacking In/A Series on Cyberspace Literacy presents: LINDA JACOBSON, Garage Virtual Reality Linda Jacobson (CyberArts: Exploring Art and Technology) returns to Modern Times in celebration of her new book, Garage Virtual Reality (Sams 1993). Linda brings with her a multimedia presentation on low cost, low tech entries to cyberspace for the artist, the tinkerer, the visionary. $3-$5 sliding scale. Finally, for posterity's sake, I wanted to post a recap of all the events we did in 1993. Going down the list, it's amazing to see the amount of territory we covered. And I'm pleased to say that BAIL -- Bay Area Internet Literacy -- had two successful Internet workshops at the end of 1993 and will continue to offer Internet and telecom training on a monthly basis throughout the area. The next BAIL event will be at Climate Theater on Sunday, January 23rd, from 1 to 5. Press relase on that to follow. Thanks again to everyone who's supported the Jacked In series thus far; speakers, audience, and others who've come through in a pinch to supply equipment and brainpower. Best wishes to all of you for a prosperous 1994! --Eric Theise/verve@well.sf.ca.us 1993 Jacked In events included: Feb 7: NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: A CRASH COURSE (Theise) Mar 7: LAW AND DISORDER ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER (Bruce Sterling, John Draper, Mitch Ratcliffe, Mike Godwin) Apr 21: WRITING DOWN THE NETS: CREATIVE LIT IN CYBERSPACE (Will Kreth, Tom Maddox, Jerod Pore, Patrizia DiLucchio, Bill Knutson) May 19: ONLINE COMMUNITIES AROUND THE BAY: THE INNS AND THEIR KEEPERS (Gail Ann Williams, Alex Liberman, Wayne Gregori, John Coate) Jun 16: USING USENET: an alt talk on sci and biz, soc and rec (Theise) Jun 27: CYBERARTS: EXPLORING ART AND TECHNOLOGY (Mark Petrakis, Mark Trayle, Linda Jacobson) Jul 11: MASTERING YOUR MESSAGING: AN E-MAIL TUTORIAL (Theise) Aug 8: ACTIVISM ONLINE: Global Communications at PeaceNet, EcoNet, LaborNet, and ConflictNet (Howard Frederick, Michael Stein) Sep 19: NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: A CRASH COURSE (Theise, Sharon Fisher) Sep 21: THE METAPHYSICS OF VIRTUAL REALITY (Michael Heim) Oct 17: USING USENET: A Crash Course (Theise) Oct 22: THE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier" (Howard Rheingold) Nov 14: OFF-CENTER ELECTRIC (WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT THOUGHTS) (Richard Kadrey, Jon Lebkowsky, Paco Xander Nathan, Jerod Pore) Nov 21: WOMEN ONLINE: TO LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY IN CYBERSPACE (Susan Adrian, Hoai-An Truong, Judi Clark, Reva Basch) Dec 12: THE ONLINE USER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA: BULLETIN BOARDS AND BEYOND (Bernard Aboba) -- Eric S. Theise P.O. Box 460177, San Francisco, CA 94146.0177 Internet Domain Editor, Millennium Whole Earth Catalog The WELL: internet, matrix, & news conference host + gophermeister -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Sat Jan 8 13:04:37 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA16683; Sat, 8 Jan 94 13:04:24 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9401082104.AA16683@wps.com> Subject: it *is* a conspiracy! To: shit-list Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 13:04:24 -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: 685 >From one of Eric Thiese's announcements of events at Modern Times bookstore here in SF. Which you've probavbly seen before on this list. John will talk about the growth and commercialization of the Internet, with a special focus on soho (small office, home office) networking. ^^^^ Egads! Circular references, or what! Is this a cooincidence? Consider the meaning/value "soho" has taken on in the last 20 years, and this new? acronymic usage... coincidence? No. It's just too tightly fitted to the whole upscaley imagery thing. Ha ha, very punny. Shit like this scares me. -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From flesh Sun Jan 9 11:36:14 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA22044; Sun, 9 Jan 94 11:36:06 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401091936.AA22044@wps.com> Subject: But will he wear his clown makeup on that fateful day? To: shit-list Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 11:36:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: tjames@netcom.com, cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu, zorca@aol.com, mykel (Mykel Board), zorca@well.sf.ca.us, horus@netcom.com, bat@cyberden.sf.ca.us, tom.tomorrow@sfnet.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 584 It was bound to happen.... John Wayne Gacy's death date has now been set for may 10th of this year. In the case that you don't know who Gacy is, he's everyones favorite serial killer clown (for further information, check out your local library). The chances of clemency and/or a stay are....well, you'll probably see a pack of tap dancing polar bears on Market street first. So with this in mind, on May 10th a "Farwell Johnny" party will be held. The exact place is still unknown, as to that I juts found out about the date, but do please make plans on attending anyways. From flesh Sun Jan 9 11:58:00 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA22135; Sun, 9 Jan 94 11:57:56 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401091957.AA22135@wps.com> Subject: punk, and geek To: shit-list Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 11:57:56 -0800 (PST) Cc: tjames@netcom.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 494 Don't ask me how, but I was walking down market street, and for some reason I began trying to think up punk song with obscure (or obvious) computer references in them. I talked to Tom about this.... This is what we've come up with. Feel free to add to it. Black Flag- SLIP it in Buzzcocks- Operations Manual Gary Neuman- Me, I disconnect from you Throbbing Gristle- IBM Husker Du- Powerline That's it so far. And please.... The Clash's That's No Way To Spend Your Youth, doesn't count. From flesh Sun Jan 9 12:33:54 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA22303; Sun, 9 Jan 94 12:33:51 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401092033.AA22303@wps.com> Subject: Moral Decay To: shit-list Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 12:33:50 -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: 2230 At the moment, in the electronic universe section of the gopher (this may change on a whim, just because.) you'll find a option that's called Moral Decay MUD. Firstly, MUD stands for Multi User Dungen. In short, it's a computerized D&D game. Woopie. There's other one simular. to MUDs. Mushes, mucks, etc etc. They all have two things in common. All are incredibly uncreative. All are incredibly boring, and all are time wasters, except one. Moral decay stands heads and shoulders above other MUDs. There are several things that make it different than most. Firstly, it's the only all-player run game that I know of. Secondly, players set up businesses and actually have a micro economy happening. Thirdly, it's extremly bizzare. Extremely, is actually an undersatatment. Let me show you. On most Muds, (most are either star trek or D&D based. Yawn.) you see and do the following.... >you see a Romulan aim phaser at Romulan >OK set phaser on kill >OK kill romulan >Romulan is dead Woooopie. On Moral decay, you can do the following... Kill Bambi Kill Thumper Kill prostitutes Kill roaches, rats, and crickets Kill happy fuckin' elves Kill other players Kill yourself fondle other players fondle yourself shout scream dance When you get damage (your arm, leg, whatever) you can either sit around like a total moron, while you heal, or drink large ammount of alcohol to heal yourself up (BTW, in order to make the alcohol, players must dump the dead corpses they have into a processor that turns the rotting flesh into alcohol). There are a lot of other things that make this game really interesting as well. However, you should check it out for yourself. What you want to do, is logon as 'guest' this will give you access to the demonstration charicter. After you've done this, go as far south as you can, and then go over two spots west. This will put you in the Comfortably Numbs bar. Feel free to ask people questions (to do this simple type say (whatever you want to say), and most of the regulars will be glad to answer any questions you may have (if they don't kill you). Be warned though. This game is an incredible time waster, as well as being incredibly addicting. Try it out anyways. From flesh Sun Jan 9 13:37:12 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA22789; Sun, 9 Jan 94 13:37:09 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401092137.AA22789@wps.com> Subject: PGP To: shit-list Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 13:37:08 -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: 1286 Yeah yeah yeah. I know. Lots of messages from me. Sorry if I'm filling your mailboxes with stuff. I'm catching up on stuff, and this is one of them. This is a short intro to those on the list who aren't framiliar with PGP. PGP is an encryption program that makes files unreadable by anyone other than the people that it's intended for, and/or yourself. you can find out more about it, by either accessing the pgp option in the gopher here on wps.com (select the about-pgp, or why-you-need-pgp selections), or you can simply type pgp at the prompt, or you can ask questions via this list. In any case, it's not that bad of an idea to generate yourself up a key. You never know when you'll need it. ;) Here's mine. you can also get my key by fingering me as well. w00f! -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.3a mQCNAiypnwMAAAEEANplFJ8b9cNE9z1KSouU9T6gFy8357m32eVckQfKhvipoKby aqwxbV9nR64jXO1jkd9w+v5rwiKg4j00ZnAjXeNgxjOFWfyOQxPdLFAysJLSU3CK NXRJpnzghnVea7KnDAmBRdh8felRIOP3XPYiA8dm4h4OHrRSWE/v5rOdEbN1AAUR tAVmbGVzaIkAlQIFECypnyhP7+aznRGzdQEBkEsEAIFZuwQZzFc2hX87M0gUba7l gcyjIM1KG9KEW9jTMVkdPuWF3S6D1aHQMrQGsHPjdiUT+HVw0hHEJy+r1+iebRso egswKRqrBCbku3tpLpyuRIGJnYiq8A2qLtcM1Rl3e81GaBTFllWbhsP77IS+DUMS gUV7mn0DfsE7dengColG =Zzdl -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- From flesh Sun Jan 9 14:46:17 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA23621; Sun, 9 Jan 94 14:46:08 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401092246.AA23621@wps.com> Subject: Re: Humor! (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 14:46:08 -0800 (PST) Cc: zorca@well.sf.ca.us X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 571 > >sorry, folks. just couldn`t pass up the chance tp pass this along. > > > >- ---- > > > >From: strnlght@netcom.com > >Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk > >Subject: (none) > >Date: 4 Jan 94 02:41:56 GMT > > > > > > __________________ > > ---- | | |-\_ > >----- | | | |_\ \ O / <---Me > > ---- | |_| | | > > ^^oo^^^^^^^^^oo^^^ o^^o^ _/ \_ > >-- > >David Sternlight When the mouse laughs at the cat, > > there is a hole nearby.--Nigerian Proverb > > > From flesh Sun Jan 9 14:51:11 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA23655; Sun, 9 Jan 94 14:51:04 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401092251.AA23655@wps.com> Subject: jesus fucking CHRIST!!!! To: shit-list Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 14:51:03 -0800 (PST) Cc: zorca@well.sf.ca.us, tjames@netcom.com, cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 95727 > BS'D > REFUTING MISSIONARIES: > > by Hayyim ben Yehoshua > > PART 1: THE MYTH OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS > > Much concern has been expressed in the Jewish media > regarding the activity of "Jews for Jesus" and other missionary > organizations who go out of their way to convert Jews to > Christianity. Unfortunately, many Jews are ill-equipped to deal > with Christian missionaries and their arguments. Hopefully this > article will contribute to remedying this situation. > > When countering Christian missionaries it is important > to base one's arguments on correct facts. Arguments based on > incorrect facts can easily backfire and end up strengthening the > arguments of the missionaries. > > It is rather unfortunate that many well meaning Jewish > Studies teachers have unwittingly aided missionaries by teaching > Jewish pupils incorrect information about the origins of > Christianity. I can recall being taught the following story > about Jesus at the Jewish day school which I attended: > > "Jesus was a famous first century rabbi whose > Hebrew name was Rabbi Yehoshua. His father was a carpenter > named Joseph and his mother's name was Mary. Mary became > pregnant before she married Joseph. Jesus was born in a > stable in Bethlehem during a Roman census. Jesus grew up > in Nazareth and became a learned rabbi. He travelled all > over Israel preaching that people should love one another. > Some people thought that he was the Messiah and he did not > deny this which made the other rabbis very angry. He > caused so much controversy that the Roman governor Pontius > Pilate had him crucified. He was buried in a tomb and > later his body was found to be missing since it had > probably been stolen by his disciples." > > A few years after being taught this seemingly innocent > story, I became interested in the origins of Christianity and > decided to do some further reading on the "famous Rabbi > Yehoshua." Much to my dismay, I discovered that there was no > historical evidence of this Rabbi Yehoshua. The claim that > Jesus was a rabbi named Yehoshua and the claim that his body was > probably stolen both turned out to be pure conjecture. The rest > of the story was nothing more than a watered down version of the > story which Christians believe as part of the Christian religion > but which is not supported by any legitimate historical source. > There was absolutely no historical evidence that Jesus, Joseph > or Mary ever existed, let alone that Joseph was a carpenter or > that Jesus was born in Bethlehem and lived in Nazareth. > > Despite the lack of evidence for Jesus's existence many > Jews have made the tragic mistake of assuming that the New > Testament story is largely correct and have tried to refute > Christianity by attempting to rationalize the various miracles > that allegedly occured during Jesus's life and after his death. > Numerous books have been written which take this approach to > Christianity. This approach however is hopelessly flawed and is > in fact dangerous since it encourages belief in the New > Testament. > > When the Israelites were confronted with the worship of > Baal they did not blindly accept the ancient West Semitic myths > as history. When the Maccabees were confronted with Greek > religion they did not blindly accept Greek mythology as history. > Why do so many modern Jews blindly accept Christian mythology? > The answer to this question seems to be that many Christians do > not know themselves where the distinction between established > history and Christian belief lies and they have passed their > confusion on to the Jewish community. Browsing through the > religion section of a local bookshop, I recently came across a > book which claimed to be an objective biography of Jesus. It > turned out to be nothing more than a summary of the usual New > Testament story. It even included claims that Jesus's miracles > had been witnessed but that rational explanations for them might > exist. Many history books written by Christians take a similar > approach. Some Christian authors will suggest that perhaps the > miracles are not completely historical but they nevertheless > follow the general New Testament story. The idea that there was > a real historical Jesus has thus become entrenched in Christian > society and Jews living in the Christian world have come to > blindly accept this belief because they have never seen it > seriously challenged. > > Despite the widespread belief in Jesus the fact remains > that there is no historical Jesus. In order to understand what > is meant by an "historical Jesus," consider King Midas in Greek > mythology. The story that King Midas turned everything he > touched into gold is clearly nonsense, yet despite this we know > that there was a real King Midas. Archaeologists have excavated > his tomb and found his skeletal remains. The Greeks who told > the story of Midas and his golden touch clearly intended people > to identify him with the real Midas. So although the story of > the golden touch is fictional, the story is about a person whose > existence is known as a fact - the "historical Midas." In the > case of Jesus, their is however, no single person whose > existence is known as a fact and who is also intended to be the > subject of the Jesus stories, i.e. there is no historical > Jesus. > > When confronted by a Christian missionary, one should > immediately point out that *the very existence of Jesus has not > been proven*. When missionaries argue they usually appeal to > emotions rather than to reason and they will attempt to make you > feel embarrassed about denying the historicity of Jesus. The > usual response is something like _"Isn't denying the existence > of Jesus just as silly as denying the existence of Julius Caesar > or Queen Elizabeth?"_. A popular variation of this response > used especially against Jews is _"Isn't denying the existence of > Jesus like denying the Holocaust?"_ One should then point out > that there are ample historical sources confirming the existence > of Julius Caesar, Queen Elizabeth or whoever else is named, > while there is no corresponding evidence for Jesus. > > To be perfectly thorough you should take time to do some > research on the historical personalities mentioned by the > missionaries and present hard evidence of their existence. At > the same time you should challenge the missionaries to provide > similar evidence of Jesus's existence. You should point out > that although the existence of Julius Caesar or Queen Elizabeth > etc, is accepted worldwide, the same is not true of Jesus. In > the Far East where the major religions are Buddhism, Shintoism, > Taoism and Confucism, Jesus is considered to be just another > character in Western religious mythology, on a par with Thor, > Zeus and Osiris. Most Hindus do not believe in Jesus, but those > who do consider him to be one of the many avatars of the Hindu > god Vishnu. Muslims certainly believe in Jesus but they reject > the New Testament story and consider him to be a prophet who > announced the coming of Muhammed. They explicitly deny that he > was ever crucified. > > To sum up, there is no story of Jesus which is uniformly > accepted worldwide. It is this fact which puts Jesus on a > different level to established historical personalities. If the > missionaries use the "Holocaust reply," you should point out > that the Holocaust is well-documented and that there are > numerous eyewitness reports. It should be pointed out that most > of the people who deny the Holocaust have turned out to be > antisemitic hate-mongers with fraudulent credentials. On the > other hand, millions of honest people in Asia, who make up the > majority of the world's population, have failed to be convinced > by the Christian story of Jesus since there is no compelling > evidence for its authenticity. The missionaries will insist > that the story of Jesus is a well-established fact and will > argue that there is "plenty of evidence supporting it"_. One > should then insist on seeing this evidence and refuse to listen > any further until they produce it. > > If Jesus was not an historical person, where did the > whole New Testament story come from in the first place? The > Hebrew name for Christians has always been _Notzrim_. This name > is derived from the Hebrew word _neitzer_ which means a shoot or > sprout - an obvious Messianic symbol. There were already people > called Notzrim at the time of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Perachyah (c. > 100 B.C.E.). Although modern Christians claim that Christianity > only started in the first century C.E., it is clear that the > first century Christians in Israel considered themselves to be a > continuation of the Notzri movement which had been in existence > for about 150 years. One of the the most notorious Notzrim was > Yeishu ben Pandeira, also known as Yeishu ha-Notzri. Talmudic > scholars have always maintained that the story of Jesus began > with Yeishu. The Hebrew name for Jesus has always been Yeishu > and the Hebrew for "Jesus the Nazarene" has always been "Yeishu > ha-Notzri." (The name Yeishu is a shortened form of the name > Yeishua, not Yehoshua.) It is important to note that Yeishu > ha-Notzri is not an historical Jesus since modern Christianity > denies any connection between Jesus and Yeishu and moreover, > parts of the Jesus myth are based on other historical people > besides Yeishu. > > We know very little about Yeishu ha-Notzri. All modern > works that mention him are based on information taken from the > Tosefta and the Baraitas - writings made at the same time as the > Mishna but not contained in it. Because the historical > information concerning Yeishu is so damaging to Christianity, > most Christian authors (and even some Jewish ones) have tried to > discredit this information and have invented many ingenious > arguments to explain it away. Many of their arguments are based > on misunderstandings and misquotations of the Baraitas and in > order to get an accurate picture of Yeishu one should ignore > Christian authors and examine the Baraitas directly. > > The skimpy information contained in the Baraitas is as > follows: Rabbi Yehoshua ben Perachyah once repelled Yeishu with > both hands. People believed that Yeishu was a sorcerer and they > considered him to be a person who had led the Jews astray. As a > result of charges brought against him (the details of which are > not known, but which probably involved high treason) Yeishu was > stoned and his body hung up on the eve of Passover. Before this > he was paraded around for forty days with a herald going in > front of him announcing that he would be stoned and calling for > people to come forward to plead for him. Nothing was brought > forward in his favour however. Yeishu had five disciples: > Mattai, Naqai, Neitzer, Buni, and Todah. > > In the Tosefta and the Baraitas, Yeishu's father is > named Pandeira or Panteiri. These are Hebrew-Aramaic forms of a > Greek name. In Hebrew the third consonant of the name is > written either with a dalet or a tet. Comparison with other > Greek words transliterated into Hebrew shows that the original > Greek must have had a delta as its third consonant and so the > only possibilty for the father's Greek name is Panderos. Since > Greek names were common among Jews during Hashmonean times it is > not necessary to assume that he was Greek, as some authors have > done. > > The connection between Yeishu and Jesus is corroborated > by the the fact that Mattai and Todah, the names of two of > Yeishu's disciples, are the original Hebrew forms of Matthew and > Thaddaeus, the names of two of Jesus's disciples in Christian > mythology. > > The early Christians were also aware of the name "ben > Pandeira" for Jesus. The pagan philosopher Celsus, who was > famous for his arguments against Christianity, claimed in 178 > C.E. that he had heard from a Jew that Jesus's mother, Mary, > had been divorced by her husband, a carpenter, after it had been > proved that she was an adultress. She wandered about in shame > and bore Jesus in secret. His real father was a soldier named > Pantheras. According to the Christian writer Epiphanius (c. > 320 - 403 C.E.), the Christian apologist Origen (c.185 - 254 > C.E.) had claimed that "Panther" was the nickname for Jacob the > father of Joseph, the stepfather of Jesus. It should be noted > that Origen's claim is not based on any historical information. > It is purely a conjecture aimed at explaining away the Pantheras > story of Celsus. That story is also not historical. The claim > that the name of Jesus's mother was Mary and the claim that her > husband was a carpenter is taken directly from Christian belief. > The claim that Jesus's real father was named Pantheras is based > on an incorrect attempt at reconstructing the original form of > Pandeira. This incorrect reconstruction was probably influenced > by the fact that the name Pantheras was found among Roman > soldiers. > > Why did people believe that Jesus's mother was named > Mary and her husband named Joseph? Why did non-Christians accuse > Mary of being an adultress while Christians believed she was a > virgin? To answer these questions one must examine some of the > legends surrounding Yeishu. We cannot hope to obtain the > absolute truth concerning the origins of the Jesus myth but we > can show that reasonable alternatives exist to blindly accepting > the New Testament. > > The name Joseph for Jesus's stepfather is easy to > explain. The Notzri movement was particulary popular with the > Samaritan Jews. While the Pharisees were waiting for a Messiah > who would be a descendant of David, the Samaritans wanted a > Messiah who would restore the northern kingdom of Israel. The > Samaritans emphasized their partial descent from the tribes of > Ephraim and Manasseh, who were descended from the Joseph of the > Torah. The Samaritans considered themselves to be "Bnei Yoseph" > i.e. "sons of Joseph," and since they believed that Jesus had > been their Messiah, they would have assumed that he was a "son > of Joseph." The Greek speaking population, who had little > knowledge of Hebrew and true Jewish traditions could have easily > misunderstood this term and assumed that Joseph was the actual > name of Jesus's father. This conjecture is corroborated by the > fact that according to the _Gospel of Matthew_, Joseph's father > is named Jacob, just like the Torah Joseph. Later, other > Christians, who followed the idea that the Messiah was to be > descended from David, tried to trace Joseph back to David. They > came up with two contradictory genealogies for him, one recorded > in _Matthew _ and the other in _Luke_. When the idea that Mary > was a virgin developed, the mythical Joseph was relegated to the > position of simply being her husband and the stepfather of > Jesus. > > To understand where the Mary story came from we have to > turn to another historical character who contributed to the > Jesus myth, namely ben Stada. All the information we have on > ben Stada again comes from the Tosefta and the Baraitas. There > is even less information about him than about Yeishu: Some > people believed that he had brought spells out of Egypt in a cut > in his flesh, others thought that he was a madman. He was a > beguiler and was caught by the method of concealed witnesses. > He was stoned in Lod. > > In the Tosefta, ben Stada is called ben Sotera or ben > Sitera. Sotera seems to be the Hebrew-Aramaic form of the Greek > name Soteros. The forms "Sitera" and "Stada" seem have arisen > as misreadings and spelling mistakes (yod replacing vav and > dalet replacing reish). > > Since there was so little information concerning ben > Stada, many conjectures arose as to who he was. It is known > from the Gemara that he was confused with Yeishu. This probably > resulted from the fact that both were executed for treasonous > teachings and were associated with sorcery. People who confused > ben Stada with Yeishu had to explain why he was also called ben > Pandeira. Since the name "Stada" resembles the Aramaic > expression "stat da," meaning "she went astray" it was thought > that "Stada" referred to the mother of Yeishu and that she was > an adultress. Consequently, people began to think that Yeishu > was the illegitimate son of Pandeira. These ideas are in fact > mentioned in the Gemara and are probably much older. Since ben > Stada lived in Roman times and the name Pandeira resembled the > name Pantheras found among Roman soldiers, it was assumed that > Pandeira had been a Roman soldier stationed in Israel. This > certainly explains the story mentioned by Celsus. > > The Tosefta mentions a famous case of a woman named > Miriam bat Bilgah marrying a Roman soldier. The idea that > Yeishu had been born to a Jewish woman who had had an affair > with a Roman soldier probably resulted in Yeishu's mother being > confused with this Miriam. The name "Miriam" is of course the > original form of the name "Mary." It is in fact known from the > Gemara that some of the people who confused Yeishu with ben > Stada believed that Yeishu's mother was "Miriam the women's > hairdresser." > > The story that Mary (Miriam) the mother of Jesus was an > adultress was certainly not acceptable to the early Christians. > The virgin birth story was probably invented to clear Mary's > name. The early Christians did not suck this story out of their > thumbs. Virgin birth stories were farely common in pagan myths. > The following mythological characters were all believed to be > have been born to divinely impregnated virgins: Romulus and > Remus, Perseus, Zoroaster, Mithras, Osiris-Aion, Agdistis, > Attis, Tammuz, Adonis, Korybas, Dionysus. The pagan belief in > unions between gods and women, regardless of whether they were > virgins or not, is even more common. Many characters in pagan > mythology were believed to be sons of divine fathers and human > females. The Christian belief that Jesus was the son of G-d > born to a virgin, is typical of Greco-Roman superstition. The > Jewish philosopher, Philo of Alexandria (c. 30 B.C.E - 45 C.E.), > warned against the widespread superstitious belief in unions > between male gods and human females which returned women to a > state of virginity. > > The god Tammuz, worshipped by pagans in northern Israel, > was said to have been born to the virgin Myrrha. The name > "Myrrha" superficially resembles "Mary/Miriam" and it is > possible that this particular virgin birth story influenced the > Mary story more than the others. Like Jesus, Tammuz was always > called Adon, meaning "Lord." (The character Adonis in Greek > mythology is based on Tammuz.) As we will see later, the > connection between Jesus and Tammuz goes much further than this. > > The idea that Mary had been an adultress never > completely disappeared in Christian mythology. Instead, the > character of Mary was split into two: Mary the mother of Jesus, > believed to be a virgin, and Mary Magdalene, believed to be a > woman of ill repute. The idea that the character of Mary > Magdalene is also derived from Miriam the mythical mother of > Yeishu, is corroborated by the fact that the strange name > "Magdalene" clearly resembles the Aramaic term "mgadla nshaya" > meaning "womens' hairdresser." As mentioned before, there was a > belief that Yeishu's mother was "Miriam the women's > hairdresser." Because the Christians did not know what the name > "Magdalene" meant, they later conjectured that it meant that she > had come from a place called Magdala on the west of Lake > Kinneret. The idea of the two Marys fitted in well with the > pagan way of thinking. The image of Jesus being followed by the > two Marys is strongly reminiscent of Dionysus being followed by > Demeter and Persephone. > > The Gemara contains an interesting legend concerning > Yeishu which attempts to elucidate the Beraita which says that > Rabbi Yehoshua ben Perachyah repelled Yeishu with both hands. > The legend claims that when the Hashmonean king Yannai was > killing the Pharisees, Rabbi Yehoshua and Yeishu fled to Egypt. > When returning they came upon an inn. The Aramaic word > "aksanya" means both "inn" or "innkeeper." Rabbi Yehoshua > remarked how beautiful the "aksanya" was (meaning the inn). > Yeishu (meaning the innkeeper) replied that her eyes were too > narrow. Rabbi Yehoshua was very angry with Yeishu and > excommunicated him. Yeishu asked many times for forgiveness > but Rabbi Yehoshua would not forgive him. Once when Rabbi > Yehoshua was reciting the Shema, Yeishu came up to him. He made > a sign to him that he should wait. Yeishu misunderstood and > thought that he was being rejected again. He mocked Rabbi > Yehoshua by setting up a brick and worshipping it. Rabbi > Yehoshua told him to repent but he refused to, saying that he > had learned from him that anyone who sins and causes many to > sin, is not given the opportunity to repent. > > The above story, up to the events at the inn, closely > resembles another legend in which the protagonist is not Rabbi > Yehoshua but his disciple Yehuda ben Tabbai. In this legend, > Yeishu is not named. One may thus question whether Yeishu > really went to Egypt or not. It is possible that Yeishu was > confused with some other disciple of either Rabbi Yehoshua or > Rabbi Yehuda. The confusion might have resulted from the fact > that Yeishu was confused with ben Stada who had returned from > Egypt. On the other hand, Yeishu might have really fled to Egypt > and returned, and this in turn could have contributed to the > confusion between Yeishu and ben Stada. Whatever the case, the > belief that Yeishu fled to Egypt to escape being killed by a > cruel king, appears to be the origin of the Christian belief > that Jesus and his family fled to Egypt to escape King Herod. > > Since the early Christians believed that Jesus had lived > in Roman times it is natural that they would have confused the > evil king who wanted to kill Jesus with Herod, since there were > no other suitable evil kings during the Roman period. Yeishu > was an adult at the time that the rabbis fled from Yannai; why > did the Christians believe that Jesus and his family had fled to > Egypt when Jesus was an infant? Why did the Christians believe > that Herod had ordered all baby boys born in Bethlehem to be > killed, when there is no historical evidence of this? To answer > these questions we again have to look at pagan mythology. > > The theme of a divine or semi-divine child who is feared > by an evil king is very common in pagan mythology. The usual > story is that the evil king receives a prophecy that a certain > child will be born who will usurp the throne. In some stories > the child is born to a virgin and usually he is son of a god. > The mother of the child tries to hide him. The king usually > orders the slaying of all babies who might be the prophecied > king. Examples of myths which follow this plot are the birth > stories of Romulus and Remus, Perseus, Krishna, Zeus, and > Oedipus. Although Torah literalists will not like to admit it, > the story of Moses's birth also resembles these myths (some of > which claim that the mother put the child in a basket and placed > him in a river). There were probably several such stories > circulating in the Levant which have been lost. The Christian > myth of the slaughter of the innocents by Herod is simply a > Christain version of this theme. The plot was so well known > that one Midrashic scholar could not resist using it for an > apocryphal account of Abraham's birth. > > The early Christians believed that the Messiah was to be > born in Bethlehem. This belief is based on a misunderstanding > of Micah _ 5.2 which simply names Bethlehem as the town where > the Davidic lineage began. Since the early Christians believed > that Jesus was the Messiah, they automatically believed that he > was born in Bethlehem. But why did the Christians believe that > he lived in Nazareth? The answer is quite simple. The early > Greek speaking Christians did not know what the word "Nazarene" > meant. The earliest Greek form of this word is "Nazoraios," > which is derived from "Natzoriya," the Aramaic equivalent of the > Hebrew "Notzri." (Recall that "Yeishu ha-Notzri" is the > original Hebrew for "Jesus the Nazarene.") The early Christians > conjectured that "Nazarene" meant a person from Nazareth and so > it was assumed that Jesus lived in Nazareth. Even today, > Christians blithely confuse the Hebrew words "Notzri" (_ > Nazarene_, _Christian_), "Natzrati" _Nazarethite_) and "nazir" > (_nazarite_), all of which have completely different meanings. > > The information in the Talmud (which contains the > Baraitas and the Gemara), concerning Yeishu and ben Stada, is so > damaging to Christianity that Christians have always taken > drastic measures against it. When the Christians first > discovered the information they immediately tried to wipe it out > by censoring the Talmud. The Basle edition of the Talmud (c. > 1578 - 1580) had all the passages relating to Yeishu and ben > Stada deleted by the Christians. Even today, editions of the > Talmud used by Christian scholars lack these passages! > > During the first few decades of this century, fierce > academic battles raged between atheist and Christian scholars > over the true origins of Christianity. The Christians were > forced to face up to the Talmudic evidence. They could no > longer ignore it and so they decided to attack it instead. They > claimed that the Talmudic Yeishu was a distortion of the > "historical Jesus." They claimed that the name "Pandeira" was > simply a Hebrew attempt at pronouncing the Greek word for virgin > - "parthenos." Although there is a superficial resemblence > between the words, one should note that in order for "Pandeira" > to be derived from "parthenos," the "n" and "r" have to be > interchanged. However, the Jews did not suffer from any speech > impediment which would cause this to happen! The Christian > response is that possibly the Jews purposefully altered the word > "parthenos" to either the name "Pantheras" (found in Celsus's > story) or to "pantheros" meaning a panther, and "Pandeira" is > derived from the deliberately altered word. This argument also > fails since the third consonent of both the altered and > unaltered "parthenos" is theta. This letter is always > transliterated by the Hebrew letter tav, whose pronunciation > during classical times most closely resembled that of the Greek > letter. However, the name "Pandeira" is never spelled with a > tav but with either a dalet or a tet which show that the > original Greek form had a delta as its third consonant, not a > theta. The Christian argument can also be turned on its head: > maybe the Christians deliberately altered "Pantheras" to > "parthenos" when they invented the virgin birth story. It > should also be noted that the resemblence between "Pantheras" > (or "pantheros") and "parthenos" is actually much less when > written in Greek since in the original Greek spelling their > second vowels are completely different. > > The Christians also did not accept that Mary Magdalene > was connected to Miriam the alleged mother of Yeishu in the > Talmud. They argued that the name "Magdalene" does mean a > person from Magdala and that the Jews evented "Miriam the womens > hairdresser _mgadla nshaya_)" either to mock the Christians, or > out of their own misunderstanding of the name "Magdalene." This > argument is also false. Firstly, it ignores Greek grammar: the > correct Greek for "of Magdala" is "Magdales" and the correct > Greek for a person from Magdala is "Magdalaios." The original > Greek root of "Magdalene" is "Magdalen-" with a conspicuous "n" > showing that the word has nothing to do with Magdala. Secondly, > Magdala only got its name after the Gospels were written. > Before that it was called Magadan or Dalmanutha. (Although > "Magadan" has an "n," it lacks an "l" and so it cannot be the > derivation of "Magdalene.") In fact, the ruins of this area were > renamed Magdala by the Christian community because they believed > that Mary Magdalene had come from there. > > The Christians also claimed that the word "Notzri" means > a person from Nazareth. This is of course false since the > original Hebrew for Nazareth is "Natzrat" and a person from > Nazareth is a "Natzrati." The name "Notzri" lacks the letter > tav from "Natzrat" as so it cannot be derived from it. The > Christians argue that perhaps the Aramaic name for Nazareth was > "Natzarah" or "Natzirah" (like the modern Arabic name) which > explains the missing tav in "Notzri." This is also nonsense > since the Aramaic word for a person from Nazareth would then be > "Natzaratiya" or "Natziratiya" (with a tav since the feminine > ending "-ah" would become "-at-" when the suffix "-iya" is > added), and besides, the Aramaic form would not be used in > Hebrew. The Christians also came up with various other > arguments which can be dismissed since they confuse the Hebrew > words "Notzri" and "nazir" or ignore the fact that "Notzri" is > the earliest form of the word "Nazarene." > > To sum up, all the Christian arguments were based on > impossible phonetic changes and grammatical forms, and were > consequently dismissed. Moreover, although the legends in the > Gemara cannot be taken as fact, the evidence in the Baraitas and > Tosefta concerning Yeishu can be traced back directly to > Yehoshua ben Perachyah, Shimon ben Shetach and Yehuda ben Tabbai > and their disciples who were contemporaries of Yeishu, while the > evidence in the Baraitas and Tosefta concerning ben Stada can be > traced to Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus and his disciples who were > ben Stada's contempories. Consequently the evidence can be > regarded as historically accurate. Therefore modern Christians > no longer attack the Talmud but instead deny any connection > between Jesus and Yeishu or ben Stada. They dismiss the > similarities as pure coincidence. However, one must still be > aware of the false attacks on the Talmud since many Christian > books still mention them and they can and do resurface from time > to time. > > Many parts of the Jesus story are not based on Yeishu or > ben Stada. Most Christian denominations claim that Jesus was > born on 25 December. Originally the eastern Christains believed > that he was born on 6 January. The Armenian Christians still > follow this early belief while most Christians consider it to be > the date of the visit of the Magi. As pointed out already, > Jesus was probably confused with Tammuz born of the virgin > Myrrha. We know that in Roman times, the gods Tammuz, Aion and > Osiris were identified. Osiris-Aion was said to be born of the > virgin Isis on the 6 January and this explains the earlier date > for Christmas. Isis was sometimes represented as a sacred cow > and her temple as a stable which is probably the origin of the > Christian belief that Jesus was born in a stable. Although some > might find this claim to be farfetched, it is known as a fact > that certain early Christian sects identified Jesus and Osiris > in their writings. The date of 25 December for Christmas was > originally the pagan birthday of the sun god, whose day of the > week is still known as *Sun*_day. The halo of light which is > usually shown surrounding the face of Jesus and Christian > saints, is another concept taken from the sun god. > > The theme of temptation by a devil-like creature was > also found in pagan mythology. In particular the story of > Jesus's temptation by Satan resembles the temptation of Osiris > by the devil-god Set in Egyptian mythology. > > We have already hinted that there was also a connection > between Jesus and the pagan god Dionysus. Like Dionysus, the > infant Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes and placed in a > manger; like Dionysus, Jesus could turn water into wine; like > Dionysus, Jesus rode on an ass and fed a multitude in the > wilderness; like Dionysus, Jesus suffered and was mocked. Some > early Christians claimed that Jesus had in fact been born, not > in a stable, but in a cave - just like Dionysus. > > Where did the story that Jesus was crucified come from? > It appears to have resulted from a number of sources. Firstly > there were three historical characters during the Roman period > who people thought were Messiahs and who were crucified by the > Romans, namely. Yehuda of Galilee (6 C.E.), Theudas (44 C.E.) > and Benjamin the Egyptian (60 C.E.). Since these three people > were all thought to be the Messiah, they were naturally confused > with Yeishu and ben Stada. Yehuda of Galilee had preached in > Galilee and had collected many followers before being crucified > by the Romans. The story of Jesus's ministry in Galilee appears > to be based on the life of Yehuda of Galilee. This story and > the belief that Jesus lived in Nazareth in Galilee, reinforced > each other. The belief that some of Jesus's disciples were > killed in c. 44 C.E. by Agrippa appears to be based the fate of > Theudas's disciples. Since ben Stada had come from Egypt it is > natural that he would have been confused with Benjamin the > Egyptian. They were probably also contempories. Even some > modern authors have suggested that they were the same person, > although this is not possible since the stories of their deaths > are completely different. In the New Testament book of _Acts_, > which uses Josephus's book _ Jewish Antiquities_ (93 - 94 C.E.) > as a reference, it is made clear that the author considered > Jesus, Yehuda of Galilee, Theudas and Benjamin the Egyptian, to > be four different people. However, by that time it was too late > to undo the confusions which had already taken place before the > New Testament was written, and the idea of Jesus's crucifixion > had become an integral part of the myth. > > Secondly, the idea arose that Jesus had been executed on > the eve of Passover. This belief is apparently based on > Yeishu's execution. Passover occurs at the time of the Vernal > Equinox, an event considered important by astrologers during the > Roman Empire. The astrologers thought of this time as the time > of the crossing of two astrological celestial circles, and this > event was symbolized by a cross. Thus there was a belief that > Jesus had died on "the cross." The misunderstanding of this > term by those who were not initiated into the astrological > cults, was another factor contributing to the belief that Jesus > was crucified. In one of the earliest Christian documents (the > _Teaching of the Twelve Apostles_) there is no mention of Jesus > being crucified yet the sign of a cross in the sky is used to > represent Jesus's coming. It should be noted that the centre of > astrological superstition in the Roman Empire was the city of > Tarsus in Asia Minor - the place where the legendary missionary > Paul came from. The idea that a special star had heralded the > birth of Jesus, and that a solar eclipse occured at his death, > is typical of Tarsian astrological superstition. > > The third factor contributing to the crucifixion story > is again pagan mythology. The theme of a divine or semi-divine > being sacrificed against a tree, pole or cross, and then being > resurrected, is very common in pagan mythology. It was found in > the mythologies of all western civilizations stretching from as > far west as Ireland and as far east as India. In particular it > is found in the mythologies of Osiris and Attis, both of whom > were often identified with Tammuz. Osiris landed up with his > arms stretched out on a tree like Jesus on the cross. This tree > was sometimes shown as a pole with outstretched arms - the same > shape as the Christian cross. In the worship of Serapis (a > composite of Osiris and Apis) the cross was a religious symbol. > Indeed, the Christian "Latin cross" symbol seems to be based > directly on the cross symbol of Osiris and Serapis. The Romans > never used this traditional Christian cross for crucifixions, > they used crosses shaped either like an X or a T. The > hieroglyph of a cross on a hill was associated with Osiris. > This heiroglyph stood for the "Good One," in Greek "Chrestos," a > name applied to Osiris and other pagan gods. The confusion of > this name with "Christos (= Messiah, Christ)" strengthened the > confusion between Jesus and the pagan gods. > > At the Vernal Equinox, pagans in northern Israel would > celebrate the death and resurrection of the virgin born > Tammuz-Osiris. In Asia Minor (where the earliest Christian > churches were established) a similar celebration was held for > the virgin born Attis. Attis was shown as dying against a tree, > being buried in a cave and then being resurrected on the third > day. We thus see where the Christian story of Jesus's > resurrection comes from. In the worship of Baal, it was > believed that Baal cheated Mavet (the god of death) at the time > of the Vernal Equinox. He pretended to be dead but later > appeared alive. He accomplished this ruse by giving his only > son as a sacrifice. > > The occurence of Passover at the same time of year as > the pagan "Easter" festivals is not coincidental. Many of the > Pessach customs were designed as Jewish alternatives to pagan > customs. The pagans believed that when their nature god (such > as Tammuz, Osiris or Attis) died and was resurrected, his life > went into the plants used by man as food. The matza made from > the spring harvest was his new body and the wine from the grapes > was his new blood. In Judaism, matza, was not used to represent > the body of a god but the poor man's bread which the Jews ate > before leaving Egypt. The pagans used the paschal sacrifice to > represent the sacrifice of a god or his only son, but Judaism > used it to represent the meal eaten before leaving Egypt. > Instead of telling stories about Baal sacrificing his first born > son to Mavet, the Jews told how _mal'ach ha-mavet_ (the angel of > death) slew the first born sons of the Egyptians. The pagans > ate eggs to represent the resurrection and rebirth of their > nature god, but the egg on the seder plate represents the > rebirth of the Jewish people escaping captivity in Egypt. When > the early Christians noticed the similarities between Pessach > customs and pagan customs, they came full circle and converted > the Pessach customs back to their old pagan interpretations. > The seder became the last supper of Jesus, similar to the last > supper of Osiris commemorated at the Vernal Equinox. The matza > and wine once again became the body and blood of a false god, > this time Jesus. Easter eggs are again eaten to commemorate the > resurrection of a "god" and also the "rebirth" obtained by > accepting his sacrifice on the cross. > > The Last Supper myth is particularly interesting. As > mentioned, the basic idea of last supper occuring at the Vernal > Equinox comes from the story of the last supper of Osiris. In > the Christian story, Jesus is present with twelve apostles. > Where did the story of the twelve apostles come from? It appears > that in its earliest version, the story was understood to be an > allegory. The first time that twelve apostles are mentioned is > in the document known as the _Teaching of the Twelve Apostles_. > This document apparently originated as a sectarian Jewish > document written in the first century C.E., but it was adopted > by Christians who altered it substantially and added Christian > ideas to it. In the earliest versions it is clear that the > "twelve apostles" are the twelve sons of Jacob representing the > twelve tribes of Israel. The Christians later considered the > "twelve apostles" to be allegorical disciples of Jesus. > > In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was betrayed at his last > supper by the evil god Set, whom the Greeks identified with > Typhon. This seems to be the origin of the idea that Jesus's > betrayer was present at his last supper. The idea that this > betrayer was named "Judas" goes back to the time when the twelve > apostles were still understood to be the sons of Jacob. The > idea of Judas (= Judah, Yehuda) betraying Jesus (the "son" of > Joseph) is strongly reminiscent of the story of the Torah Joseph > being betrayed by his brothers with Yehuda as the ringleader. > This allegory would have been particulary appealing to the > Samaritan Notzrim who considered themselves to be sons of Joseph > betrayed by mainstream Jews (represented by Judas/Yehuda). > > However, the story of the twelve apostles lost its > original allegorical interpretation and the Christians began to > think that the "twelve apostles" were twelve real people who > followed Jesus. The Christians attempted to find names for > these twelve apostles. Matthew and Thaddaeus were based on > Mattai and Todah, two of Yeishu's disciples. One or both of the > apostles named Jacobus (James) is possibly based on Jacob of > Kfar Sekanya, an early Christian known to Rabbi Eliezer ben > Hyrcanus, but this is just a guess. As we have seen, the > character of Judas is mostly based on the Judah of the Torah but > there might also be a connection with Yeishu's contemporary, > Yehuda ben Tabbai the disciple of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Perachyah. > As already mentioned, the idea of the betrayer at the last > supper is derived from the mythology of Osiris who was betrayed > by Set-Typhon. Set-Typhon had red hair and this is probably the > origin of the claim that Judas had red hair. This idea has led > to the Christian stereotypical portrayel of Jews as having red > hair, despite the fact that in reality, red hair is far more > common among Aryans than among Jews. > > Judas is often given the nickname "Iscariot." In some > places where English New Testaments have "Iscariot," the Greek > text actually has "apo Kariotou" which means "from Karyot." > Karyot was the name of a town in Israel, probably the modern > site known in Arabic as Karyatein. We thus see that the name > Iscariot is derived from the Hebrew "ish Karyot" meaning "man > from Karyot." This is in fact the accepted modern Christian > understanding of the name. However, in the past, the Christians > misunderstood this name and legends arose that Judas was from > the town of _Sychar_, that he was a member of the extremist > party known as the _Sicarii_ and that he was from the tribe of > _Issacher_. The most interesting misunderstanding of the name > is its early confusion with the word _scortea_ meaning a leather > money bag. This led to the New Testament myth that Judas > carried such a bag, which in turn led to the belief that he was > the treasurer of the apostles. > > The apostle Peter appears to be a largely fictitious > character. According to Christian mythology, Jesus chose him to > be the "keeper of the keys to the kingdom of heaven." This is > clearly based on the Egyptian pagan deity, Petra, who was the > door-keeper of heaven and the afterlife ruled over by Osiris. > We must also doubt the story of Luke "the good healer" who was > supposed to be a friend of Paul. The original Greek for "Luke" > is "Lykos" which was another name for Apollo, the god of > healing. > > John the Baptist is largely based on an historical > person who practised ritual immersion in water as a physical > symbol for repentence. He did not perform Christian style > sacramental baptisms to cleanse people's souls - such an idea > was totally foreign to Judaism. He was put to death by Herod > Antipas who feared that he was about to start a rebellion. > John's name in Greek was "Ioannes" and in Latin "Johannes." > Although these names were usually used for the Hebrew name > Yochanan, it is unlikely that this was John's actual Hebrew > name. "Ioannes" closely resembles "Oannes" the Greek name for > the pagan god Ea. Oannes was the "God of the House of Water." > Sacramental baptism for magically cleansing souls, was a > practice which apparently originated in the worship of Oannes. > The most likely explanation of John's name and its connection > with Oannes is that John probably bore the nickname "Oannes" > since he practised baptism which he had adapted from the worship > of Oannes. The name "Oannes" was later confused with "Ioannes." > (In fact, the New Testament legend concerning John provides a > clue that his real name might have been Zacharia.) It is known > from Josephus's writings that the historical John rejected the > pagan "soul-cleansing" interpretation of baptism. The > Christians, however, returned to this original pagan > interpretation. > > The god Oannes was associated with the constellation > Capricorn. Both Oannes and the constellation Capricorn were > associated with water. (The constellation is supposed to depict > a mythical sea-creature with the body of a fish and the > foreparts of a goat.) We have already seen that Jesus was given > the same birthday as the sun god (25 December), when the sun is > in the constellation of Capricorn. The pagans thought of this > period as one where the sun god is immersed in the waters of > Oannes and emerges reborn. (The Winter Solstice, when days > start getting longer, occurs near 25 December.) This > astrological myth is apparently the origin of the story that > Jesus was baptised by John. It probably started as an > allegorical astrological story, but it appears that the god > Oannes later became confused with the historical person > nicknamed Oannes (John). > > The belief that Jesus had met John contributed to the > belief that Jesus's ministry and crucifixion occured when > Pontius Pilate was procurator of Judaea. It should be noted > that most dates for Jesus quoted by Christians are completely > nonsense. Jesus was partly based on Yeishu and ben Stada who > probably lived more than a century apart. He was also based on > the three false Messiahs, Yehuda, Theudas and Benjamin, who were > crucified by the Romans at various different times. Another > fact that contributed to confused dating of Jesus was that Jacob > of Kfar Sekanya and probably other Notzrim as well, used > expressions like "thus was I taught by Yeishu ha-Notzri," even > though he had not been taught by Yeishu in person. We know from > the Gemara that Jacob's statement led Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus > to incorrectly conclude that Jacob was a disciple of Yeishu. > This suggests that there were rabbis who were unaware of the > fact that Yeishu had lived in Hashmonean times. Even after > Christians placed Jesus in the first century C.E., confusion > continued among non-Christians. There was a contempory of Rabbi > Akiva named Pappus ben Yehuda who used to lock up his unfaithful > wife. We know from the Gemara that some people who confused > Yeishu and ben Stada, confused the wife of Pappus with Miriam > the unfaithful mother of Yeishu. This would place Yeishu more > than two centuries after he actually lived! > > The New Testament story confuses so many historical > periods that there is no way of reconciling it with history. > The traditional year of Jesus's birth is 1 C.E. Jesus was > supposed to be not more than two years old when Herod ordered > the slaughter of the innocents. However, Herod died before 12 > April 4 B.C.E. This has led some Christians to redate the birth > of Jesus in 6 - 4 B.C.E. However, Jesus was also supposed have > been born during the census of Quirinius. This census took > place after Archelaus was deposed in 6 C.E., ten years after > Herod's death. Jesus was supposed to have been baptised by John > soon after John had started baptising and preaching in the > fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberias i.e. 28 - 29 C.E., when > Pontius Pilate was governer of Judaea i.e. 26 - 36 C.E. > According to the New Testament, this also happened when Lysanias > was tetrarch of Abilene and Annas and Caiaphas were high > priests. But Lysanias ruled Abilene from c. 40 B.C.E until he > was executed in 36 B.C.E by Mark Antony, about 60 years before > the date for Tiberias and about 30 years before the supposed > birth of Jesus! Also, there were never two joint high priests, > in particular, Annas was not a joint high priest with Caiaphas. > Annas was removed from the office of high priest in 15 C.E > after holding office for some nine years. Caiaphas only became > high priest in c. 18 C.E, about three years after Annas. (He > held this office for about eighteen years, so his dates are > consistent with Tiberias and Pontius Pilate, but not with Annas > or Lysanias.) Although the book of _Acts_ presents Yehuda of > Galilee, Theudas and Jesus as three different people, it > incorrectly places Theudas (crucified 44 C.E.) before Yehuda who > it correctly mentions as being crucified during the census (6 > C.E.). Many of these chronological absurdities seem to be based > on misreadings and misunderstandings of Josephus's book _Jewish > Antiquities _which was used as reference by the author of _Luke_ > and _Acts_. > > The story of Jesus's trial is also highly suspicious. > It clearly tries to placate the Romans while defaming the Jews. > The historical Pontius Pilate was arrogant and despotic. He > hated the Jews and never delegated any authority to them. > However, in Christian mythology, he is portrayed as a concerned > ruler who distanced himself from the accusations against Jesus > and who was coerced into obeying the demands of the Jews. > According to Christian mythology, every Passover, the Jews would > ask Pilate to free any one criminal they chose. This is of > course a blatant lie. Jews never had a custom of freeing guilty > criminals at Passover or any other time of the year. According > the myth, Pilate gave the Jews the choice of freeing Jesus the > Christ or a murderer named Jesus Barabbas. The Jews are alleged > to have enthusiastically chosen Jesus Barabbas. This story is a > vicious antisemitic lie, one of many such lies found in the New > Testament (largely written by antisemites). What is > particularly disgusting about this rubbish story is that it is > apparently a distortion of an earlier story which claimed that > the Jews demanded that Jesus Christ be set free. The name > "Barabbas" is simply the Greek form of the Aramaic "bar Abba" > which means "son of the Father." Thus "Jesus Barabbas" > originally meant "Jesus the son of the Father," in other words, > the usual Christian Jesus. When the earlier story claimed that > the Jews wanted Jesus Barabbas to be set free it was referring > to the usual Jesus. Somebody distorted the story by claiming > that Jesus Barabbas was a different person to Jesus Christ and > this fooled the Roman and Greek Christians who did not know the > meaning of the name "Barabbas." > > Lastly, the claim that the resurrected Jesus appeared to > his disciples is also based on pagan superstition. In Roman > mythology, the virgin born Romulus appeared to his friend on the > road before he was taken up to heaven. (The theme of being > taken up to heaven is found in scores of pagan myths and legends > and even in Jewish stories.) It was claimed that Apollonius of > Tyana had also appeared to his disciples after having been > resurrected. It is interesting to note that the historical > Apollonius was born more or less at the same time as the > mythical Jesus was supposed to have been born. In legends > people claimed that he had performed many miracles which were > identical to those also ascribed to Jesus, such as exorcisms of > demons and the raising to life of a dead girl. > > When confronted with Christian missionaries one should > point out as much information as possible about the origins of > Christianity and the Jesus myth. You will almost never succeed > in convincing them that Christianity is a false religion. You > will not be able to prove beyond all doubt that the story of > Jesus arose in the way we have claimed it has, since most of the > evidence is circumstancial. Indeed we cannot be certain about > the precise origin of many particular points in the story of > Jesus. This does not matter. What is important is that you > yourself realize that logical alternatives exist to blind belief > in Christian myths and that reasonable doubt can be cast on the > New Testament narrative. > > > > > REFUTING MISSIONARIES: > > PART 2: THE LACK OF HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FOR JESUS > > > The usual Christian response to those who question the > historicity of Jesus is to palm off various documents as > "historical evidence" for the existence of Jesus. They usually > start with the canonical gospels of _Matthew_, _Mark_, _Luke_ > and _John_. The usual claim is that these are "_eyewitness > accounts of the life of Jesus made by his disciples_." The > reply to this argument can be summed up in one word - > *pseudepigraphic*. This term refers to works of writing whose > authors conceal their true identities behind the names of > legendary characters from the past. Pseudepigraphic writing > was particularly popular among the Jews during Hashmonean and > Roman periods and this style of writing was adopted by the > early Christians. > > The canonical gospels are not the only gospels. For > example, there are also gospels of _Mary_, _Peter_, _Thomas_ and > _Philip_. These four gospels are recognized as being > pseudepigraphic by both Christian and non-Christian scholars. > They provide no legitimate historical information since they > were based on rumours and belief. The existence of these > obviously pseudepigraphic gospels makes it quite reasonable to > suspect that the canonical gospels might also be > pseudepigraphic. The very fact that early Christians wrote > pseudepigraphic gospels suggests that this was in fact the norm. > It is thus the missionaries' claim that the canonical gospels > are *not* pseudepigraphic which requires proof. > > The _Gospel of Mark_ is written in the name of Mark, the > disciple of the mythical Peter. (Peter is largely based on the > pagan god Petra, who was door-keeper of heaven and the afterlife > in Egyptian religion.) Even in Christian mythology, Mark was not > a disciple of Jesus, but a friend of Paul and Luke. _Mark_ was > written before _Matthew and _Luke_ (c. 100 C.E.) but after the > destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E. which it mentions. Most > Christians believe it was written in c. 75 C.E. This date is > not based on history but on the belief that an historical Mark > wrote the gospel in his old age. This is not possible since the > style of language used in _ Mark_ shows that it was written > (probably in Rome) by a Roman convert to Christianity whose > first language was Latin and not Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic. > Indeed, since all the other gospels are written in the name of > legendary characters from the past, _Mark_ was probably written > long after any historical Mark (if there was one) had died. The > contents of _Mark_ is a collection of myths and legends put > together to form a continuous narrative. There is no evidence > that it was based on any reliable historical sources. _Mark was > altered and edited many times and the modern version probably > dates to about 150 C.E. Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 C.E. - > c. 215 C.E.) complained about the alternative versions of this > gospel which were still circulating in his lifetime. (The > Carpocratians, an early Christian sect, considered paederasty to > be a virtue and Clement complained about their versions of _Mark_ > which told of Jesus's homosexual exploits with young boys!) > > The _Gospel of Matthew_ was certainly not written by the > apostle Matthew. The character of Matthew is based on the > historical person named Mattai who was a disciple of Yeishu ben > Pandeira. (Yeishu, who lived in Hashmonean times, was one of > several historical people upon whom the character Jesus is > based.) The _Gospel of Matthew _ was originally anonymous and > was only assigned the name _Matthew_ some time during the first > half of the second century C.E. The earliest form was probably > written at more or less the same time as the _Gospel of Luke_ > (c. 100 C.E.) since neither seems to know of the other. It was > altered and edited until about 150 C.E. The first two chapters, > dealing with the virgin birth, were not in the original version > and the Christians in Israel of Jewish descent prefered this > earlier version. For its sources it used _Mark_ and a > collection of teachings referred to as the _Second Source_ (or > the _Q Document_). The _Second Source_ has not survived as a > separate document, but its full contents are found in _Matthew_ > and _Luke_. All the teachings contained in it can be found in > Judaism. The more reasonable teachings can be found in > mainstream Judaism, while the less reasonable ones can be found > in sectarian Judaism. There is nothing in it which would > require us to suppose the existence of a real historical Jesus. > Although _ Matthew_ and _Luke_ attribute the teachings in it to > Jesus, the _Epistle of James_ attributes them to James. Thus > _Matthew_ provides no historical evidence for Jesus. > > The _Gospel of Luke_ and the book of _Acts_ (which were > two parts of a single work) were written in the name of the > Christian mythological character Luke the healer (who was > probably not an historical person but a Christian adaptation of > the Greek healer god Lykos). Even in Christian mythology, Luke > was not a disciple of Jesus but a friend of Paul. _Luke_ and _ > Acts_ use Josephus's _Jewish Antiquities_ as a reference, and so > they could not have been written before 93 C.E. At this time, > any friend of Paul would be either dead or well into senility. > Indeed, both Christian and non-Christian scholars agree that the > earliest versions of the two books were written by an anonymous > Christian in c. 100 C.E and were altered and edited until c. 150 > - 175 C.E. Besides Josephus's book, _Luke_ and _Acts _also use > the _Gospel of Mark_, and the _Second Source_ as references. > Although Josephus is considered to be more or less reliable, the > anonymous author often misread and misunderstood Josephus and > moreover, none of the information about Jesus in _Luke_ and > _Acts _ comes from Josephus. Thus _Luke _and _Acts_ is of no > historical value. > > The _Gospel of John_ was written in the name of the > apostle John the brother of James, son of Zebedee. The author > of Luke used as many sources as he could get hold of but hewas > unaware of _John_. Thus _John could not have been written > before _Luke (c. 100 C.E.) Consequently _John_ could not have > been written by the semi-mythical character John the Apostle who > was supposed to have been killed by Herod Agrippa shortly before > his own death in 44 C.E. (John the Apostle is apparently based > on an historical disciple of the false Messiah Theudas who was > crucified by the Romans in 44 C.E. and whose disciples were > murdered.) The real author of the _Gospel of John_ was in fact > an anonymous Christian from Ephesus in Asia Minor. The oldest > surviving fragment of _John_ dates to c. 125 C.E. and so we can > date the gospel to c. 100 - 125 C.E. Based on stylistic > considerations many scholars narrow down the date to c. 110 - > 120 C.E. The earliest version of _John _ did not contain the > last chapter which deals with Jesus appearing to his disciples. > Like the other gospels, _John_ probably only attained its > present form around 150 - 175 C.E. The author of _John_ used > _Mark_ sparingly and so one suspects that he did not trust it. > He either had not read _ Matthew_ and _Luke_ or he did not trust > them since he does not use any information from them which was > not found in _Mark_. Most of _John_ consists of legends with > obvious underlying allegorical interpretations and one suspects > that the author never intended them to be history. _John _ does > not contain any information from reliable historical sources. > > Christians will claim that the _Gospel of John _itself > states that it is an historical document written by John. This > claim is based on the verses _John 19.34 - 35 and _John_ 21.20 - > 24. _John_ 19.34 - 35 does not claim that the gospel was > written by John. It claims that the events described in the > immediately preceding verses were accurately reported by a > witness. The passage is ambiguous and it is not clear whether > the witness is supposed to be the same person as the author. > Many scholars are of the opinion that the ambiguity is > deliberate and that the author of _ John_ is trying to tease his > readers in this passage as well as in the passages which tell > miraculous stories with allegorical interpretations. _John_ > 21.20 - 24 also does not claim that the author is John. It > claims that the disciple mentioned in the passage is the one who > witnessed the events described. It is again notably ambiguous > as regards the question of whether the disciple is the same > person as the author. It should be noted that this passage is > in the last chapter of _John _which was not part of the original > gospel but was added on as an epilogue by an anonymous redactor. > One should beware the fact that many "easy to understand" > translations of the New Testament distort the passages mentioned > so as to remove the ambiguity found in the original Greek. > (Ideally one needs to be familiar with the original Greek text > of the New Testament in order to avoid biased and distorted > translations used by fundamentalist Christians and > missionaries.) > > In order to back up their claims that the gospels of _ > Mark_ and _Matthew_ were written by the "real" apostles Mark and > Matthew and that Jesus is an historical person, missionaries > often point to the so-called "testimony of Papias." Papias was > the bishop of Hierapolis(near Ephesus) during the middle of the > second century C.E. None of his writings have survived but the > Christian historian Eusebius (c. 260 - 339 C.E.) in his book, > _Ecclesiastical History (written c. 311 - 324 C.E.) paraphrased > certain passages from Papias's book _ Exposition of the Oracles > of the Lord _(written c. 140 - 160 C.E.). In these passages, > Papias claimed that he had known the daughters of the apostle > Philip and also reported several stories which he claimed came > from people named Aristion and John the Elder, who had still > been alive during his own lifetime. Eusebius appears to have > thought that Aristion and John the Elder were disciples of > Jesus. Papias claimed that John the Elder had said that Mark > had been Peter's interpreter and had written down accurately > everything that Peter had to tell about Jesus. Papias also > claimed that Matthew had compiled all the "oracles" in Hebrew > and everyone had interpreted them as best they could. None of > this, however, provides any legitimate historical evidence of > Jesus nor does it back up the belief that _Mark_ and _Matthew_ > were really written by apostles bearing those names. Papias was > a name dropper and it is by no means certain that he was honest > when he claimed that he had met Philip's daughters. Even if he > had, this would at most prove that the apostle Philip in > Christian mythology was based on an historical person. Papias > never explicitly claimed that he had met Aristion and John the > Elder. Moreover, just because Eusebius in the 4th century > believed that they were disciples of Jesus does not mean that > they were. Nothing at all is known about who on earth Aristion > actually was. He is certainly not one of the disciples in the > usual Christian tradition. I have seen books in which certain > fundamentalist Christians claim that John the Elder was the > apostle John the son of Zebedee and that he was still alive when > Papias was young. They also claim that Papias lived in c. 60 - > 130 C.E. and that he wrote his book in c. 120 C.E. These dates > are not based on any legitimate evidence and are complete > nonsense: Papias was bishop of Hierapolis in c. 150 C.E and as > already mentioned his book was written sometime in the period c. > 140 - 160 C.E. Pushing the date for Papias back to 60 C.E. > still does not place him during the lifetime of the apostle John > who according to standard Christian legends was killed in 44 > C.E. Besides, it is unlikely that John the Elder had anything > to do with John the Apostle. According to Epiphanius (c. 320 - > 403 C.E.), an early Christian named John the Elder had died in > 117 C.E. We will have more to say about him when we discuss the > three epistles named after John. Whatever the case, the stories > which Papias collected were being told at least a decade after > the gospels and _Acts_ had been written and reflect unfounded > rumours and superstition about the origins of these books. In > particular, the story about Mark obtained from John the Elder, > is nothing more than a slight elaboration of the legend about > Mark found in _Acts_ and so it tells us nothing about the true > origins of the _Gospel of Mark_. The story about Matthew > writing the "oracles" is simply a rumour, and besides, it does > nothave anything to do with the _Gospel of Matthew _. The term > "oracles" can only be understood as a reference to the > collection of writings known as the _Oracles of the Lord _ which > is referred to in the title of Papias's book and which in all > likelyhood is the same thing as the _Second Source_, not the > _Gospel of Matthew_. > > Besides the the canonical gospels and _Acts , > missionaries also try to use the various Christian epistles as > proof of the Jesus story. They claim that the epistles are > letters written by Jesus's disciples and followers. However, > epistles (from the Greek _ epistol q _e_, meaning message or > order) are books, written in the form of letters (usually from > legendary characters from the past), which expound religious > doctrines and instructions. This form of religious writing was > used by the Jews in Greco-Roman times. (The most famous Jewish > epistle is the _Epistle of Jeremiah , which is a lengthy > condemnation of idolatry written during the Hellinistic period > in the form of a letter from the prophet Jeremiah to the people > of Jerusalem just before they were exiled to Babylon.) As in the > case of the gospels, there are Christian epistles not contained > in the New Testament which both Christian and non-Christian > scholars agree are pseudepigraphic and of no historical value > since they expound beliefs and not history. The existence of > pseudepigraphic epistles and indeed the whole concept of an > epistle, suggests that epistles were normally pseudepigraphic. > Thus again it is the claims by missionaries and Christian > fundamentalists, that the canonical epistles are genuine > letters, which requires proof. > > The _Epistle of Jude_ is written in the name of Jude > (Judas) the brother of James. According to _Mark _ and > _Matthew_, Jesus had brothers named Judas and James. Comparison > with other writings shows that the _Epistle of Jude_ was written > in c. 130 C.E. and so it is obviously pseudepigraphic. There is > no evidence however that its author used any legitimate > historical sources as regards Jesus. > > Two of the canonical epistles are written in the name of > Peter. Since Peter is a mythical Christian adaptation of the > Egyptian pagan deity Petra, these epistles were certainly not > written by him. The style and character of the _First Epistle > of Peter alone shows that it could not have been written earlier > than c. 80 C.E. Even according to Christian legend, Peter was > supposed to have died following the persecutions instigated by > Nero in c. 64 C.E. and so he could not have written the > epistle. The author of _Luke_ and _Acts_ used all written > sources he could get hold of and tended to use them > indiscriminately, however he did not mention any epistles by > Peter. This shows that the _First Epistle of Peter_ was > probably written after _Luke_ and _Acts_ (c. 100 C.E.). No > references to Jesus in the _First Epistle of Peter _ are taken > from historical sources but instead reflect beliefs and > superstition. The _Second Epistle of Peter_ speaks out against > the Marcionists and so it must have been written c. 150 C.E. It > is thus clearly pseudepigraphic. The _Second Epistle ofPeter > uses as sources: the story of Jesus's transfiguration found in > _ Mark_, _Matthew_ and _Luke_ , the _Apocalypse of Peter _and > the _Epistle of Jude_. The non-canonical _ Apocalypse of Peter_ > (written some time in the first quarter of the second century > C.E.) is recognized as being non-historical even by > fundamentalist Christians. Thus the _Second Epistle of Peter _ > also does not use any legitimate historical sources. > > We now turn to the epistles supposedly written by Paul. > The _First Epistle of Paul to Timothy_ warns against the > Marcionist work known as the _Antithesis_. Marcion was expelled > from the Church of Rome in c. 144 C.E. and the _First Epistle > of Paul to Timothy_ was written shortly afterwards. Thus we > again have a clear case of pseudepigraphy. The _Second Epistle > of Paul to Timothy_ and the _Epistle of Paul to Titus _ were > written by the same author and date to about the same period. > These three epistles are known as the "pastoral epistles." The > ten remaining "non-pastoral" epistles written in the name of > Paul, were known to Marcion by c. 140 C.E. Some of them were > not written in Paul's name alone but are in the form of letters > written by Paul in collaboration with various friends such as > Sosthenes, Timothy, and Silas. The author of _Luke_ and _Acts_, > went out of his way to obtain all sources available and tended > to use them indiscriminately, but he used nothing from the > Pauline epistles. We can thus conclude that the non-pastoral > epistles were written after _Luke_ and _Acts_ in the period c. > 100 - 140 C.E. The non-canonical _First Epistle of Clement to > the Corinthians_ (written c. 125 C.E.) uses the _First Epistle > of Paul to the Corinthians_ as a source and so we can narrow > down the date for that epistle to c. 100 - 125 C.E. However, > we are left with the conclusion that that all the Pauline > epistles are pseudepigraphic. (The semi-mythical Paul was > supposed to have died during the persecutions instigated by Nero > in c. 64 C.E.) Some of the Pauline epistles appear to be have > been altered and edited numerous times before reaching their > modern forms. As sources they use each other, _Acts_, the > gospels of _Mark_, _Matthew_ and _Luke_ and the _First Epistle > of Peter_ . We may thus conclude that they provide no > historical evidence of Jesus. > > The _Epistle to the Hebrews_ is a particularly > interesting epistle since it is not pseudepigraphic but > completely anonymous. Its author neither reveals his own name > nor does he write in the name of a Christian mythological > character. Fundamentalist Christians claim that it is another > epistle by Paul and in fact call it the _Epistle of Paul to the > Hebrews . This idea, apparently dating to the late fourth > century C.E., is not accepted by all Christians however. As a > source for its information on Jesus it uses material common to > _Mark , _Matthew_ and _Luke , but no legitimate sources. The > author of the _First Epistle of Clement _ used it as a source > and so it must have been written before that epistle (c. 125 > C.E.) but after at least the _Gospel of Mark _ (c. 75 - 100 > C.E.). > > The _Epistle of James_ is written in the name of a > servant of Jesus called James(or Jacobus). However, in > Christian mythology there were two apostles named James and > Jesus also had a brother named James. It is not clear which > James is intended and there is no agreement among Christians > themselves. It quotes sayings from the _Second Source _ but > unlike _Matthew_ and _Luke _ it does not attribute these sayings > to Jesus but presents them as sayings of James. It contains an > important argument against the doctrine of "salvation through > faith" expounded in the _Epistle of Paul to the Romans_. We can > thus conclude that it was written during the first half of the > second century C.E., after _Romans_ but before the time that > _Matthew_ and _Luke _ were accepted by all Christians. Thus > regardless of which James is intended, the _Epistle of James_ > is pseudepigraphic. It says almost nothing about Jesus and there > is no evidence that the author had any historical sources for > him. > > There are three epistles named after the apostle John. > None of them are in fact written in the name of John and were > probably only ascribed to him some time after they had been > written. The _First Epistle of John_ , like the _Epistle to the > Hebrews_, is completely anonymous. The idea that it was written > by John arises from the fact that it used the _Gospel of John_ > as a source. The other two epistles named after John are > written by a single author who instead of writing in the name of > an apostle, chose simply to call himself "the Elder." The idea > that these two epistles were written by John arose from the > beliefs that "the Elder" referred to John the Elder and that he > was the same person as the apostle John. In the case of the > _Second Epistle of John _ this belief was reinforced by the fact > that that epistle also uses the _Gospel of John _as a source. > We can thus conclude that the first two epistles ascribed to > John were written after the _Gospel of John_ (c. 110 - 120 > C.E.). Consequently none of the three epistles could have been > written by the apostle John. It should be pointed out that it > is quite possible that the pseudonym "the Elder" does refer to > the person named John the Elder, but if this is so, he is > certainly not the apostle John. The first two John epistles use > only the _ Gospel of John_ as a source for Jesus; they do not > use any legitimate sources. The _Third Epistle of John_ barely > mentions "Christ" and there is no evidence that it used any > historical sources for him. > > Besides the epistles named after John, the New Testament > also contains a book known as the _Revelation to John . This > book combines two forms of religious writing, that of the > epistle and that of the apocalypse. (Apocalypses are religious > works which are written in the form of revelations about the > future made by a famous character from the past. These > revelations usually describe unfortunate events occurring at the > time of writing and also offer some hope to the reader that > things will improve.) It is not certain how much editing the > _Revelation to John_ underwent and so it is difficult to date it > precisely. Since it mentions the persecutions instigated by > Nero we can say with certainty that it was not written earlier > than 64 C.E. Thus it cannot have been written by the "real > John." Thefirst few verses form an introduction which is > clearly not intended to be by John and which provides a vague > admission that the book is pseudepigraphic even though the > author feels that his message is inspired by G-d. The style of > writing and the references to the practice of kriobolium > (baptism in sheeps blood) suggests that the author was one of > those people of Jewish descent who mixed Judaism with pagan > practices. There were many such "pagan Jews" during Roman times > and it was these people who become the first converts to > Christianity, established the first churches, and who were > probably also responsible for introducing pagan myths into the > story of Jesus. (They are also remembered for their rediculous > belief that "Adonai _ Tzevaot_" was the same as the pagan god > "_Sebazios_ .") The references to Jesus in the book are few and > their is no evidence that they are based on anything but belief. > > Besides the epistles accepted in the New Testament and > besides the epistles which are unanimously recognized as being > of no value (such as the _Epistle of Barnabas_), there are also > several epistles which although not accepted in the New > Testament, are considered of value by some Christians. Firstly > there are the epistles named after Clement. In Christian > legend, Clement was the third in succession of Peter as bishop > of Rome. The _First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians_ is > not in fact written in the name of Clement but in the name of > the "Church of God which sojourns in Rome." It refers to a > persecution which is generally thought to have occured in 95 > C.E. under Domitian, and it refers to the dismissal of the > elders of the Church of Corinth in c. 96 C.E. Christians > believe that Clement was bishop of Rome during this time and > this is apparently the reason why the epistle was later named > after him. Fundamentalist Christians believe that the epistle > was in fact written in c. 96 C.E. This date is not possible > since the epistle refers to bishops and priests as separate > groups; a division which had not taken place yet. Stylistic > considerations show that it was written in c. 125 C.E. As > references it used the _ Epistle to the Hebrews_ and The _First > Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians_ but no legitimate historical > sources. The _Second Epistle of Clement_ is by a different > author to the first and was written later. We may thus conclude > that it was also not written by Clement. (There is no evidence > that either of these epistles were named after Clement before > their incorporation into the collection of books known as the > _Codex Alexandrinus , in the fifth century C.E.) As sources for > Jesus, the _Second Epistle of Clement _ uses the _Gospel of the > Egyptians_, a document which is rejected by even the most > fundamentalist Christians, and also the New Testament books > which we have shown to be valueless. Thus again we have no > legitimate evidence of Jesus. > > Next we have the epistles written in the name of > Ignatius. According to legend, Ignatius was the bishop of > Antioch who was killed under Trajan's rule c. 110 C.E. > (Although he is probably based on a real historical person the > legends about hismartyrdom are largely fictional.) There are > fifteen epistles written in his name. Of these, eight are > unanimously recognized as being pseudepigraphic and of no value > as regards Jesus. The remaining seven each have two forms, a > longer and a shorter. The longer forms are clearly altered and > edited versions of the shorter forms. Fundamentalist Christians > claim that the shorter forms are genuine letters written by > Ignatius. The _ Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans_ mentions > the threefold ordering of bishops, priests and deacons which had > not yet taken place by Ignatius's death which occurred no later > than 117 C.E. and which probably took place c. 110 C.E. All > seven shorter epistles attack various Christian beliefs, now > considered heretical, which only became prevalent c. 140 - 150 > C.E. The shorter _Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans_ contains a > quote from the writings of Irenaeus, written after 170 C.E. and > published c. 185 C.E. We can thus conclude that the seven > shorter epistles are also pseudepigraphic. The shorter _Epistle > of Ignatius to the Romans_ was certainly written after 170 C.E. > (In fact, if it was not written by Irenaeus then it was > probably written after c. 185 C.E.) and the other six were > written no earlier than the period c. 140 - 150 C.E. if not > later. There are no sources for Jesus in the Ignatian epistles > other than the New Testament books and the writings of Irenaeus > which only use the New Testament. Thus they contain no > legitimate evidence of Jesus. > > There are two more epistles which Christians claim are > genuine letters, namely the _Epistle of Polycarp_ and the > _Martyrdom of Polycarp_. The Ignatian epistles and the epistles > concerning Polycarp have always been closely associated. It is > quite possible that they were all written by the Christian > writer Irenaeus and his disciples. There certainly was a real > historical early Christian named Polycarp. He was bishop of > Smyrna and was killed by the Romans sometime in the period 155 - > 165 C.E. When Irenaeus was a boy he knew Polycarp. > Fundamentalist Christians claim that Polycarp was the disciple > of the apostle John. However, even if we accept the legend that > Polycarp lived to the age of 86, he could not have been born > earlier than 67 C.E and therefore could not have been a disciple > of John. (It is possible that he was a disciple of the > enigmatic John the Elder.) Since Irenaeus had known Polycarp > they also assume that Irenaeus was in fact his disciple, a claim > for which there is no evidence. _The Epistle of Polycarp_ uses > most New Testament books and the Ignatian epistles as references > but it uses no legitimate sources for Jesus. Those Christians > who reject the Ignatian epistles but believe the _Epistle of > Polycarp_ is a genuine letter, claim that the references to the > Ignatian epistles are a later interpolation. This idea is based > on personal bias not on any genuine evidence. Based on the > blind belief that this epistle is a genuine letter, some > Christians date it to around the middle of the second century > C.E. shortly before Polycarp's death. However, the references > to the Ignatian epistles suggest that it was in fact written > some time in the last few decades of the secondcentury C.E., at > least about a decade after Polycarp's death if not later. > > The _Martyrdom of Polycarp_ is written in the name of > "the Church of G-d that sojourns in Smyrna." It starts off in > the form of a letter but its main body is written in the form of > an ordinary story. It tells the tale of Polycarp's martyrdom. > Like the _Epistle of Polycarp_, it was written some time during > the last few decades of the second century C.E. Unfortunately, > there is no evidence that it used any reliable sources for its > story, only rumours and hearsay. The story in fact appears to > be highly fictionalized. The references to Jesus are not taken > from any reliable source. > > We have thus seen that the epistles used by missionaries > as "evidence" are just as spurious as the gospels. Again, the > reader should beware "easy to understand" translations of the > New Testament since they call the epistles, "letters," thereby > incorrectly implying that they are really letters written by the > people after whom they are named. > > Now, besides the books of the New Testament, and besides > the epistles relating to Clement, Ignatius and Polycarp, there > is only one more Christian religious work which Christians claim > as historical evidence of Jesus, namely the _Teaching of the > Twelve Apostles_ also known as the _Didache_. All other early > Christian religious works are either wholly rejected by modern > Christians or are least recognized as not being primary sources > as regards Jesus. The _ Didache_ began as a sectarian Jewish > document, probably written during the period of turmoil in c. > 70 C.E. Its earliest form consisted of moral teachings and > predictions of the destruction of the current world order. This > earliest version, which obviously did not mention Jesus, was > taken over by Christians who heavily edited and altered it, > adding a story of Jesus and rules of worship for early Christian > communities. Scholars estimate that the earliest Christian > version of the _Didache_ could not have been written much later > than 95 C.E. It probably only reached its final form around c. > 120 C.E. It appears to have served an isolated Christian > community in Syria as a "Church Order" during the period c. 100 > - 130 C.E. However, there is no evidence that its story of > Jesus was based on any reliable sources, and as we have > mentioned, the earliest Jewish version had nothing to do with > Jesus. In fact, this document provides evidence that the myth > of Jesus grew gradually. Like the _Gospel of Mark and the early > versions of _Gospel of Matthew , the Jesus story in the > _Didache_ makes no mention of a virgin birth. It makes no > mention of the fantastic miracles which were later attributed to > Jesus. Although Jesus is referred to as a "son" of G-d, it > appears that this term is being used figurativly. The evidence > we have concerning the origin of the crucifixion myth suggests > that one of the things leading to this myth was the fact that > the cross was the astrological symbol of the Vernal Equinox > which occurs near Passover, when Jesus was believed to have been > killed. It is thus not surprising to find that the story in the > _Didache_ makes no mention of Jesus being crucified, although > itmentions a cross in the sky as a sign of Jesus. The twelve > apostles mentioned in the full title of the _Didache_ do not > appear as twelve real disciples of Jesus and the term clearly > refers to the twelve sons of Jacob representing the twelve > tribes of Israel. Thus the _Didache_ provides vital clues > concerning the growth of the Jesus myth, but it certainly does > not provide any evidence of an historical Jesus. > > Since none of the Christian religious texts provide any > acceptable evidence of Jesus, missionaries turn next to > non-Christian texts. Christians claim that several reliable > historians recorded information about Jesus. Although some of > these historians are more or less accepted, we shall see that > they do not provide any information about Jesus. > > Firstly, Christians claim that the Jewish historian > Josephus recorded information about Jesus in his book _Jewish > Antiquities _ (published c. 93 - 94 C.E.) It is true that this > book contains information about the three false Messiahs, Yehuda > of Galilee, Theudas and Benjamin the Egyptian, and it is true > that the character of Jesus appears to be based on all of them > in part, but none of them can be regarded as the historical > Jesus. Moreover, in the book of _Acts_, these people are > mentioned as being different people to Jesus and so modern > Christianity actually rejects any connection between them and > Jesus. In the Christian edited versions of the _Jewish > Antiquities_ there are two passages dealing with Jesus as > portrayed in Christian religious works. Neither of these > passages are found in the original version of the _Jewish > Antiquities_ which was preserved by the Jews. The first passage > (XVII,3,3) was quoted by Eusebius writing in c. 320 C.E. and so > we can conclude that it was added in some time between the time > Christians got hold of the _Jewish Antiquities_ and c. 320 C.E. > It is not known when the other passage (XX,9,1) was added in. > Neither passage is based on any reliable sources. It is > fraudulent to claim that these passages were written by Josephus > and that they provide evidence for Jesus. They were written by > Christian redactors and were based purely on Christian belief. > > Next the Christians will point to the _Annals _by > Tacitus. In the _Annals_ XV,44, Tacitus describes how Nero > blamed the Christians for the fire of Rome in 64 C.E. He > mentions that the name "Christians" originated from a person > named Christus who had been executed by Pontius Pilate during > the reign of Tiberias. It is certainly true that the name > "Christians" is derived from Christ or Christus (=Messiah), but > Tacitus' claim that he was executed by Pilate during the reign > of Tiberias is based purely on the claims being made by the > Christians themselves and appearing in the gospels of _Mark_, > _Matthew _and _Luke_ which had already been widely circulated > when the _Annals_ were being written. (The _Annals_ were > published after 115 C.E. and were certainly not written before > 110 C.E.) Thus, although the _Annals_ contains a sentence in > which "Christus" is spoken of as a real person, this sentence > was based purely on Christian claims and beliefs which are of no > historical value.It is quite ironic that modern Christians use > Tacitus to back up their beliefs since he was the least accurate > of all Roman historians. He justifies hatred of Christians by > saying that they committed abominations. Besides "Christus" he > also speaks of various pagan gods as if they really exist. His > summary of Middle East history in his book the _Histories_ is so > distorted as to be laughable. We may conclude that his single > mention of Christus cannot be taken as reliable evidence of an > historical Jesus. > > Once Tacitus is dismissed, the Christians will claim > that one of the younger Pliny's letters to the emperor Trajan > provides evidence of an historical Jesus. (_Letters_ X,96.) > This is nonsense. The letter in question simply mentions that > certain Christians had cursed "Christ" to avoid being punished. > It does not claim that this Christ really existed. The letter > in question was written before Pliny's death in c. 114 C.E. > but after he was sent to Bithynia in 111 C.E., probably in the > year 112 C.E. Thus it provides nothing more than a confirmation > of the trivial fact that around the beginning of the twelfth > decade C.E. Christians did not normally curse something called > "Christ" although some had done it to avoid punishment. It > provides no evidence of an historical Jesus. > > Christians will also claim that Suetonius recorded > evidence of Jesus in his book _Lives of the Caesars_ (also known > as _The Twelve Caesars_). The passage in question is _Claudius_ > 25, where he mentions that the emperor Claudius expelled the > Jews from Rome (apparently in 49 C.E.) because they caused > continual disturbances at the instigation of a certain Chrestus. > If one blindly assumes that "Chrestus" refers to Jesus then, if > anything, this passage contradicts the Christian story of Jesus > since Jesus was supposed have been crucified when Pontius Pilate > was procurator (26 - 36 C.E.) during the reign of Tiberias and > moreover, he was never supposed to have been in Rome! Suetonius > lived during the period (c. 75 - 150 C.E.) and his book, _Lives > of the Caesars_, was published during the period 119 - 120 C.E. > having been written some time after Domitian's death in 96 C.E. > Thus the event he describes occurred at least 45 years before > he was writing about it and so we cannot be certain of its > accuracy. The name Chrestus is derived from the Greek > _Chrestos_ meaning "good one" and it is not the same as Christ > or Christus which are derived from the Greek _Christos_ meaning > "anointed one/Messiah." If we take the passage at face value it > refers to a person named Chrestus who was in Rome and who had > nothing to do with Jesus or any other "Christ." The term > Chrestos was often applied to pagan gods and many of the people > in Rome called "Jews" were actually people who mixed Jewish > beliefs with pagan beliefs and who were not necessarily of > Jewish descent. Thus it is also possible that the passage > refers to conflicts involving these pagan "Jews" who worshipped > a pagan god (such as Sebazios) titled Chrestos. On the other > hand, the words Chrestos and Chr istos were often confused and > so the passage might even be referring to some conflict > involving Jews who believed that some person was the Messiah, > but this person may or may not have actually been in Rome and > for all we know, he may not have been a real historical person. > One should bear in mind that the described event took place > just several years after the crucifixion of the false Messiah > Theudas in 44 C.E. and the passage may be referring to his > followers in Rome. Christians claim that the passage refers to > Jesus and conflicts arising after Paul brought news of him to > Rome and that Suetonius was only mistaken about Jesus himself > being in Rome. However, this interpretation is based on blind > belief in Jesus and the myths about Paul and there is nothing to > suggest that it is the correct interpretation. Thus we may > conclude that Suetonius also fails to provide any reliable > evidence of an historical Jesus. > > All other writers who mention Jesus, from Justin Martyr > in the second century C.E. to the latest expounders of > Christian myth in the twentieth century, have all based their > references to Jesus on the sources we have discredited above. > Consequently their claims are worthless as historical evidence. > We are thus left with the conclusion that there is absolutely > no reliable and acceptable historical evidence of Jesus. All > references to Jesus are derived from the superstitious beliefs > and myths of the early Christian community. The majority of > these beliefs only came into existence after the persecution by > Nero and the tragedy of 70 C.E. Many of these beliefs are based > on the pagan legends about the gods Tammuz, Osiris, Attis, > Dionysus and the sun god Mithras. Other myths about Jesus > appear to be based on various different historical people such > as the convicted criminals Yeishu ben Pandeira and ben Stada, > and the crucified false Messiahs Yehuda, Theudas and Benjamin, > but none of these people can be regarded as an historical Jesus. > > > *FURTHER READING* > > > 1) J. Allegro, _The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian > Myth _, Prometheus Books, reprinted 1991. (Examines how ancient > myths were misused by the early church and misrepresented as > history.) > > > 2) J. Campbell, _Occidental Mythology_, Penguin Books, > reprinted 1985. (An exposition of religious mythology in > western civilization. Includes important evidence concerning > the borrowing of pagan myths by Christianity.) > > > 3) E.D. Cohen, _The Mind of the Bible-Believer_, > Prometheus Books, reprinted 1991. (Uncovers the psychological > ploys around which the New Testament is built and exposes the > adverse effects of Christian fundamentalism.) > > > 4) R. Helms, _Gospel Fictions_, Prometheus Books, > reprinted 1991. (Exposes the gospels as being largely fictional > documents composed as a culmination to an extensive mythological > tradition.) > > > 5) S. Levine, _You Take Jesus and I'll Take God: How to > Refute Christian Missionaries_, revised edition, Hamoroh Press, > Los Angeles, 1980. (Exposes the tricks used by missionaries and > the misquotations of the Tanach in the New Testament.) > > > 6) J.M. Robertson, _A Short History of Christianity_, 2nd > Ed., Watts & Co., London 1913. (One of the first serious > academic investigations into the origins of Christianity. > Exposes the elements of the Jesus story borrowed from pagan > myths.) > > > 7) _The Talmud_, should be compulsory reading for all Jews > although it is unfortunately neglected in modern times! > > -- END -- > . > From flesh Mon Jan 10 20:46:22 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA01495; Mon, 10 Jan 94 20:46:16 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401110446.AA01495@wps.com> Subject: Holy Shit! Check out the NetNazis! (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 20:46:16 -0800 (PST) Cc: tjames@netcom.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 36240 > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 15:47:50 > From:ftpserver@banished.com > To: cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu > Subject: FILE > > > We have received your electronic mail request for a file from our system. 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A > reprint from _REMARKS_. > DAILYTEX.TXT 10620 03/19/93 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DAILY TEXAN, by David > Cole. Concerning the _Daily Texan_'s refusal > to print an ad for the video, "David Cole > Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper" (described > in PIPERVID.TXT.) > DAVIDIRV.TXT 14249 01/30/93 "David Irving: Intrepid Battler for > Historical Truth", by Mark Weber, from the > Jan./Feb. 1993 _Journal of Historical Review_ > DCMUSEUM.TXT 6875 01/30/93 "Official US Holocaust Museum To Open in > April in Washington, DC", from the Jan./Feb > 1993 IHR _Journal_ (plus an article from a > Rabbi on "Holocaust obsession killing Jews", > and another..."Most Patriotic".) > DEFENDER.TXT 17378 01/31/93 "Fred Leuchter: Courageous Defender of > Historical Truth", by Mark Weber, from the > Winter 1992-93 IHR _Journal_. Very > informative and inspiring! > DEMJ-ISR.TXT 9978 01/06/94 "Demjanjuk, Israel and The Holocaust", by > Joseph Sobran, from the Nov./Dec. 1993 IHR > _Journal_. > DIESEL1A.TXT 79502 11/03/93 "The Diesel Gas Chambers: Myth Within a > Myth", by Friedrich Paul Berg. Presented > to the 1983 International Revisionist > Conference. Printed in the Spring 1984 IHR > _Journal_. Illustrations are in the file > DIESEL1B.ZIP. > DIESEL1B.ZIP 511850 11/03/93 Seven .GIF files that go with DIESEL1A.ZIP. > Figures 1 through 7, digitized from the IHR > _Journal_ in 640*480*256 greyscale. > DISSOLUT.TXT 4396 03/10/92 Advertisement for the book, _The Dissolution > of Eastern European Jewry_. Where did the > so-called "Six Million" go if they weren't > exterminated? > DOGGLE.TXT 8779 04/24/93 YOU are paying for a Boondoggle of Historic > Proportions! (The U.S. Holocaust Memorial > Museum) > DSCROLLS.TXT 18493 03/10/92 "Whatever Happened to the Dead Sea Scrolls?", > by Martin A. Larson, Ph.D. > ELIEWIES.TXT 16438 03/10/92 "A Prominent False Witness: Elie Wiesel", by > Robert Faurisson > EXODUSNO.TXT 2414 03/10/92 "Exodus Never Happened: Archeologist" The > findings of an Israeli archeologist. > FALSUS.TXT 21302 05/19/92 "Falsus in Uno, Falsus in Omnibus... The > 'Human Soap' Holocaust Myth" > FANTASYL.TXT 40087 12/05/93 THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF B'NAI B'RITH: > TRAPPED IN A NAZI FANTASYLAND, by Bradley R. > Smith. Also includes 3 related articles. > FGASDOOR.TXT 3116 09/10/93 "Gas Chamber Door Fraudulently Portrayed at > US Holocaust Museum", from the September/ > October 1993 IHR _Journal_. > FORGED-A.ZIP 1045917 10/18/93 FORGED "WAR CRIME" PHOTOS MALIGN THE GERMAN > PEOPLE! [Part 1 of 11] Contains sixty-eight > 640*480*256 greyscale digitized GIF graphics. > Viewer not included. > FORGED-B.ZIP 1046266 10/18/93 [part 2 of 11] > FORGED-C.ZIP 1085881 10/18/93 [part 3 of 11] > FORGED-D.ZIP 1035243 10/18/93 [part 4 of 11] > FORGED-E.ZIP 1074908 10/18/93 [part 5 of 11] > FORGED-F.ZIP 967510 10/18/93 [part 6 of 11] > FORGED-G.ZIP 1025388 10/18/93 [part 7 of 11] > FORGED-H.ZIP 1066765 10/18/93 [part 8 of 11] > FORGED-I.ZIP 1034956 10/18/93 [part 9 of 11] > FORGED-J.ZIP 1065608 10/18/93 [part 10 of 11] > FORGED-!.ZIP 17752 10/18/93 [part 11 of 11] > FORGDNFO.TXT 3442 10/20/93 A brief introductory text about the > FORGED-*.ZIP package. Explains what it is > and why it was created. Briefly discusses > the moral issues involved. Recommended. > FRCRTORD.TXT 15312 04/05/93 "French Court Orders Heavy Penalties Against > Faurisson for Holocaust Views -- New French > Legal Assault Against Revisionists and > Freedom of Speech", from the IHR _Journal_, > March/April 1993. > FROM-D&B.TXT 5949 01/08/94 Advertisement from David Cole and Bradley > Smith, printed in the Nov./Dec. 1993 IHR > _Journal_. Discusses the powerful Piper > video and the new video soon to be released! > FURTHERL.TXT 11469 09/20/93 "In Europe: Further Legal Persecution of > Revisionists", from the September/October > 1993 IHR _Journal_. > GASCHMBR.TXT 22483 03/10/92 "The 'Problem of the Gas Chambers'", by > Professor Robert Faurisson. > GENIECEN.TXT 6662 11/12/92 "LATEST COMPUTER NETWORK HOLOCAUST DEBATE > CLOSED DOWN: 'Electronic Democracy' Includes > Censorship", from the November 1992 _IHR > Newsletter_. > GHETOBOY.GIF 133691 09/13/93 (640*480*256) 'Little Ghetto Boy' Prospers in > London. Supposedly killed in a "death > camp", he is alive and well...and rich. > GWTWISTS.TXT 17306 01/09/94 "My Lunch With George: How an Influential > Journalist Twists the Truth", by Mark Weber, > from the Nov./Dec. 1993 IHR _Journal_. > Discusses George Will's blatant dishonesty > and bias. > HATEMONG.GIF 320811 12/30/93 (1024*768*256) See the hate-monger! Read his > lies! Wonder how he won the NOBEL PEACE > PRIZE! > HATEMONG.TXT 6047 06/23/93 "The Nobel Peace Prize for a Hatemonger?" > Professional Jewish "Holocaust survivor" and > Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel calls > upon all Jews to HATE all Germans! Not > Nazis... all Germans! > HEBARNES.GIF 31489 10/04/93 (267*200*256) Harry Elmer Barnes, the founder > of modern Revisionism. Two pictures side by > side, in greyscale. > HITLER1.TXT 147987 12/13/92 "How Hitler Consolidated Power in Germany and > Launched a Social Revolution", by Leon > Degrelle, from the Fall 1992 _IHR Journal_. > Astounding article; a must-read! > HOLDOUBT.TXT 4776 04/22/93 "A Third of Americans Have Holocaust Doubts", > from _The Oregonian_, April 20, 1993, page > A5. Big Brother's iron hold on the People's > minds is slipping! > HOLOFAX1.TXT 2522 11/08/93 Some facts about the DIARY OF ANNE FRANK and > so-called "experts" on the "GAS CHAMBERS". > Brief but very informative. > HOLOHOAX.TXT 4225 11/16/92 IS THE HOLOCAUST A HOAX? "Within 5 minutes, > any intelligent, open-minded person can be > convinced that the Holocaust gassings of WWII > are a profitable hoax." > HUMILIAT.TXT 20253 12/21/93 "SCHOLARS" HUMILIATING STUDENTS, by Bradley > R. Smith. Includes 3 articles: the one he is > responding to (written by Professor Michael > Berenbaum, who "helped create" the U.S. > Holocaust Memorial Museum...) and the ad > which Mr. Berenbaum was responding to. > HUSTLER1.TXT 18175 06/29/93 From _Hustler_ magazine, August 1993: > "WHITEWASHING HITLER -- Taking the Gas Out of > Nazi Infamy", by Jim Redden. > IHRINTRO.TXT 15323 01/24/93 A few facts about the Institute for > Historical Review. > IHRVICTO.TXT 16727 03/10/92 IHR Scores Stunning Victory in Mermelstein > Trial! (October 1991, IHR Newsletter). > IRVFIN3X.TXT 2530 03/29/93 Irving Conviction in Germany Upheld, Fine > Tripled -- Historian Ordered to Pay $18,000 > for "Gas Chamber" Remarks! From the March/ > April 1993 IHR _Journal_. > IRVFINED.TXT 9372 07/25/92 "Irving Fined $6,000 in German 'Gas Chamber' > Trial -- Historian Defies Judge in Dramatic > Case," from the July/August 1992 _IHR > Newsletter_. VERY eye-opening! Also see > IRVFIN3X.TXT, PIPERVID.TXT & DAVIDIRV.TXT! > JEFFRSON.TXT 8906 02/04/93 "Thomas Jefferson's Place in History", by > Martin A. Larson, from the Jan./Feb. 1993 IHR > _Journal_. > JEWISHRV.TXT 14392 08/06/93 "A Jewish Revisionist's Visit to Auschwitz", > by David Cole, printed in the March/April > 1993 IHR _Journal_. > JEWSWAR.TXT 4652 03/10/92 Jews ("World Jewry") declared war on Germany > *before* World War 2! Some documentation. > JHRINDEX.TXT 130851 12/25/93 1980-1993 INDEX for the IHR _Journal_. From > the November/December 1993 IHR _Journal_. > Also indicates which entries are currently > available from Banished CPU's FTP File > Server, their filenames, etc. > JUSTICEF.TXT 33581 01/05/94 "My Campaign for Justice for John Demjanjuk", > by Jerome A. Brentar, from the Nov./Dec. 1993 > IHR _Journal_. With an introduction by Mark > Weber. > KEEPSCHA.TXT 6805 01/08/94 "The Story Keeps Changing", by Doug Collins, > from the Nov./Dec. 1993 IHR _Journal_. > KRISTALL.TXT 42678 03/16/92 Excerpts from: _FLASH POINT: Kristallnacht > 1938, Instigators, Victims and Beneficiaries_ > LEUCBANB.TXT 5965 07/12/92 "LEUCHTER BANNED FROM BRITAIN -- IHR Condemns > New Blow Against Freedom of Speech," from the > November, 1991 _IHR Newsletter_. > LEUCFGHT.TXT 8850 03/10/92 "Fred Leuchter Fights Back", from the _IHR > Newsletter_. > LEUCHTER.TXT 18290 03/10/92 "Inside the Auschwitz 'Gas Chambers'", by > Fred A. Leuchter. An introduction to _The > Leuchter Report_. > LEUCRSTD.TXT 5575 01/08/94 "Fred Leuchter Arrested in Germany: IHR > Protests Politically-Motivated Act of > Censorship", from the Nov./Dec. 1993 IHR > _Journal_. > LEUCVICT.TXT 7343 03/26/92 Leuchter Wins Tactical Victory in Legal > Battle -- Trumped-Up Charges Removed! > LEUCVIND.TXT 65366 01/13/93 "The Leuchter Report Vindicated: A Response > to J.-C. Pressac's Critique", by Paul > Grubach, from the Winter 1992-93 _IHR > Journal_. > LIBRATRS.TXT 20099 08/11/93 "MULTI-MEDIA 'LIBERATORS' PROJECT EXPOSED AS > FRAUD -- Historical Truth Survives > 'Politically Correct' Exploitation," by Mark > Weber and Greg Raven, from the May/June 1993 > IHR _Journal_. > LIFAFTER.TXT 35999 03/02/93 "Is There Life After Persecution? The > Botched Execution of Fred Leuchter", by Fred > A. Leuchter, Jr., from the Winter 1992-93 IHR > _Journal_. > LILIENTH.TXT 3386 11/04/93 A letter from Professor Robert Faurisson to > Dr. Lilienthal, June 18 1993. Copied and > disseminated with permission. Faurisson's > addition: "I received a nice answer from Dr. > Lilienthal; he apologized." > LUFTLRPT.TXT 63566 04/08/93 AUSTRIA'S TOP ENGINEER confirms Leuchter's > findings that the "gas chambers" are hoaxes! > "The Luftl Report -- An Austrian Engineer's > Report on the 'Gas Cambers' of Auschwitz and > Mauthausen", from the Winter 1992-93 IHR > _Journal_. A must-read! > MANUFACT.TXT 6229 09/15/93 "How Fake War Propaganda Stories Are > Manufactured", from the September/October > 1993 IHR _Journal_. One of the documents > declassified by the British Government > earlier this year! > MEMORIAL.TXT 6984 10/20/93 Bradley R. Smith's newest campus ad -- now > being published in university and high school > newspapers across the country! "A > REVISIONIST'S VIEW OF THE U.S. HOLOCAUST > MEMORIAL MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON, D.C.", by > Bradley R. Smith. "You have the right to > know the truth!" This has even been printed > in the _Oregonian_, at Notre Dame, etc.! > MILWAUK1.TXT 4827 12/25/93 "Challenging facts of Holocaust is > responsibility of historians", from the "In > My Opinion" column by Robert Kling, in the > _Milwaukee Journal_, 08/13/93. Breakthrough > article! Reproduced in the Nov./Dec. 1993 > IHR _Journal_. > MOSHEPE.TXT 6464 12/22/93 "HOLOCAUST LIES: BERGEN-BELSEN GASSINGS", > from the Nov./Dec. 1993 IHR _Journal_. You > won't believe how ridiculous a story Moshe > Peer tells and writes! And _The Gazette_ of > Montreal, Canada, publishes it as fact! > MULTICUL.TXT 16399 01/01/93 "The Challenge of 'Multiculturalism' In How > Americans View the Past and the Future", by > Samuel Taylor, from the Summer 1992 _IHR > Journal_. > MUSEUM.TXT 19963 04/21/93 "The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: A Costly > and Dangerous Mistake", by Theodore J. > O'Keefe. > MUSEUMCH.TXT 21432 09/04/93 "THE U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: A > CHALLENGE", by Robert Faurisson, printed (in > translation) in the July/August 1993 IHR > _Journal_. > NEVERFRG.TXT 24947 03/10/92 Witness for the Defense: NEVER FORGET (the > inaccurate docudrama) and the Mermelstein vs. > IHR case. > NEWATTAC.TXT 3468 09/02/93 "New Attack Against Faurisson and Rami in > Stockholm", from the July/August 1993 IHR > _Journal_. Stick-wielding Jewish thugs once > again violently attacked Revisionists, this > time wounding two policemen! > NEWREPUB.TXT 9538 01/01/93 A _New Republic_ article detailing the LIES > in the PBS "Liberators" special, which showed > a Black tank battalion "liberating" > Buchenwald. The unique thing about it is > that the _New Republic_ is very Zionist. > NONDEBAT.TXT 25572 12/16/93 Two articles on THE GREAT NON-DEBATE of 1989, > published in _Christian News_ (Feb. 27 and > March 13, 1989.) This "non-debate" was > pledged to be "The Debate of the Century" > by the Holocaustomaniac side, which failed > to show up, using feeble excuses! > NOTGUILT.TXT 115299 07/13/93 _Not Guilty at Nuremberg: The German Defense > Case_, by Carlos Porter. Very well written > and documented. > OAHCNSRS.TXT 11768 09/06/93 "Organization of American Historians Censors > the IHR", from the July/August 1993 IHR > _Journal_. This file also includes a list of > the IHR _Journal_'s Editorial Advisory > Committee members. > OAHREFLE.TXT 9499 09/06/93 "The Organization of American Historians: > Faithfully Reflecting Academic Standards", > from the July/August 1993 IHR _Journal_. > Written by Mark Weber. > PAVEDGOO.TXT 23062 06/25/93 Review of _PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS: The > Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary > America_, by Jared Taylor. Reviewed by > Charles Stanwood in the March/April 1993 IHR > _Journal_. > PENNSTAT.TXT 5769 09/12/93 "PENN STATE 'HOLOCAUST HISTORY' COURSE: A > LESSON IN IGNORANCE -- Professor Responds to > Revisionist Question By Calling Police", from > the September/October 1993 IHR _Journal_. > PIPERVID.TXT 8909 01/12/93 "The Video that Justifies Buying a Video > Player" -- New Documentary Video Torpedos > Battleship Auschwitz! "Gas Chambers" Suffer > Direct Hit! DECADES-old, CONTINUING > "Holocaust" LIES CLEARLY EXPOSED! Must see! > PLAQUES.TXT 1332 03/10/92 "Auschwitz Plaques Gone" -- _The Oregonian_, > 7/18/90, page A3. > POLISH.TXT 20919 03/10/92 Polish report supports Leuchter: the > Auschwitz "gas chambers" are fraudulent! > PRESPOLI.TXT 3822 03/10/92 Holocaust Revisionism in Presidential > Politics: Bush, Buchanan and Duke and > "Holocaust Denial". > PRESSAC1.TXT 101246 09/26/93 "Improvised Gas Chambers & Casual Gassings > at Auschwitz & Birkenau, According to J.-C. > Pressac (1989) -- Part I", by Robert > Faurisson, from the Spring 1991 IHR > _Journal_. [Part 1 of 2] > PRESSAC2.TXT 105132 10/02/93 "Improvised Gas Chambers & Casual Gassings at > Auschwitz & Birkenau According to J.-C. > Pressac (1989) -- Part II", by Robert > Faurisson, from the Summer 1991 IHR > _Journal_. [Part 2 of 2] > RAVENREV.TXT 14329 06/19/93 "Dramatic New Videotape Presentation Takes > Aim at Key Holocaust Claims -- Auschwitz > Museum Official Admits 'Gas Chamber' is > Postwar Reconstruction", by Greg Raven, from > the IHR _Journal_, March/April 1993. > REVMEDIA.TXT 61664 07/12/92 "More Media Attention for IHR and > Revisionism," plus the 2 university campus > newspaper ads calling for open debate on the > Holocaust issue! > SCROLLSO.TXT 4655 03/10/92 FORTY YEAR OLD BAN ON DEAD SEA SCROLLS > LIFTED, _IHR Newsletter_ #82, October 1991. > SCROLLSU.TXT 3232 03/10/92 An update on the situation with the Dead Sea > Scrolls, from the _IHR Newsletter_. (Soon > before the ban was lifted.) > SERBMYTH.TXT 4670 10/24/93 "A Request for Additional Information on the > Myth of the 'Gassing' of the Serbs in the > First World War", by Robert Faurisson, from > the Summer 1991 IHR _Journal_. The myth of > the "gassing" of the Jews during the Second > World War is only a recycling of this myth. > SEVENSIT.TXT 70129 10/16/93 "The Seven Auschwitz 'Gassing' Sites > According to J.C. Pressac", by Enrique Aynat, > from the Summer 1991 IHR _Journal_. > Translated by Tom Kerr. > SIMONLIE.ZIP 293669 10/22/93 YES, VIRGINIA: WIESENTHAL DOES LIE. "The > Sleight-of-Hand of Simon Wiesenthal", by Mark > Weber and Keith Stimely, from the Spring 1984 > IHR _Journal_. Includes two GIF files which > demonstrate this particular lie of Simon's. > SIMONWIE.TXT 19904 03/10/92 "SIMON WIESENTHAL: Bogus 'Nazi Hunter'", by > Mark Weber. > SOAPSCAM.TXT 40098 02/18/92 "RUB-A-DUB-DUB" Notes On the Jewish-Soap > Scam. > STARVEGE.TXT 4342 03/10/92 "Did the Americans starve to death German > POWs in camps like this?" > SUPPAPER.TXT 61826 06/15/93 "The Suppressed Eichmann and Goebbels > Papers", presented by British historian David > Irving at the Eleventh IHR Conference, > October 1992. Includes question & answer > session after. Very informative! > THEFRAUD.TXT 23404 11/22/93 THE HOLOCAUST FRAUD. Author of this essay is > unknown. I received it in the mail with no > name or address. Very informative essay. > THUGS.TXT 4272 03/10/92 Thugs Attack Revisionist Speaker [David Cole, > who is Jewish] at UCLA Meeting -- JDL > ["Jewish Defense League"] Hoodlums Break Up > Debate. JDL leader Irv Rubin (who has been > arrested on a charge of hiring a hit man to > kill someone else) even tried to push Cole > down a flight of stairs! > TRTHPREV.TXT 18904 01/19/93 REVIEW: Book-Length "Scholarly" Polemic Fails > to Discredit Leuchter -- _TRUTH PREVAILS: > Demolishing Holocaust Denial: The End of the > Leuchter Report_. (See LEUCVIND.TXT for a > thorough technical analysis.) > UNDRFIRE.TXT 17948 01/30/93 "The Wages of Apostasy: LIFE UNDER FIRE", by > David Irving. (Presented at the Eleventh IHR > Conference, October 1992). > VINDFORD.TXT 6043 09/20/93 "VINDICATION FOR DEMJANJUK", from the > September/October 1993 IHR _Journal_. > WIESEL-3.TXT 2281 09/12/93 "Holocaust Survivor's Stories Contradictory" > -- Nobel Peace Prize winner (and professional > "Holocaust survivor") Elie Wiesel is caught > telling 3 very contradictory stories about > which "death camp" he was liberated from! > ZUNDEL12.TXT 44451 02/04/92 The two THOUGHT CRIME TRIALS of Ernst Zundel > for publishing a revisionist version of the > "Holocaust". > ZUNDELWI.TXT 14507 10/27/92 "ZUNDEL WINS IN CANADA'S SUPREME COURT: > Victory for Free Speech and Revisionism; Now > Free, Zundel Counters New Attacks; > Vindication After Nine Years of Legal > Struggle", from the Oct. '92 _IHR Newsletter_ > > > ________________________________ > | | > | Media Control files available: | > |________________________________| > > > JPFOGUN.TXT 14440 03/22/92 Jewish pro-gun group AGREES with "WHO RUNS THE > MEDIA? The Alarming Facts" > MEDIARUN.TXT 28840 03/22/92 "WHO RUNS THE MEDIA? The Alarming Facts" > NEWHOUSE.TXT 3967 01/28/93 "The House of Newhouse" -- info. on one of > the Zionist/Jewish media giants that rule > America. Newhouse owns Portland's _The > Oregonian_, _This Week_, _The Downtowner_ > and many others. > WHORULES.TXT 31878 11/25/92 "WHO RULES AMERICA?" Must read! Shocking > facts! > > > ________________________________ > | | > | Miscellaneous files available: | > |________________________________| > > > BANFTP-L.TXT [updated often] List of all files available from Banished > CPU's FTP Mail Server. (The file you are > reading now.) > BANFILES.LST [updated daily] Banished CPU's master file list [ASCII form] > This is the list of all files that can be > downloaded directly from Banished CPU. As of > 12/15/93, this file was 462589 bytes in size. > Call 503-232-6566 (14.4k) to connect directly. > BANFILES.ZIP [updated daily] Banished CPU's master file list [ZIP'd] > As of 12/15/93, this file was 161581 bytes in > size. > PDXSBCPU.TXT 19125 10/31/93 "CYBER POST-IT NOTES", by Mitzi Waltz, > from _PDXS_ magazine, 9/27/93 issue. Quotes: > "It's midnight, and the line at Banished CPU > is still busy." "Politics, that other topic > banned at grandma's dinner table, is rarely > ignored on BBSes. Banished CPU ... probably > has the most wide-ranging discussions on the > subject in Portland. In fact, it may be the > only place where rabid white supremacists, > gays, knee-jerk liberals, anarchists, Ross > Perot supporters, and everyone in between have > regular conversations. Not necessarily *nice* > conversations, but at least people are > talking. Sysop Maynard and I will never > agree on politics but we agree that free > speech is a wonderful thing." > _____________________________________________________________________________ > > > Banished CPU supports Freedom of Speech! > ___________________________________________________________ > | | > | For 300-9600 bps (3 lines w/V.32) call: (503) 232-5783 | > | For 14400 bps (2 lines w/V.32bis) call: (503) 232-6566 | > |___________________________________________________________| > > Sysop: Maynard "the Main Nerd" > > [end of file] > > From flesh Tue Jan 11 19:55:01 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA04364; Tue, 11 Jan 94 19:54:53 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401120354.AA04364@wps.com> Subject: a simple guide to my remailer (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 19:54:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu, zorca@well.sf.ca.us, tjames@netcom.com, silicon@selway.umt.edu, tom.tomorrow@sfnet.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5963 Forwarded message: From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Tue Jan 11 02:32:28 1994 Message-Id: <199401111003.CAA14828@soda.berkeley.edu> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Cc: hh@soda.berkeley.edu Subject: a simple guide to my remailer X-Face: ',~+!HE.R$%j-|^4wwKT_3'ba=D?eqd*&w}IxMQz(ypiuwgm:O={9p^mn!'/Cx5)'(~-zIN ]Sg|a|$"#w\JSgs@`5E2cX|}@/ Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 02:03:27 -0800 From: Eric Hollander Here's the Official Guide to the hh remailer. Please post this wherever you think people will find it useful. ----- How to use the hh@soda.berkeley.edu Usenet poster and Anonymous Remailer by Eric Hollander This document describes some of the special features of the hh@soda.berkeley.edu remailer. Because this remailer is essentially just a modification of the standard Cypherpunk's Remailer, I recomend that you also read soda.berkeley.edu:/pub/cypherpunks/remailer/hal's.remailer.gz. = What does this remailer do? This remailer allows anyone who can send mail to post to Usenet newsgroups, and also to send mail to anyone else on the Internet. Both of these functions can be anonymous (the identity of the sender is hidden from the recipient) or non-anonymous (the identity of the sender is known to the recipient). = Why is this remailer different from the standard Cypherpunks remailers? The main difference between this remailer and the other Cypherpunk remailers is that this remailer allows posting to all Usenet newsgroups, either anonymously, or non-anonymously. It also has the regular remailer functions of forwarding mail, either anonymously or non-anonymously (nonymously?). The other minor difference is that this remailer adds a random time delay for anonymous mail and posting. = A note about header fields This remailer/poster looks at the header of the mail you send it to decide what to do. Some mail programs don't allow easy editting of the header. If your program doesn't allow editting of the header, you can still use the remailer. To do this, send mail in the normal way, but start your message like this: :: Anon-Post-To: rec.fish leaving no blank lines before the :: and a blank line after the header field to be inserted. The remailer will consider the line after the :: to be a part of the header. All of the instructions bellow can be used with actual header fields or the :: format. = How do I use this remailer to anonymously post to Usenet? Send mail to hh@soda.berkeley.edu with a header like this: To: hh@soda.berkeley.edu Anon-Post-To: rec.fish Subject: I flushed a fish on Friday On Friday, I did a terrible thing, so I'm posting this anonymously... This message will be posted to rec.fish, with nothing to indicate who was the original sender. Only the Subject field will be retained; everything else in the header will be discarded. = How do I post non-anonymously? Send mail like this: To: hh@soda.berkeley.edu Post-To: rec.fish Subject: flushing fish How despicable of you to flush a fish! This will be posted to rec.fish non-anonymously; the From and Subject fields will be retained in the post. = Crossposting To crosspost, simply list the newsgroups, separated by commas, with no spaces, like this: Anon-Post-To: rec.fish,alt.ketchup Note that excessive crossposting is an abuse of the net. Some people have to pay for their news, and they don't want to read "how to make money fast" in rec.fish. = Testing I recomend that you post test messages to make sure you are using the remailer properly. Please post these messages to the appropriate test groups (alt.test, rec.test, etc). Also, if you post non-anonymously to a test group, many sites will send you mail confirming that they have received the post. To avoid this, put the word "ignore" in the subject line. = Anonymous mail This remailer is capable of sending anonymous mail. To send mail to foo@bar.com, send a message like this: To: hh@soda.berkeley.edu Anon-Send-To: foo@bar.com Subject: Ronald Sukenick I think you should read something by Ronald Sukenick. and foo@bar.com will recieve the message, without knowing who sent it. = Non-anonymous mail forwarding This remailer supports non-anonymous mail forwarding. To use this feature, send mail like this: To: hh@soda.berkeley.edu Send-To: foo@bar.com Subject: you know who I am This mail is from me! = Testing mail Please test the anonymous remailer functions before you use it "for real" by sending mail to yourself or a friend. = Chaining, encryption, and other issues These features are discussed in detail in soda.berkeley.edu:/pub/cypherpunks/remailer/hal's.remailer.gz. While you're looking at that file, you might also want to check out PGP in /pub/cypherpunks/pgp. If you haven't installed PGP on your machine yet, you should try it out. This remailer doesn't yet support encryption, but it's coming soon. = Remailer abuse This remailer has been abused in the past, mostly by users hiding behind anonymity to harass other users. I will take steps to squish users who do this. Lets keep the net a friendly and productive place. = A note to ucb users This remailer allows posting to ucb.* newsgroups. = If you have other questions or problems send normal mail (without any of the above headers) to hh@soda.berkeley.edu. = Copyright This file is copyright 1994 Eric Hollander, all rights reserved. You are free to distribute this information in electronic format provided that the contents are unchanged and this copyright notice remains attached. = Disclaimer This remailer is not endorsed in any way by the University of California. I, Eric Hollander, take no responsibility for the content of posts or messages, and I take no responsibility for the consequences of using my remailer. For example, if you post anonymously, and someone manages to trace it back to you, I am not responsible. From flesh Tue Jan 11 23:03:00 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA05820; Tue, 11 Jan 94 23:02:55 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401120702.AA05820@wps.com> Subject: the hacker crackdown To: shit-list Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 23:02:54 -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: 594 Hi all. If you haven't tried out the local gopher here (accessable by typing gopher wps.com) you may want to give it a shot. I've included several things that I hope everyone finds interesting. In the past couple of days, I've forwarded a message concerning Bruce Sterling's book 'The Hacker Crackdown.' If you haven't read it, it's really a well reasearched book, and fairly non-biased. Sterling has seen fit to release it onto those whom have computer internet access. You can read it, by accessing the electronic-universe section, and choosing the appropriate catagory. Enjoy! From flesh Wed Jan 12 15:57:41 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA00800; Wed, 12 Jan 94 15:57:31 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401122357.AA00800@wps.com> Subject: Today's Cyber-Sleaze Report (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 15:57:31 -0800 (PST) Cc: cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3447 Forwarded message: From cyber-sleaze@mtv.com Wed Jan 12 00:16:27 1994 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 03:16:09 -0500 Message-Id: <199401120503.AA06166@mtv.com> Errors-To: curryco@panix.com Reply-To: cyber-sleaze@mtv.com Originator: cyber-sleaze@mtv.com Sender: cyber-sleaze@mtv.com Precedence: bulk From: web@mtv.com (The CSLeaze List) To: flesh@fido.wps.com Subject: Today's Cyber-Sleaze Report X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0a -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Status: Note:If you no longer wish to receive Cyber Sleaze, send mail to listproc@mtv.com with the message: unsubscribe CYBER-SLEAZE THE CYBER SLEAZE REPORT Wednesday January 12, 1994 ========================================================================== The following materials are copyrighted by CurryCo Ltd. and may not be re-distributed or Duplicated for any other means than personal entertainment. Failure is subject to prosecution. ========================================================================== In an exclusive bit of rather "twisted" news, it seens that MICHAEL HUTCHENCE, INXS frontman, gets a kick out of playing with his nipples. He told me, "I've got really sensitive nipples and I'm quite fixated on them. "They're always erect. Never knowingly limp." Hey, thank god it's only his nips! Two nine-year-old twins from Virginia are defending MICHAEL JACKSON in song. The twins, who call themselves BACK 2 BACK, will release a song supporting Jackson on their debut album, which is due in February. The song includes the lines "This is dedicated to you Michael from all the kids throughout the world. We love you! Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael." BILL WYMAN is fast becoming an English country squire after quitting the ROLLING STONES last year. Wyman lives in Gedding Hall, an imposing 15th century moated mansion in Suffolk, England. Up until now the Bill has only had 30 acres of surrounding land. But he has just snapped up another 115 acres of land. Only thing missing now are the peasants. In potentially devestating new for BROOKE SHIELDS, The Australian who she dated during her down under tour has someone else - just four months after swearing his love for Brooke. The culprit is none other than my old friend and MTV Australia VJ RICHARD WILKINS. The deal is that when Brooke left Australia to return home to America, Richard hitched up again with his long time girlfriend MICHELLE BURKE, 32. Guests at their wedding including INXS's TIM FARRISS. Congrats to Richard, and bummer for Brooke. I've just learned that rock star ADAM CLAYTON is planning an unusual wedding present for fiancee NAOMI CAMPBELL - he's going to transform her from a supermodel into a pop star. Clayton decided to use the music muscle of his group U2 to help Campbell top the charts after she sang for him in private. He hopes her album will be released soon after their wedding day on Valentine's Day in February. But, it seems that Clayton is having problems booking a studio. U2's studio in Dublin is booked in January, and the couple are searching for another so that Campbell can rush out the wedding album. Hey guys, if the LP flops, is the wedding off?? ========================================================================== Cyber-Sleaze is copyright 1993 by CurryCo Ltd. _______________________________________________________________________________ Cyber Sleaze, Adam Curry From flesh Wed Jan 12 19:54:07 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA00556; Wed, 12 Jan 94 19:53:55 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401130353.AA00556@wps.com> Subject: Pigskin turns porn on playback To: shit-list Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 19:53:54 -0800 (PST) Cc: zorca@well.sf.ca.us X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1828 Forwarded message: From flesh Wed Jan 5 22:04:50 1994 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 22:04:49 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401060604.AA04699@wps.com> To: flesh@wps.com Subject: Pigskin turns porn on playback X-Status: By KAREN MARTIN Managing Editor A video replay of TechUs Sept. 4 game at Tennessee on Louisiana Cablevision Channel 38 in Monroe last Thursday night revealed a bit more than just pigskin. The game film, which is produced at Tech, was shown with about 10 minutes of an explicit pornographic video dubbed at the end. Athletic Director Jerry Stovall issued a statement about the incident, but refused to comment further. RTech has learned that some objectionable material ran following completion of its playback of the Tennessee game on Louisiana Cablevision Thursday night, and the university joins Louisiana Cablevision in a public apology for this inexcusable mistake,S Stovall said. He added that RMeasures have been taken to insure that this type of mistake will never occur again.S Cablevision replays TechUs games at 8 p.m. every Thursday on Channel 38 in Monroe. The game film for Sept. 4 ran about 90 minutes, followed by about two minutes of dead time, then approximately 10 minutes of pornography. CablevisionUs Steve Wentworth said the tape is played by automation, therefore it ran until the end. Ron Phillips, Cablevision general manager said, RWhen we received the tape, thatUs the way we received it,S Approximately 50 people called Cablevision to complain or even inquire about other viewings of the tape. Tech President Dan Reneau also expressed his concern about the video replay. It Rwas a terribly regrettable incident...something happened and we need to find out what,S he said. RThatUs not our athletic department, thatUs not our team and thatUs not Tech,S Reneau said. From tomj Thu Jan 13 18:58:13 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA04725; Thu, 13 Jan 94 18:56:18 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9401140256.AA04725@wps.com> Subject: Ovett harrassment (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 18:56:17 -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: 3986 Forwarded message: From verve@well.sf.ca.us Thu Jan 13 18:52:05 1994 From: "Eric S. Theise" Message-Id: <199401140251.SAA12743@well.sf.ca.us> Subject: Ovett harrassment To: tat@well.sf.ca.us (Janet E. Harrison), raemo@well.sf.ca.us (Ray Russ), rogerk@queernet.org, tomj@wps.com, patfinn@unm.edu Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 18:51:44 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 3452 Hi All; Pauline Oliveros asked me to forward this press release to people who might help get the word out. Hope you don't mind me sending it on to you. I've posted it here in the WELL's news conference. Thanks, Eric -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 10, 1994 For more information, Contact: Christine Ahern (914) 658-3645 COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS TERRORIZED BY RIGHT WING ULSTER COUNTY RESIDENTS RESPOND RENO URGED TO TAKE ACTION Ovett, MS Brenda and Wanda Henson, longtime community organizers in southern Mississippi are currently the target of a terrorizing campaign to throw them off their land. Incidents include death threats, bomb threats, shots fired at their land, and other human rights violations brought on by right wing church related groups in the area. A call for support has been issued as well as a call for protection from U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. Two Ulster County residents will travel to Ovett to aid in the campaign to help them remain on their land. The harassment is both homophobic and racist. The Hensons are lesbians who have been organizing the Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival in Gulfport, MS for the last six years. They bought their 120 acre Ovett farm, which they named Camp Sister Spirit, in July. Plans for the land include holding the 7th annual Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival, and creating a year round educational and cultural center. Their daughter, Andrea Gibbs, has been active in prison reform. While working as a corrections officer, Gibbs exposed brutality against inmates. A statewide investigation followed, resulting in the closure of four county jails, including the facility in Jones County where the Hensons and Gibbs reside. Local right wing churches and townspeople are organizing against these women. They have called two meetings, chaired by the town sheriff, to strategize ways to remove them from their land. Two hundred and fifty people attended a December 6 meeting. An early January meeting drew four hundred including a film crew from the television news show 20/20. In addition to death threats, fire bomb threats, shots fired onto their property, and armed trespassers found on their land, some local businesses have refused them service. Ulster County residents Pat Humphries and Gale McGovern are traveling to Ovett on January 12. They will be a part of a group of people arriving at the farm to help the Hensons in their struggle to remain on their land and protect their civil rights. Humphries is a political singer and songwriter whose work focuses on a variety of social justice issues. McGovern is a political organizer well known in Ulster County for her work to encourage the county legislature to create a human rights law that would protect people on the basis of sexual orientation. The situation in Ovett has received some national media attention from National Public Radio, The New York Times, and Newsweek . The Hensons have also appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and a 20/20 segment will air later this month. There will be a local rally and benefit concert on February 3, 1994 at a location to be announced. People are urged to write or call Janet Reno (202) 514-2001 to request federal intervention in this situation. -- Eric S. Theise P.O. Box 460177, San Francisco, CA 94146.0177 Internet Domain Editor, Millennium Whole Earth Catalog The WELL: internet, matrix, & news conference host + gophermeister -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Thu Jan 13 20:25:09 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA05203; Thu, 13 Jan 94 20:25:06 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9401140425.AA05203@wps.com> Subject: TV: Nova & Crypto (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 20:25:05 -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: 1225 Forwared from flesh/from cypherpunks. If you were curious about the PGP and cryptographical stuff mentioned occasionally in the press and net, but not curious enough to jump in and ask these idiots to explain what they're talking about in plain language, likely the TV show will cover that. It is actually an intersting subject... > Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 21:14:15 CST > From: Karl Lui Barrus > To: cypherpunks@toad.com > Subject: TV: Nova & Crypto > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Cypherpunks, > > On a different note, I see that the NOVA episode on Tuesday the 25th > of January is supposed to cover cryptography. It looks like > historical stuff (Zimmerman note, Enigma, Purple, William Friedman, > etc.) and may not cover any "current" issues :-) > > But it should be interesting. > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.3a > > iQCVAgUBLTYN1oOA7OpLWtYzAQGemwP/b+cxMmxlIZatbOC9/6l/sBWu+RhXz4Gf > hTsoChT99JT70lAsORVMd95m75KTy4jtxQrr7YXGrGKmCsDq95UOkDg9jSDcawlv > kl6Yai16Yc9ikE/YjnPZCxSu62OvPxYnpRfhUPGe9qxkFkex8TlZ7SE3UFcMr2WR > s66A0C1/+Fo= > =AKuN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From flesh Sat Jan 15 15:50:47 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA13196; Sat, 15 Jan 94 15:50:39 -0800 Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 15:50:39 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401152350.AA13196@wps.com> To: shit-list Subject: Contra.Costa.Times.slander.local.bay.area.bbs.systems. This article appeared as the FRONT PAGE story in the July 28,1993 issue of The Contra Costa Times. Full of distortions and humorous leaps of logic, I think you'll find it as amusing as I did. Can you say "slow news day?" Biffnix ========================================================================== MODEM OPERANDI: Tips on crime go on-line by: Michael Liedtke staff writer for the Contra Costa Times Wednesday, July 28, 1993 Tips on how to commit fraud, murder and other mayhem are just a phone call away in the Bay Area, courtesy of rabble-rousing electronic bulletin boards that turn the personal computer into a clearinghouse for crime. Using the First Amendment as a legal shield, a group of electronic bulletin boards in the Bay Area has created an information network providing criminal insights to anyone with a phone, personal computer and modem. Essentially, these computer forums, known as bulletin board services, are electronic libraries. While some computer bulletin boards are limited to paying subscribers, the rebel network distributing criminal expertise is open to everyone, free of charge. Most of the bulletin board files can be fetched over phone lines and brought into the caller's home. In turn, callers to the bulletin boards are encouraged to send in files, so the systems can accumulate advice from experts and novices. More than 45,000 computer users have called an underground Bay Area bulletin board, known as "Lies Unlimited," that offers a roguish gallery of information. File titles include: o "How to Make Your Own Valid American Express Card" o "How to Rob a Bank" o "How to Break Into Houses" o "Stealing Toyotas and What to Do With Them" o "Simple Way to Make a Car Go BOOM!" o "Twenty-two Ways to Kill" The bulletin boards also have other categories offering more-mainstream advice and entertainment, but they appear to be primarily interested in promoting disorder. In a self-description appearing on a bulletin board review, Lies Unlimited said it tries to focus "on political realities. The point being that this reality is created by consensus, and the only way to change the reality is to change the consensus." Lies Unlimited plans to shut down today and reopen next month after the system operator, listed as Mick Freen, moves from South San Francisco, to Salt Lake City. Mischievous information similar to Lies Unlimited's archives remains available on several other Bay Area bulletin boards, including a Walnut Creek-based system known as "And the Temple of the Screaming Electron." Based on computer files retrieved by the Times, other contributors in this unorthodox network include "My Dog Bit Jesus" in Berkeley, "realitycheck," in Albany, "Burn This Flag" in San Jose and "The New Dork Sublime" in San Francisco. Among them, the bulletin boards offer hundreds of files providing instructions on credit card fraud, money laundering, mail fraud, counterfeiting, drug smuggling, cable-tv theft, bomb-making and murder. The Times left electronic messages on several of those bulletin boards seeking interviews with the system operators. None of the operators responded by late Tuesday. Virtually anyone who understands how to use a computer and modem can tap into the rogue bulletin boards, if they have the phone numbers. The boards allow callers to create their own logons and passwords, opening the door for kids to get into the system. Based on their content, the bulletin boards appear to be particularly popular among teen-agers. "This shows why people need to be much more aware of what kids are doing with their computers," said Hans Von Braun, a computer security expert who works for San Francisco-based Comsec. One bulletin board, Burn This Flag, requires callers to fill out an application before gaining access to an adults-only section that contains files describing "bizarre sexual behavior." But in a written message, Burn This Flag's system operator, known as "Zardoz," acknowledges there is no foolproof way to ensure all users of the adult section are at least 18. The Times isn't publishing the phone numbers of the rebel bulletin boards as a children's safeguard. The bulletin boards remain open by straddling a fine line between the legal definitions of free speech and criminal behavior. Under First Amendment rights guaranteeing free speech, the law allows the bulletin boards to serve as criminal primers, as long as the advice is limited to generic instructions. Essentially, it's legal for individuals to discuss how to commit a crime as long as they don't solicit or encourage the commission of a crime. "We're aware of these types of bulletin boards," said Rick Smith, an FBI spokesman in San Francisco. "But to shut them down, you From flesh Sat Jan 15 15:52:06 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA13218; Sat, 15 Jan 94 15:51:59 -0800 Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 15:51:59 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401152351.AA13218@wps.com> To: shit-list Subject: Chicago.paper.slams.CC.Times.for.biased.reporting Don't throw out the computer with the crime Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY September 10, 1993 By: Dick Adler Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: PERSPECTIVE Page: 23 Word Count: 1,137 MEMO: Dick Adler, a Los Angeles writer, editor, reviewer and electronic publisher, is working on a book called "TALKING WITH STRANGERS: On the Frontier of Computer Communications." TEXT: What is there about the words "computer" and "crime" in the same sentence that makes even the coolest of media heads bubble and boil over? Although more and more of us use computers in our daily lives, is it because we have so little idea of how or why they work that we give them magical, even demonic powers? Does the ghost of HAL-the rebellious computer in the film "2001"-still hover over us, making us worry about losing control? Suppose you're a reporter for a small daily newspaper. You use a computer to write and edit your stories, and you even have a modem that connects you by telephone to an on-line information service such as Prodigy or CompuServe. But you haven't really had any adventures out there in the electronic world known as Cyberspace: You have never called a local bulletin board or tried to understand the mysteries of the giant egghead system known as the Internet. Suppose it's a slow news day, and you get a call from a computer security specialist with a hot tip. Did you know that by dialing a local number, computer users of any age in this very area can get information on all sorts of criminal activities, from bomb-making to credit card fraud? Is this a great story, or what? That's what happened recently to reporter Michael Liedtke of the Contra Costa Times. Checking out a tip about a loose confederation of bulletin boards called NIRVANANet in the San Francisco Bay area, Liedtke must have heard those Pulitzer judges humming in the background as he typed his savage yet bouncy indictment. "Tips on how to commit fraud, murder and other mayhem are just a phone call away in the Bay Area, courtesy of rabble-rousing electronic bulletin boards that turn the personal computer into a clearinghouse for crime," he began. "More than 45,000 computer users have called an underground Bay Area bulletin board, known as 'Lies Unlimited,' (one of the NIRVANANet members) that offers a roguish gallery of information. File titles include: 'How to Make Your Own Valid American Express Card,' 'How to Rob a Bank,' 'How to Break Into Houses,' 'Stealing Toyotas and What to Do With Them,' 'Simple Way to Make a Car Go BOOM!' and 'Twenty-two Ways to Kill.' " Strong stuff. The trouble-as the people who run the bulletin boards in question plus many hundreds of their supporters soon pointed out-was that every single one of the files listed by Liedtke was already freely available in books (such as "The Anarchist's Cook Book") at local libraries and bookstores. Had the tipster mentioned that, the reporter would probably have stifled a yawn and written about something else. But those devil words " computer" and "crime" in conjunction pushed him over the edge. Recently in the Chicago area, a man who operated a computer bulletin board in Des Plaines was indicted for allowing a 12-year-old Chicago boy access to pornographic material in a supposedly "adults-only" section of the board. The story as depicted in the media conjured up a vivid picture of pre-teen computer nerds blithely downloading material that would make the owner of an adult book-and-video store either blanch or turn green with envy. Without getting anywhere near that briarpatch of 1st Amendment rights vs. the flat-out illegality of supplying pornography to minors, at least two points might be made here. First, it is not as easy as the media make it sound for computer users of any age to get access to adult material, because operators of bulletin board systems know they can go to jail and/or lose all their expensive equipment if convicted of supplying pornography to minors. So they've set up the same kind of checks-signed statements of age, driver's license photographs, credit card payment, passwords-that magazine publishers and video rental stores use. These checks aren't foolproof, of course, but any computer-smart 12-year-old who can crack a bulletin board's moderately elaborate security can also probably figure out some other way to see dirty pictures and movies. Second, the pornography available on computer bulletin boards is exactly the same stuff to be found at print and video outlets. Just because it comes through a computer doesn't give it any special powers of "virtual reality" or high quality. In fact, even the best animated graphics on From flesh Sun Jan 16 21:46:49 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA07739; Sun, 16 Jan 94 21:46:34 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401170546.AA07739@wps.com> Subject: Humor! (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 21:46:33 -0800 (PST) Cc: cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu, zorca@well.sf.ca.us, bat@cyberden.sf.ca.us, horus@netcom.com, tom@tatertot.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 600 Got this off the cypherpunks list a while ago. Thought I'd share sorry, folks. just couldn`t pass up the chance tp pass this along. > From: strnlght@netcom.com > Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk > Subject: (none) > Date: 4 Jan 94 02:41:56 GMT > > > __________________ > ---- | | |-\_ > ----- | | | |_\ \ O / <---Me > ---- | |_| | | > ^^oo^^^^^^^^^oo^^^ o^^o^ _/ \_ > -- > David Sternlight When the mouse laughs at the cat, > there is a hole nearby.--Nigerian Proverb From flesh Mon Jan 17 21:44:31 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA12664; Mon, 17 Jan 94 21:44:22 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401180544.AA12664@wps.com> Subject: A game for the 90's To: shit-list Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 21:44:21 -0800 (PST) Cc: cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu, zorca@well.sf.ca.us, tom@tatertot.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2571 This was taken fro Odyssey. One of the trashiest magazine in San Francisco. Pick up a copy if you can.... MUNI MAYHEM: A GAME FOR OUR 90'S By Todd Rosin Maybe it was that afternoon back in 1973 when I played Mystery Date with the cute guy next door - or maybe it was that crazed naked Monopoly match at the frat house - but somthing along the way made me a major game player. Now I don't mean the kind of game my freind plays where I say I think and he goes over and introduces himself. I mean fun games. The kind of games where the winner and loser can both admit that they had fun and go have a cup of coffee or get in a sling or whatever. In this happy spirit, I've invented MUNI MAYHEM. I don't have all day to explain the rules so I kept it simple. Here goes: just xerox (or copy) this page and hand it out to your freinds/roomates/tricks/fellow employees/needle exchange social worker, et al, before you go to work to or from muni. Then every time something listed on the page occurs, you check it off and get that many points. (It works best, obviously, if you have people playing on different lines.) The most points wins. Remember, you're on the honor system. Any questions? Too bad! Have fun! MUNI MAYHEM INCIDENT POINTS -------- ------ __1. Train makes unexplained stop in empty tunnel. 5 __2. Someone pulls "stop request" cord on train 5 for Embarcadero. __3. Deafening "ping" sound before announcment. 5 __4. Fat person on bus or train takes up two seats. 5 __5. Drunks argue pointlessly in the back. 10 __6. Cute guy (or girl) sits next to you. 10 __7. Crazed bum rants about 60's social issues as 15 if they ever mattered. __8. Greasy trust fund kid stinks up the whole bus 20 with patchouli oil. __9. Owl service full of menacing thugs. 20 __10. Wrong station announced. You get off. 25 __11. Breakdown! 40 minute wait. 25 __12. Fast Pass expired! Driver doesn't care. 25 __13. Bus power pole slip off wires. 25 __14. Wet graffiti ruins your clothes. 30 __15. Train slams on brakes, at least three old 30 ladies fall down. __16. While boarding the train, you're swept away 30 in a torrent of Chinese ladies. __17. Stink-o! Mayor Jordan is on your bus. Loose 50 __18. A Falcon star is on your bus! 50 __19. Bus drives past your stop. 50 __20. Someone gives their seat to a lady 100 BONUS QUESTION __21. Fuck muni. You've got a car. 500 TOTAL SCORE ______ From tomj Thu Jan 20 12:35:09 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA02066; Thu, 20 Jan 94 12:34:53 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9401202034.AA02066@wps.com> Subject: zines (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 12:34:53 -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: 45527 Forwarded message: From pozar@kumr.lns.com Thu Jan 20 08:11:02 1994 Message-Id: From: pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar) Subject: zines To: tomj@wps.com Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 08:10:34 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text Content-Length: 45171 Article: 14133 of alt.internet.services From: johnl@netcom.com (John Labovitz) Newsgroups: alt.zines,alt.etext,misc.writing,rec.mag,alt.internet.services,alt.answers,misc.answers,rec.answers,news.answers Subject: Zines on the Internet Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: 17 Jan 1994 00:01:04 -0500 Organization: none Lines: 1171 Sender: faqserv@security.ov.com Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu Expires: 21 Feb 1994 05:00:10 GMT Message-ID: Reply-To: johnl@netcom.com (John Labovitz) NNTP-Posting-Host: pad-thai.aktis.com X-Last-Updated: 1993/12/04 Archive-name: writing/zines Last-modifed: 93/11/9 (This document has been brought to you in part by CRAM. See the bottom for more information, including instructions on how to obtain updates.) === This is a summary of electronically-accessible zines. The format of this document should be fairly self-explanatory. In most cases, descriptions are excerpted from the masthead of the zine listed. RECENT CHANGES TO THIS LIST Additions: Bad Subjects Bits and Bytes Online Chaos Corner Dogwood Blossoms The Neon Gargoyle Gazette Slither The Trincoll Journal Twilight Zone Changes: Cousins: corrected FTP entry DargonZine: added USENET entry FactSheetFive-Electric: changed phone number FSFNet: corrected editor's e-mail address; added explanation InterText: added WWW & GEnie entries ADMINISTRIVIA If you have any additions, deletions, or changes to this list, please email them to johnl@netcom.com. A notice about new editions of this list is posted to the following mailing lists: Net_Info@gibbs.oit.unc.edu ZINES-L@uriacc.uri.edu The full text is posted to the following USENET newsgroups: alt.zines alt.etext misc.writing rec.mag alt.internet.services It can also be obtained via anonymous FTP from netcom.com as "/pub/johnl/zines/e-zine-list", via gopher at gopher.well.sf.ca.us and etext.archive.umich.edu, and via email from me (johnl@netcom.com). If you publish an e-zine, or know someone who does, please send a copy to me and I'll add the relevant info to this database. Comments, suggestions, changes, deletions, etc., are welcomed and encouraged. WHAT IS A "ZINE"? For those of you not acquainted with the zine world, "zine" is short for either "fanzine" or "magazine," depending on your point of view. Zines are generally produced by one person or a small group of people, done often for fun or personal reasons, and tend to be irreverent, bizarre, and/or esoteric. Zines are not "mainstream" publications -- they generally do not contain advertisements (except, sometimes, advertisements for other zines), do not have a large subscriber base, and are generally not produced to make a profit. FORMATS Most e-zines listed here are in standard ASCII text format, which you can read on just about any computer or terminal, and print on any printer. A few are available in PostScript for printing on a laser printer (or viewing on-screen if you have a PostScript interpreter in your window system). A small number are available in some system-specific format (i.e., Macintosh HyperCard). HOW DO I GET THE E-ZINES? I have listed the various methods of access for each particular e-zine. Briefly, I use the following: FTP -- File Transfer Protocol Only accessible if you are directly on the Internet, or know of an FTP-mail server (I don't). The host/pathname is given in the form (host:path) that certain FTPs (like NCFTP) can use directly; otherwise, you'd probably type "ftp host" and then "cd path" or some such. All FTP sites listed accept anonymous logins (use "ftp" as username and your email address as password). E-Mail -- Electronic Mail You can usually request current or back issues via this address. Sometimes a site will run a mail server that automates some of this work. Instructions are listed, if applicable. Usenet -- Usenet News Only accessible if your site carries the specific Usenet group. Gopher Only accessible if your site is directly on the Internet. Try typing "gopher". If it works, you have a gopher client, and can usually type "gopher host". WWW -- World Wide Web Only accessible if your site is directly on the Internet, and supports a WWW-compatible hypertext browser. Current browsers include www (ASCII line mode), lynx (ASCII full-screen mode), xmosaic (X Windows), Mac Mosaic (Macintosh), PC Mosaic (PC), Cello (PC), and probably a few others. Postal Last resort, or point of contact for zines that have paper editions. Phone Why? I dunno; because it was there. CompuServe You know, that out-dated system that charges ridiculous rates. Other BBSes and other on-line systems the zine resides on. SYSTEMS ARCHIVING E-ZINES The following are sites that archive e-zines. Many of them are primary archive points for e-zines in this list. FTP: ftp.eff.org etext.archive.umich.edu ftp.cic.net quartz.rutgers.edu ftp.msen.com ftp.halcyon.com world.std.com netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines nigel.msen.com:/pub/newsletters grind.isca.uiowa.edu:/info/journals nic.cic.net:pub/nircomm/gopher/e-serials Gopher: gopher.eff.org etext.archive.umich.edu (mirrors all FTPable files) gopher.cic.net gopher.msen.com gopher.well.sf.ca.us world.std.com gopher.unt.edu THE E-ZINES Albert Hofmann's Strange Mistake "A hypertext 'zine commemorating the 50th anniversary of the accidental discovery of LSD, 16 April, 1943. The document contains archives by authorities from Albert Hofmann to Abbie Hoffman, hypertext fac/tion on CIA-sponsored acid tests, and testimonials solicited from users all over the world." Editor(s): Bobby Rabyd Format: Storyspace (Macintosh hypertext application) FTP: brownvm.brown.edu:/pub/bobby_rabyd/ The Amateur Computerist Editor(s): Ronda Hauben or Michael Hauben Format: ASCII text FTP: wuarchive.wustl.edu:/doc/misc/acn E-Mail: or Usenet: alt.amateur-comp Postal: R. Hauben, P.O. Box 4344, Dearborn, MI 48126, USA Arm The Spirit "Arm The Spirit is a anti-imperialist/autonomist collective that disseminates information about liberation struggles in advanced capitalist countries and in the so-called 'Third World.' Our focus is on armed struggle and other forms of militant resistance but we do not limit ourselves to this. In Arm The Spirit you can find news on political prisoners in North America and Europe, information on the struggles of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, communiques from guerrilla groups, debate and discussion on armed struggle and much more. We also attempt to cover anti-colonial national liberation struggles in Kurdistan, Puerto Rico, Euskadi and elsewhere." Editor(s): Autonome Forum Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Politics/Arm.the.Spirit Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu gopher.well.sf.ca.us E-Mail: aforum@moose.uvm.edu, subject: "ATS: e-mail request" Postal: Arm The Spirit, c/o Wild Seed Press, POB 57584, Jackson Stn., Hamilton, Ontario, L8P 4X3, Canada Arm The Spirit, c/o Autonome Forum, POB 1242, Burlington, VT 05402-1242, USA Phone: +1 416 527 2419 (FAX for Canadian group) Armadillo Culture "Being the excremeditation of a hyperactive armadillo's activities, opinions, and other stuff..." Editor(s): Steve Okay Format: ASCII text Armadillo.Culture Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Armadillo Culture, 2857 Foxmill Rd. Herndon, VA 22071, USA ART COM "An online magazine forum dedicated to the interface of contemporary art and new communication technologies." Editor(s): Carl Eugene Loeffler Format: ASCII text Usenet: alt.artcom Postal: ART COM, POB 193123 Rincon, San Francisco, CA 94119-3123, USA Phone: +1 415 431 7524 (voice), +1 415 431 7841 (fax) Other: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL): ART COM Electronic Network (ACEN) Athene "The online magazine of amateur creative writing." Editor(s): Jim McCabe Format: ASCII text PostScript FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Literary/Athene network.ucsd.edu: /intertext/Athene Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu NOTE: Athene became defunct in 1989. Intertext is its immediate successor. Bad Subjects "Bad Subjects is intended to promote radical thinking and public education about the political implications of everyday life. We offer a forum for rethinking American "progressive" or "leftist" politics. We invite you to join us and participate in all aspects of Bad Subjects. Recent and upcoming issues of Bad Subjects feature articles on malls, _Beverly Hills 90210_, poetry slams, popular music, and the culture of addiction." Editor(s): The Bad Subjects Collective Format: ASCII text Gopher: gopher-registry.berkeley.edu Bits and Bytes Online "An electronic newsletter for text-based life-forms, published irregularly, 2 or 3 times a month." Editor(s): Jay Machado Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.dana.edu:/periodic Gopher: gopher.law.cornell.edu:Discussions and Listserv archives/Teknoids gopher.dana.edu:Electronic Journals Other: America Online: in telecom files area Compuserve: telecom forum library Postal: 1529 Dogwood Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003, USA Phone: +1 609 795 0998 (evenings) BLINK "BLINK would like to be a forum for the issues surrounding the intersection of consciousness and technology. This is our best defense against postmodern angst: To critically look at and anticipate the cultural and social changes spurred by the rapid development of technology." Editor(s): Justin Kerr Joe Germuska (managing editor) Danny Dunlavy (chiphead) Jake Eldridge (assistant editor) Format: ASCII text FTP: blink.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/blink Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us WWW: http://www.acns.nwu.edu/blink/ Chaos Control "Focusing on electronic music. Chaos Control is published bi-monthly and features interviews with both major and underground acts." Editor(s): Bob Gourley Format: ASCII text Macintosh Hypercard Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Other: America Online Postal: $5 to Bob Gourley, 3 Greenville Dr., Barrington, RI 02806, USA Chaos Corner Editor(s): Robert D. Cowles Format: ASCII text FTP: pelican.cit.cornell.edu:/pub E-Mail: chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu Computer Underground Digest "An open forum dedicated to sharing information among computerists and to the presentation and debate of diverse views." Editor(s): Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.eff.org:/pub/cud etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/CuD/cud halcyon.com:/pub/mirror/cud aql.gatech.edu;/pub/eff/cud ftp.ee.mu.oz.au:/pub/text/CuD (Australia) nic.funet.fi:pub/doc/cud (Finland) ftp.warwick.ac.uk:pub/cud (United Kingdom) Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu gopher.cic.net Postal: Jim Thomas, Department of Sociology, NIU, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA Phone: +1 815 753 0303 (voice), +1 815 753 6302 (fax) Usenet: comp.society.cu-digest CompuServe: DL0 and DL4 of the IBMBBS SIG; DL1 of LAWSIG; DL1 of TELECOM Other: GEnie: PF*NPC RT libraries; VIRUS/SECURITY library America Online: PC Telecom forum under "computing newsletters" Delphi: General Discussion database of the Internet SIG PC-EXEC BBS (+1 414 789 4210) Rune Stone BBS (IIRG WHQ) (+1 203 832 8441) NUP:Conspiracy RIPCO BBS (+1 312 528 5020) via Fidonet File Request from 1:11/70 ComNet in LUXEMBOURG BBS (+352 466893) Bits against the Empire BBS (+39 461 980493) (Italy) CORE "CORE is an electronic journal of poetry, fiction, essays, and criticsm." Editor(s): Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.eff.org:/pub/journals etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Literary/CORE_Zine Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Cousins "A place for the Witches, pagans, nature spirits, fey-folk, and assorted elder kin of Sherwood to share ideas, challenges, dreams, and projects, and to stir up a little magic of our own." Editor(s): Susan Gavula Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Cousins Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu CPU: Working in the Computer Industry "Dedicated to sharing information among workers in the computer industry. CPU is a project of the 'Working in the Computer Industry' working group of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility / Berkeley Chapter." Editor(s): Michael Stack Jim Davis Format: ASCII text E-mail: listserv@cpsr.org (with a single line in the body of the message: "SUBSCRIBE CPSR-CPU ") FTP: cpsr.org:/cpsr/work etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/CPSR/work Phone: +1 510 601 6740, Postal: PO Box 3181, Oakland, CA 94609, USA Crash "A guide to traveling through the underground. Alternative travel stories, hints, and tips." Editor(s): John Labovitz Miles Poindexter Nigel French Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/crash Postal: Crash, 519 Castro #7, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA Cropduster "Cropduster revolves, as perhaps everything does, around the substance that one calls pop-culture. With various jargon thrown around including: post-modernism, nihilism, etc. in an attempt for one generation to understand the next, people forget what the essence of pop-culture really is -- a collection of somewhat useless artifacts which are given exceptional value by groups of people. What we hope to show is not the trends but rather the idols of pop-culture. We hope to convey the simplicity of everyday life through the icons which lead generation upon generation onwards." Editor(s): Steven Meece Chris Woodill FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Cropduster Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu:/Zines/Cropduster/ Postal: 79 O'Hara Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6K 2R3, Canada CTHEORY -- Virtual Review of Books for Post-Modern Theory "CTHEORY is a new international, electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture. Reviews are posted monthly of key books in contemporary discourse as well as theorisations of major 'event-scenes' in the mediascape. Editors and contributors include: Kathy Acker, Jean Baudrillard, Bruce Sterling, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Deena and Michael Weinstein. CTHEORY will also offer the possibility of interactive discussions among its subscribers in the electronic theory 'sim-posium/salon.'" Editor(s): Anastassia Khouri St-Pierre Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu Gopher: gopher.cic.net etext.archive.umich.edu E-Mail: LISTSERV@VM1.MCGILL.CA with text body: "SUBSCRIBE CTHEORY " Cyberspace Vanguard "News and Views of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Universe" Editor(s): TJ Goldstein Sarah Alexander, Administrator Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Sci_Fiction/Cyberspace.Vanguard Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu gopher.well.sf.ca.us E-Mail: cn577@cleveland.freenet.edu Cyberspace Vanguard@1:157/564 (FidoNet) CVANGUARD (Delphi) Postal: Cyberspace Vanguard, POB 25704, Garfield Heights, OH 44125, USA Other: Cleveland Freenet FIDONET: via file request from 1:157/200 DargonZine -- The Magazine of the Dargon Project "DargonZine is an electronic magazine printing stories written for the Dargon Project, a shared-world anthology similar to (and inspired by) Robert Asprin's Thieves' World anthologies, created by David "Orny" Liscomb in his now retired magazine, FSFNet. The Dargon Project centers around a medieval-style duchy called Dargon in the far reaches of the Kingdom of Baranur on the world named Makdiar, and as such contains stories with a fantasy fiction/sword and sorcery flavor." Editor(s): Dafydd Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Sci_Fiction/DargonZine ftp.eff.org: Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Usenet: rec.mag.fsfnet Dogwood Blossoms "An at-least-monthly publication of the Internet community. The goal of this digest is to be a place where Haiku can be shared and discussed with other lovers of the art." Editor(s): Gary Warner Matt Burke Nori Matsui Format: ASCII text Drum "Drum is not an isolated event but an ongoing process." Editor(s): R Patrick Jones Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Drum Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us etext.archive.umich.edu Ego Project "This 'zine is a product of me and as such will contain anything I feel like putting in it. Whatever I feel like putting in it shall include, but is not limited too, anything I feel applies to Gothdom in general. Album/single/tape reviews, book and movies reviews, etc. The Sisters of Mercy and the Mission are my main focuses, but since neither of them put out music on anything resembling a frequent basis I imagine other groups will be featured quite frequently." Editor(s): Corey Nelson Format: ASCII text Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Postal: Ego Project, 1717 Monroe #b, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA Factsheet Five / Factsheet Five - Electric "FactSheet Five is the central clearinghouse of information about zines, those opinionated publications with press runs of 50 to 5000 (often done through surrepticious use of on-the-job supplies and xerox). Mike Gunderloy of Rennsalaer, NY published 44 editions of F5. Hudson Luce published issue #45. Seth Friedman has published issue #46 onwards. I opened my big mouth (or, rather, let my fingers blab away) about doing an online, net-accessible version of FactSheet Five." Editor(s): Jerod Pore (electronic version) Seth Friedman (paper version) Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Factsheet.Five Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us etext.archive.umich.edu WAIS: nigel.msen.com Postal: Seth Friedman, POB 170099, San Francisco, CA 94117-0099, USA (This is for the paper version *only*, especially subscriptions) Factsheet Five, 1800 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94102, USA (This is for *BOTH* the electronic and paper versions; or for items that can't be delivered to a PO box) Phone: +1 415 668 1781 (paper version *only*) Other: The WELL BBSes around the world FSFNet "BITNET fantasy-science fiction fanzine." Editor(s): "Orny" Liscomb Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Sci_Fiction/FSFNet Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu NOTE: Defunct since 1988; replaced by DargonZine (see above) FUNHOUSE! -- The cyberzine of degenerate pop culture "Dedicated to whatever happens to be on my mind at the time I'm writing. The focus will tend to be on those aspects of our fun-filled world which aren't given the attention of the bland traditional media, or which have been woefully misinterpreted or misdiagnosed by the same. FUNHOUSE! is basically a happy place, and thus the only real criteria I will try to meet is to refrain from rants, personal attacks, and flames -- and thus FUNHOUSE! is an apolitical place. Offbeat films, music, literature, and experiences are largely covered, with the one stipulation that articles are attempted to be detailed and well documemnted, although this is no guarantee of completeness or correctness, so that the interested reader may further pursue something which may spark her interest." Editor(s): Jeff Dove Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/funhouse etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Funhouse Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu gopher.well.sf.ca.us GMJ Editor(s): Anthony Shubert ace@ace.com Format: ASCII text ANSI text Clipboard (VGA/SVGA pictures with text, IBM PC-compatible) Postal: Innovative Creations, 29 David Road, South Carver, MA 02330, USA ($2 will get a 30+page printed newsletter) GRIST On-Line "A new journal of electronic network poetry, art and culture. GRIST will be eclectic. GRIST will be open to all the language and visual art forms that develop on the net." Editor(s): John Fowler Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Poetry/Grist Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu:/Poetry/Grist Postal: GRIST ON-LINE, John Fowler, editor, Columbus Circle Sta., P.O. Box 20805, New York, NY 10023-1496, USA HardC.O.R.E. "The official rap music fanzine of The Committee of Rap Excellence." Editor(s): Steve "Flash" Juon, Chief Editor and Chief Rocka David J. Warner, Music Editor, Director of Network Distribution Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/HardCORE Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu:/Zines/HardCORE Hi-Rez "Electronic Journal for CyberBeatniks" Editor(s): Will Longman Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/CyberPunk/HI-REZ Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu gopher.well.sf.ca.us Holy Temple of Mass Consumption "Articles, opinions, reviews, and artwork of a loosely-defined collection of cranks, weirdos, freaks, net.personalities, curmudgeons, and anyone else who turns us on at the time. Commentary on nearly everything, with particular attention to societal decay in general and mass-media conspiracy programming in particular. Or anything else we decide to write about, with strong ties to the finest SubGenius traditions." Editor(s): Wayne Aiken Format: ASCII text FTP: quartz.rutgers.edu:/pub/journals/HToMC Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Postal: HToMC, PO Box 30904, Raleigh, NC 27622-0904, USA Phone: +1 919 954 5956 (voice) Usenet: alt.slack, alt.discordia Other: StarFleet BBS (+1 919 954 5028) Hardcopy version available from PO Box address Free with SASE, otherwise $1, trade, or "neat stuff" inter\face "inter\face is an offering." Editor(s): Benjamin Henry Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Interface Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu International TeleTimes "International Teletimes is a general interest magazine. There are several recurring monthly columns but the rest of the content changes from month to month as new themes are chosen. The goal of Teletimes is to attract a large variety of writers from all over the world so that the readers will be exposed to a great variety of ideas and opinions." Editor(s): Ian Wojtowicz Format: Macintosh Doc-Maker application FTP: sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/per/teletimes-*.hqx Postal: TeleTimes International, 3938 West 30th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6S 1X3, Canada Other: OneNet (network of FirstClass BBSes) InterText "InterText is a bi-monthly fiction magazine printing stories in all genres from mainstream to science fiction. It's read by thousands of subscribers on six continents." Editor(s): Jason Snell Geoff Duncan (assistant editor) Format: ASCII text PostScript FTP: network.ucsd.edu:/intertext etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Literary/InterText Gopher: ocf.berkeley.edu:OCF On-Line Library/Fiction/InterText etext.archive.umich.edu WWW: file://network.ucsd.edu/intertext/other_formats/HTML/ITtoc.html CompuServe: Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Zines from the Net" section, accessible by typing "GO EFFSIG" GEnie: Science Fiction Roundtable #3 (SFRT3) download section Postal: InterText, 21645 Parrotts Ferry, Sonora, CA 95370, USA The Lighthouse "Shining Light on Today's Christian Music" Editor(s): J. Warner Soditus (exec. editor/publisher) Beth Blinn Format: ASCII text Postscript FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu/pub/Zines/lighthouse nic.cic.net/pub/Zines/lighthouse Postal: The Lighthouse, 256 East College Avenue, Suite 302, State College, PA 16801, USA (814) 238-6730 LIMINAL -- Liminal Explorations "LIMINAL seeks to apply new inter and transdisciplinary methods, theories, ideas, concepts, and approaches to the study of cultural phenomena as well as the inventive application of existing approaches. The term 'cultural phenomena' is taken to mean, but not limited to meaning: 1) an activity engaged in by humans as members of a social network, 2) the product(s) of such engagement(s), 3) the motivators of such activities or engagements, 4) the functioning of such social networks themselves." Editor(s): Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Liminal Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: The Liminal Group, Box 154, BGSU, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA The Neon Gargoyle Gazette "The goal of this magazine is to enlighten the public at large about the world of horror from the tiny details of splatter to the grand sweeping theories of hidden psychological appeal. The GARGOYLE contains discussion forums on horror in all its forms. History, art, poetry, biography, modern cinema, professional make-up techniques, and horror productions both present and past are all examined here, as well as a trivia Q&A section." Editor(s): Dan Krumlauf Format: ASCII text USENET: alt.horror, alt.cult-movies Other: Cleveland Free-Net Community Computer System (+1 216 368 3888 or IP address 129.22.8.38); once logged in type "GO HORROR" Phone: +1 216 491 4616 Obscure Electronic "OBSCURE is the zine that profiles the people in this publishing subculture." Editor(s): James P Romenesko Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Obscure.Electric Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: POB 1334, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA Parthenogenesis Editor(s): Dan Herrick Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Parthenogenesis Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Parthenogenesis, 804 S. College Suite 8363, Ft. Collins, CO 80524, USA People Power Update The newsletter of the bicycle advocacy group "People Power" Editor(s): Ron Goodman Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/ppu Postal: People Power, 226 Jeter Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA Phone: +1 408 425 8851 (voice/fax) Play by EMail "Electronic 'zine about free play-by-electronic-mail wargames. Reviews, game openings, information." Editor(s): Greg Lindahl Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.erg.sri.com:/pub/pbm/PBEM-Fanzine Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Usenet: rec.games.pbm Power to the People Mover "POWER TO THE PEOPLE MOVER concerned with unusual and noteworthy behavior observed on mass transit systems, particularly the bus lines." Editor(s): Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/People.Mover Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Cool It, P.O. Box 232741, Leucadia, CA 92023, USA Practical Anarchy Online "An electronic zine concerning anarchy from a practical point of view, to help you put some anarchy in your everyday life. The anarchy scene is covered through reviews and reports from people in the living anarchy." Editor(s): Chuck Munson Bitnet: cmunson@wiscmacc.bitnet Mikael Cardell Fidonet: Mikael Cardell@2:205/223 Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Politics/Spunk Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Practical Anarchy, POB 173, Madison, WI 53701-0173, USA Practical Anarchy, c/o Mikael Cardell, Gustav Adolfsgatan 3, S-582 20 Linkoping, Sweden PURPS Editor(s): Pope Jephe Doc Simpson Format: ASCII text E-Mail: FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Purps Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: IGHF, 955 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 209, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Quanta "Quanta is the electronically produced and distributed magazine of science fiction and fantasy. As such, each issues is packed with fiction from amateur and professional authors from around the world and across the net." Editor(s): Daniel K Appelquist Format: PostScript ASCII text FTP: export.acs.cmu.edu:/pub/quanta ftp.eff.org:/journals/Quanta lth.se:/documents/Quanta catless.newcastle.ac.uk:/pub/Quanta etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Sci_Fiction/Quanta Gopher: gopher-srv.acs.cmu.edu (in the Archives directory) etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Quanta, 3003 Van Ness St. NW #S919, Washington, DC 20008, USA CompuServe: "Zines from the Net" area of the EFF forum (accessed by typing GO EFFSIG) R.A.D! ON-LINE "Review And Discussion of Rock & Roll." Editor(s): Keith A. Gordon Format: ASCII text Usenet: alt.zines alt.music.alternative Postal: 826 Old Charlotte Pike East, Franklin, TN 37064, USA Other: MONDO GORDO! BBS (+1 615 791 8050) A Brother To Dragons BBS (+1 615 781 9943) Random Access Humor -- The Electronic Humor Magazine "A rag-tag collection of fugitive humor, some of which is vaguely related to the BBS/Online System world." Editor(s): Dave Bealer Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Humor/RAH r/RAH Postal: Random Access Humor, c/o Dave Bealer, P.O. Box 595, Pasadena, MD 21122, USA Other: The Puffin's Nest BBS (FidoNet: 1:261/1129, +1 410 437-3463, 1200-14400/V.32bis) SCRATCH "One of the things that kept me from doing something sooner was the idea that you sort of had to have a focus to do a proper zine. I got over it. I found a new desire and enjoyment in rambling about whatever seems appropriate at the time. So here we are." Editor(s): James Barnett Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Scratch Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: J. Barnett, 28 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10805, USA Scream Baby "What do I want? Besides world peace, a sexy Mexican maid, and someone to use their fucking brains around here, I want a really good all-encompassing-sub-culture zine. Music, literature, art, television, film, weird space-time kinks, events, information, news, humor, interviews, and re:views of 'Stuff I Think Is Cool.' Not all at once, of course. Each issue of Scream Baby will come out whenever I can scrape together 25-30 kilobytes of really good stuff." Editor(s): Blade X Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/CyberPunk/ScreamBaby ftp.eff.org:/pub/journals/ScreamBaby Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu gopher.well.sf.ca.us Other: WWIV: 46@5285 Tejas BBS (+1 512 467-0663) (16.8 HST modem) Screams of Abel "SOAE is published weekly giving you the latest in brutal music, from heavy gothic metal to grindcore to hardcore and even some... ick.. pop metal. But that won't be much, I assure you.. :-)." Editor(s): Phil Powell Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Screams.of.Abel Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Usenet: alt.zines Other: FIDONET: CCM Conference WWIVNET: CCM conference from node @7313 Slither "inSobordinate Leftists Intellectual Trash Hopefully Earmarked for Revolution." Editor(s): Format: ASCII text Postal: 7514 Girard #228, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Phone: +1 619 230 7106 TapRoot Reviews Electronic Edition "Short reviews of micropress poetry, experimental literature and art -- 100+ reviews per issue." Editor(s): Luigi-Bob Drake Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Taproot Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Burning Press, PO Box 585, Lakewood, OH 44107, USA Taylorology "TAYLOROLOGY is a newsletter focusing on the life and death of William Desmond Taylor, a top film Paramount film director in early Hollywood who was shot to death on February 1, 1922. His unsolved murder was one of Hollywood's major scandals. This newsletter will deal with: (a) The facts of Taylor's life; (b) The facts and rumors of Taylor's murder; (c) The impact of the Taylor murder on Hollywood and the nation. Primary emphasis will be given toward reprinting, referencing and analyzing source material, and sifting it for accuracy." Editor(s): Bruce Long Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Taylorology Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu The Trincoll Journal "The Trincoll Journal is a weekly publication for Macintosh users. The Journal is a student-run publication at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut." Editor(s): Format: Macintosh HyperCard stack E-Mail: Journal@mail.trincoll.edu (make sure you include the words "subscribe Journal" in the subject line) Twilight Zone "An all-format on-line magazine aimed at everybody who is interested in any sort of fiction -- although it usually tends to concentrate on fantasy and science-fiction." 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See the FAQ submission guidlines FAQ in news.answers. -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Fri Jan 21 12:27:29 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA06723; Fri, 21 Jan 94 12:27:26 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9401212027.AA06723@wps.com> Subject: Meat (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 12:27:25 -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: 5311 Forwarded message: From gnu@toad.com Fri Jan 21 01:49:01 1994 Message-Id: <9401210948.AA05341@toad.com> To: tomj@wps.com, hugh@toad.com, laura@toad.com Subject: Meat Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 01:48:52 -0800 From: gnu@toad.com [forwards deleted] > A dialogue by Terry Bisson. From a series of stories entitled > "Alien/Nation" in the April issue of Omni. "They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the through. They're completely meat." "That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars." "They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines." "So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact." "They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines." "That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat." "I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat." "Maybe they're like the orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage." "Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spams, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life spam of meat?" "Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the weddilei. A meat head with an electron plamsa brain inside." "Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through." "No brain?" "Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!" "So... what does the thinking?" "You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat." "Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!" "Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?" "Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat." "Finally. Yes, they are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years." "So what does the meat have in mind." "First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual." "We're supposed to talk to meat?" "That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing." "They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?" "Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat." "I thought you just told me they used radio." "They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat." "Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?" "Officially or unofficially?" "Both." "Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the reconds and forget the whole thing." "I was hoping you would say that." "It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?" "I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?" "Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C-space. which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact." "So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe." "That's it." "Cruel. But you sid it yourself, who want to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?" "They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them." "A dream to meat! How strangely appropiate, that we should be meat's dream." "And we can marked this sector unoccupied." "Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interested on that side of the galaxy?" "Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotation ago, wants to be friendly again." "They always come around." "And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone." ---- John Markoff MCI: jmarkoff New York Times Internet: markoff@nyt.com Embarcadero Center One Well: johnm@well.sf.ca.us San Francisco, CA 94111 ----------------------------- phone: 415 362 3912 all the news etc. ----------------------------- -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From flesh Sat Jan 22 13:47:09 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA10765; Sat, 22 Jan 94 13:47:04 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401222147.AA10765@wps.com> Subject: w00f! To: shit-list Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 13:47:04 -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: 786 Here's some fun for you all. Apparently, some fellow calling himself Bobby BIBLE has put together an organization/magazine called VIP, which stands for VIrgin Pride. Clever, no? This whole thing is about (surprise!) celibacy and what a GREAT idea it is and there are no problems with it whatsoever so everybody do it or else, ok? He dedicates his book to "Jesus Christ, a lifleong virgin who never masturbated." Right. Since I'm always looking for new ways to go to hell, I wrote down the address for this project. You can get a FREE copy of their magazine by writing to: Christian Anti-Defamation League PO Box 433 Norwalk, CA 90651-0433 A guy on internet sez this thing is a barrel o' laffs, and I'm sending for my copy as soon as I can find a stamp. From flesh Sat Jan 22 18:19:24 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA11309; Sat, 22 Jan 94 18:19:11 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401230219.AA11309@wps.com> Subject: Fun with telemarketeers To: shit-list Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 18:19:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: chance@tatertot.com, tjames@netcom.com, bat@cyberden.sf.ca.us, tom.tomorrow@sfnet.com, tom@tatertot.com, zorca@well.sf.ca.us, mykel (Mykel Board) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4647 >From mvanmeet@nyx.cs.du.edu Thu Nov 11 21:05:59 MST 1993 Tormenting Telmarketers - A Game You Can Play at Home! Everyone has gotten a call from a Telemarketer. The new Scourge of the Telephone System. Previously when the phone rang, you always wondered if it was someone you knew, or another schmuck with something to sell. Well, the time has come to turn the tables. We need to take control of our own phones. We need to take the "market" out of Telemarketing. Premise: Telemarketers take the brute force approach to making sales. If you talk to a whole bunch of people, someone will buy what you are selling. Counter-Tactic: Waste as much of their time as you can. For each minute that you waste means several potential customers that will not be reached. Make Telemarketing unprofitable. Hanging up only increases the changes for them to make a sale. Don't let this happen! Hints: Most of the preliminary stuff is done by someone making minimum wage, and reads a script. Let them finish. It's easy points, and you were watching Star Trek and weren't using your phone anyway. It's easy to keep them interested using "attentive grunting", similar to when your mother calls. Scoring: Basic Point System: For each minute spent on the phone 10 pts. Getting transfered to someone who makes more than minimum wage 15 pts For each minute spent on the phone with person making more than minimum wage 25 pts Bonus Points: Getting them to repeat part of the "script" 5 pts/each Getting answers to stupid questions 15 pts/each Changing the subject 50 pts/each Making the sales person angry 175 pts Making the sales person use profanity 750 pts Get their boss on the phone, and tell them the salesman used profanity 1500 pts Getting their 1-800- number 10 pts Posting their 1-800- number to alt.sex as a free "Phone Sex" line 50 pts Checking the number a week later and it is busy or disconnected 5000 pts Example: Me: Yes? Them: Hi, I'm with Fly-By-Night Carpet Cleaning and we're in your area [...] [start clock->] Them: [...] would like to know it you are interested? Me: Sure... Them: Well, we are currently offering [...] Them: [...] depending on the size of the rooms. Me: Well, how much for the whole house? [15 bonus pts!] Them: Let me transfer you to Them: Sir? Me: Yes? [25 pts/min!] Them: How large is your house? Me: Oh, about 2,000 sqft. Them: [...] Well, that would be about $xxx [stupid ?] Me: It won't hurt the floor, will it? Them: Oh, no! We use a [...this usually takes some time!...] and is completely safe. [stupid ?] Me: Even with my pets? Them: Oh, yes. The chemicals we use [...] Me: Do you have to pre-treat, since I have pets? Them: Yes, and we do that with [...] [repeat!] Me: But the original offer was for $39.95, does that include treating for pets? Them: [...] [subject change]Me: Well, it is kindof dirty. The guys were over for the game. Did you see the Cowboys vs. the Rams? Them: Yes. Me: What a game! That last touchdown pass! Wasn't that a great play? Them: Well, back to your house... Me: Oh yes, what about moving the furniture? Them: [...] [subject change]Me: Do you clean furniture, too? Those guys spilled some beer. Have you smelled old beer on furniture before? But what a game, eh?! I couldn't believe that they couldn't move the ball in the second quarter... [...] [angry???] Them: Ahem... Would you like us to come out? Me: Well, when could you come out? Them: How about next week? Me: Hmmm... Morning or afternoon? Them: Either would be fine. Me: Do you have anything the week after? Them: Sure, can I put you down for Tuesday? [Okay, let's try for those last big bonus points:] Me: Well, I don't think it matters, since I have all hardwood floors here! Them: Dammit! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - David L. Cathey |INET: davidc@montagar.com Montagar Software Concepts |UUCP: ...!montagar!davidc P. O. Box 260772, Plano TX 75026-0772 |Fone: (214)-618-2117 From flesh Sat Jan 22 18:34:31 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA11355; Sat, 22 Jan 94 18:34:27 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9401230234.AA11355@wps.com> Subject: Flame that puppy To: shit-list Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 18:34:26 -0800 (PST) Cc: zorca@well.sf.ca.us X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 10169 The following was taken from the alt.flame off the internet newsgroups. It is a group devoted entirely to insults. We're not talking about the typical "your mamma" insults here. We're talking about stuff that, if said in real life, and ment, would more than likly get your residential dwelling firebombed. Summed up, if it can be held against you, it will...viscously. This is one of the better ones off of the group. BE WARNED!!!!!!!! BE WARNED!!!!!!!! BE WARNED!!!!!!!! BE WARNED!!!!!!!! >From haushalt@research.nj.nec.com Tue Dec 21 12:13:41 MST 1993 Good evening, folks. I'm Bob Haushalter and I'm your host for the second annual alt.flame "Hall of Shame" fashion show here in the beautiful Trump Taj Mahal Casino in exciting Atlantic City. We've got quite a show lined up for you tonight and I'd like to get things started. Joining me here tonight at the foot of the walkway are a distinguished panel of judges composed of a few of the alt.flame losers. Could each of you stand as I introduce you? On my immediate right here is Mike Holeburn looking quite a bit like the little man from the Monopoly game in his tux (nods to crowd), to his right Andy from Dallas(waves cowboy hat), Babs Abernathy, Karmellow Cornhole and finally Tony Zugates. You'll be happy to know also that this year we isolated the Norwegians, Swedes and the other assorted Scandoscum trash in a sound proof glass enclosure so we won't have to experience the disruptions we heard last year. Well, let me tell you a little bit about what you can expect. As you are probably aware, alt.flame has recently experienced a burgeoning influx of a number of transvestites/crossdressers, transexuals and, above all, several individuals who are just basically, plain old confused about their sexual identities. So we're particularly encouraging these individuals to "strut their stuff" for you tonight here in Atlantic City, in hopes of them clarifying and crystallizing their thoughts in this important area. Moving right along to our first contestant, directly from the heart of the cornbelt in Ames Iowa, we have BFG the Bunghole Fondling Gastropod, Becky Baker. And here she comes down the runway now. Doesn't she carry her 182 lbs on her 5'2" frame quite well? Becky is really looking fine with her fresh shave and crisply starched, crotchless overalls. Well those see-thru leotards are indeed quite eyecatching. BFG, is that a couple pads of black steel wool peeking out from the crotch of your stained undies or are you overdue for a pube job at the local merkin salon? Becky, is that your butt shaking like that when you walk or do you have 50 lbs of half melted jello in a plastic garbage strapped to your derriere? Camera 3, can we get a closeup of Beck and display it on the big screen here in the Taj Mahal? Love the way you comb your lipid drenched, prematurely gray hair stright back. Hey who knows, with these judges, the blackheads and ample nasal hair could be a plus. Are you blushing? Well, judges, what say ye? Babs: Oy! I like you plaid flannel shirt under the overalls. 8 Karmy: Fuck you, Bob. I make $100,000/year and drive a BMW. I get laid every night (by women). A 10. Andy: Bob, you know what boggles my fucking mind? The stinking Federal Reserve System. Did you know that the US has a private banking system and that the Federal Reserve is not part of the Government? Did you know that they've never been audited except with their own internal audits? And that these audits don't meet even the minimum requirements of the National Association of Public Accountants? I think the whole crossdressing farmgirl charade sucks . . . 4. Holeburn: Bob, can ask the contestant a question? Thanks. BFG, can you tell me what is the proper diameter file to use on both round and square chisel teeth chain saw chains in both domestic and foreign *professional* chain saws with over 3cc engines? Two stroke only, please. BFG: A constant diameter 0.050" on the domestic and 1.2mm on the German saws. OK. Our next contestant is that zoophilic zarathustrian zulu, straight from Witwatersrand . . . [Simonize Anderson] Si is sporting a blotchy rather dirty, intestine grey-pink Spandex upper body suit complemented by a very short, ruffled (Desmond) tutu. His coarsely knit, nurse-like white nylons with the seam in back allow his kinky leg hairs to protrude thru the mesh for that furry Kalahari look. Si, do you have Afro-sheen on your leg hairs? Let's have a hand for Si and his cross-dressing Willy Mandela look. Well Holeburn, what do you think? Hole: I'm impressed with the shield displaying the wildebeest penis . . . I'll give him an 8. Andy? Andy: Bob, there were dozens of men, women and children incinerated in Waco and righteous Boobus America didn't even blink an eye. What happened to the "drug labs", "child pornography" and the other "outrages" that were supposed to have justified the raid? What did these people do besides exercise their Constitutional rights for religious freedom and to bear arms? As soon as the government labels you as a "cult" or "warlord" or the like, you'd better make out your will. Si, your thongs just aren't you . . . I give you a 4. Babs? Babs: Oy! Si, I like you legs. You look like a guy that knows where to find undigested corn . . . a 9. Cornhole? Karmy: Fuck you, Bob. I make $120,000/year and drive a top of the line BMW. I get laid twice every night (by women). Karmy, please keep your hands on the table top . . . what do you vote? I haven't had a drink since dinner and can't think too fast . . . get the hell off my back. I say 10. OK, Tony? Tony: OK! Looking good, Si . . . good luck. Allright, folks, let's continue. Our next contestant is from way up North, ay? Straight from Waterloo in Guelph, it's Lez. [Lez Stewart] Folks, will you look at this! Here comes Lez down the walkway. Those 6 inch platform shoes and heels do give her a certain presence, don't they? Lez is dressed tonight in an extremely thin, black, skin tight kid glove leather body suit. Am I seeing things or is your leather only about ten microns thick. I swear from here I can see every single lucious bump and crevice on her succulent body! I think I can actually make out the outline of the little Indian there in his canoe. Lez, I'm almost afraid to ask where you got those foreskin earrings. The stump of a pipe held tight in her teeth And the smoke it encircled her head like a wreath. Well judges, I know I got a woody in about four picoseconds when I saw her, what do you all think? Comfy, if you can get your tongue back in your mouth tells us what you think. Hole: uuuuhhhh . . . uh . . 10! Babs: Oy! I like you turgid buttocks . . . 10. Andy: Bob, how many people do think that crazy bastard on the Long Island Railroad would have shot if everyone exercised their second amendment rights and carried a gun? Maybe two at the most. I give Lez a 10. Tony: Cornhole: Does anyone have any tissues? A 10. It certainly looks like Lez is the one to "beat" so far. Our next participant hails from lovely Santa Barbara and here she is . . [Katty Corkme] As our lips slowly parted, I stared deeply into her limpid blue eyes and pushed her long blonde hair back off her shoulders. I slowly unbuttoned her white cotton blouse and let it fall to the floor. She gently placed her hands on either side of my head and slowly drew my face into the warm softness of her breasts. As I placed my mouth over her large areola, which was just slightly darker than the surrounding skin of her firm breast, her smooth nipple rapidly became erect. As my lips moved down from her breast, across her stomach and below her navel, I could feel the muscles in her buttocks becoming increasingly tense . . . Ahem. And now from just outside the main gate of the big Navy base in San Diego the Ferrous Fanny Fondler [Vapid Video Vug-head] Stainette, do you have anything to say to the judges? "Yes . . . fuckhead. Feh." Well, that was certainly up to your pithy standards, Dickcheese. This evening Stainette is wearing the Wal-Mart special southern California unisex shiny rayon jogging suit made from recycled polyethylene terephthallate. Further confusing the gender issue Stainette has apparently accentuated both her breasts but (s)he has a (rather smallish) bulge in the crotch area as well. The lipstick/eyeshadow is nicely offset by the workshoes and hard hat. Well judges, what do you think of our little San Diego gender bender? Karmy, please keep your hands up on the table. Babs? Babs: Oy! I really don't care for you jumpsuit. I prefer something with just a tad more ostentatiousness. I'll give you outfit a 4. Comfy: (S)he's a colostomy bag. 4 Cornhole: Where are the free drinks you promised? 10 Andy: Bob, what about the MOVE disaster in Philly a few years back? They didn't fit the mold so the government firebombed their house. Killed women and children and burned down an entire city block with 60 houses. I'll give Stainette a 0, no imagination whatsoever. Tony: Well, Stainette, thanks loads. Don't call us, we'll call you. Being a California weirdo, I guess you forgot to rub your crystal, pray to Shirley Maclain and eat your alfalfa sprouts, you new age neophytic neandrathal. Well folks we're going ohave to stop her for a commercial break. Don't forget to stay tuned this evening after the pageant for our special presentation: Santa/The Pope/Chelsea Clinton: A KY covered menage a trois. Rated XXX From tomj Tue Jan 25 20:03:49 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA09622; Tue, 25 Jan 94 20:03:45 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9401260403.AA09622@wps.com> Subject: quick thinking electrical engineer (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 20:03:44 -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: 5275 Forwarded message: From seiden.com!mis@seiden.com Tue Jan 25 19:51:34 1994 Message-Id: <9401251736.AA05379@media.mit.edu> To: silent-tristero@world.std.com Subject: quick thinking electrical engineer Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:36:29 -0500 From: Michael Travers X-Mts: smtp Sender: mis@seiden.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: silent-tristero@world.std.com The following text has been forwarded around enough that all trace of its original author's identity has been lost. - ------- Begin ------- My girlfriend always seemed to enjoy seeing how much she could get away with doing some form of bondage stuff in public. She does this partly because she finds it fun, mostly because she knows it drives me out of my tree. Usually, I's able to fast- talk my way out of potentially embarrassing situations with Mundanes, but yesterday she very nearly got me fired. Yesterday afternoon we had lunch together. Afterward, she accompanied me back to work. I thought this slightly unusual, since she had never before expressed in interest in my work (electronic engineering), but it didn't occur to me that she had something planned. We arrived at my workbench, where I currently trying to figure why the $&#%@^$ board on which I am working is not performing the way it is designed. "Is this where you work?" she asked. "At the moment," I replied. I reached over to turn on the scope, thereby completely failing to notice the huge black studded collar she had produced from her purse. Before I could blink (it's amazing the speed at which she can do this), she had locked the collar snugly around my neck, and locked the end of the 6 foot jack chain to the center of the bench ( where there just happened to be a mounting hole, dammit). I turned to her in utter disbelief, mouth agape. "I'll be back for you at five," she said. "HAVE YOU GONE COMPLETELY WACKO!??!?!", I yelled in a hushed voice. "How the hell am I going to explain this!?!?!" "You'll think of something", she said, dropping the keys into her cleavage, "you always do". "But suppose I have to go to the bathroom", I countered. "Don't give me that", she hissed, "I've seen you go a whole day without visiting the bathroom" "But....," I tried to say. "SHHH! The subject is closed. I'll be back at five. Bye" She turned around and left, against my hushed protests. I sat in panic and tried to think out my situation. I tried to think of who might visit. Most of my co-workers were friends who knew that my girlfriend and I were a bit odd, so this shouldn't surprise them. But I had *no* idea what I was going to do if one of my bosses came in. I checked my watch to see how long I would have to endure this ignominy. 13:30 (I'm a military time weenie). "Three and a half hours," I thought. I heaved a heavy sigh, and got to work, such as I could. As it happened, three of my co-workers visited for what-not. All of them immediately noticed the collar (it would be hard not to) and asked if it was my girlfriend's idea. I said yes. They asked what I would do if my supervisor saw it. I told them I hadn't the faintest idea. One of the aforementioned colleagues took the bench next to me, and after a few remarks (and a question as to where he could get such a collar), settled down to work in silence. After some time, I checked my watch. 16:40. "Gee, I just might make it through this after all," I thought. I was even beginning to get a handle on the problem with the $#%&&$# board on which I was working. Murphy must have been standing right behind me, reading my thoughts, for not two minutes later one of my bosses entered the room. And not just any boss. Noooooooo. This was Mr. Narrowminded himself. This was the guy who took Lifespring *and* became a born-again funda- mentalist. How he came to have the power of hire-and-fire over us is one of the Great Mysteries of The Universe. We avoided this guy at all costs. His eyes fell upon me immediately. A few picoseconds later, he saw the collar around my neck in all it's splendor. "My life is over," I thought. I still hadn't thought of a plausible explanation for this. Mr Solderbrain (the name we called him behind his back; a corruption of his real name) started to walk slowly and deliberately over to me, his eyes fixed on the collar. Fifteen agonizing seconds later, he was standing next to me. I thought the guy sitting next to me was going to have seizures stifling all his giggles. I continued to work, acting as though there were nothing the least bit unusual about my predicament. Finally, he spoke. "What. the. HELL! is. THAT!?!?!" he said. I don't know how I thought of what I said. In fact, I'm pretty sure I didn't know what I was going to say until I was saying it. I'm even more amazed that Solderbrain actually bought it and didn't fire me on the spot. I turned to face him calmly, with total nonchalance, exuding complete confidence in what I was about to say, even though I didn't know what it was yet. I didn't even miss a beat. "Grounding strap," I said, and returned to work. The guy next to me fell off his chair and nearly died laughing. -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Thu Jan 27 18:57:58 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA06600; Thu, 27 Jan 94 18:57:45 -0800 Received: from well.sf.ca.us by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA03813; Thu, 27 Jan 94 00:04:45 -0800 Received: from relay1.UU.NET (relay1.UU.NET [192.48.96.5]) by well.sf.ca.us (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id AAA18847 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 1994 00:04:21 -0800 Received: from holonet.net by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AAwapz17002; Thu, 27 Jan 94 02:50:27 -0500 Received: from localhost (uucp@localhost) by holonet.net id XAA08315; Wed, 26 Jan 1994 23:45:10 -0800 Received: by internaut.com (NX5.67c/NeXT-3.0) id AA05403; Wed, 26 Jan 94 22:54:27 -1000 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 22:54:27 -1000 From: aboba@internaut.com (Bernard D. Aboba) Message-Id: <9401270854.AA05403@internaut.com> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.87.1) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.87.1) To: bail-list@well.sf.ca.us Subject: The Interactive Salad Bar Sender: tomj (reprinted without permission from Newsweek, January 3, 1994.) The '90s - Looking Back at the Interactive Salad Bar by Dave Barry All things considered, the '90s were a pretty good decade. This is not to say that technology was an unadulterated plus in the '90s. The Information Superhighway was pretty much of a dud. Remember that? By the mid-'90s, just about everybody was hooked up to the vast international computer network, exchanging vast quantities of information at high speeds via modems and fiber-optic cable with everybody else. The problem, of course was that even though the information was coming a lot faster, the vast majority of it, having originated with human beings, was still wrong. Eventually people realized that the Information Superhighway was essentially CB radio, but with more typing. By late in the decade millions of Americans had abandoned their computers and turned to the immensely popular new VirtuLib 2000, a $14,000 device that enables the user to experience, with uncanny realism, the sensation of reading a book. Speaking of entertainment, the '90s saw an explosion of cable TV channels, offering innovative programing such as the Home Shopping Network's hugely successful show "Interactive Salad Bar," in which viewers, by manipulating a console in their homes, can direct the selection of ingredients in a studio thousands of miles away, and then have the actual salads delivered to their homes, ready to eat, WITHIN TWO WORKING DAYS.... From tomj Thu Jan 27 19:10:34 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA06666; Thu, 27 Jan 94 19:10:31 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9401280310.AA06666@wps.com> Subject: Innaresting conference -- lotsa weirdos To: shit-list Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 19:10:30 -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: 9876 >From Computer Underground Digest #6.10 Date: 22 Jan 94 19:32:19 -0500 From: Conal.Garrity@F8004.N282.Z1.FIDONET.ORG(Conal Garrity) Subject: File 2--DEF CON ][ Initial Announcement Updated Last : 1.16.1994 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DEF CON ][ Convention Initial Announcement READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE ============================================================================= What's this? This is the initial announcement and invitation to DEF CON ][, a convention for the "underground" elements of the computer culture. We try to target the (Fill in your favorite word here): Hackers, Phreaks, Hammies, Virii coders, programmers, crackers, Cyberpunk Wannabees, Civil Liberties Groups, CypherPunks, Futurists, Artists, Etc.. WHO: You know who you are, you shady characters. WHAT: A convention for you to meet, party, and listen to some speeches that you would normally never hear. WHEN: July 22, 23, 24 - 1994 WHERE: Las Vegas, Nevada @ The Sahara Hotel So you heard about DEF CON I, and want to hit part ][? You heard about the parties, the info discussed, the bizarre atmosphere of Las Vegas and want to check it out in person? Load up your laptop muffy, we're heading to Vegas! Here is what Three out of Three people said about last years convention: "DEF CON I, last week in Las Vegas, was both the strangest and the best computer event I have attended in years." -- Robert X. Cringely, Info World "Toto, I don't think we're at COMDEX anymore." -- Coderipper, Gray Areas "Soon we were at the hotel going through the spoils: fax sheets, catalogs, bits of torn paper, a few McDonald's Dino-Meals and lots of coffee grounds. The documents disappeared in seconds." -- Gillian Newson, New Media Magazine DESCRIPTION: Last year we held DEF CON I, which went over great, and this year we are planning on being bigger and better. We have expanded the number of speakers to included midnight tech talks and additional speaking on Sunday. We attempt to bring the underground into contact with "legitimate" speakers. Sure it's great to meet and party with fellow hackers, but besides that we try to provide information and speakers in a forum that can't be found at other conferences. While there is an initial concern that this is just another excuse for the evil hackers to party and wreak havok, it's just not the case. People come to DEF CON for information and for making contacts. We strive to distinguish this convention from others in that respect. WHAT'S NEW THIS YEAR: This year will be much larger and more organized than last year. We have a much larger meeting area, and have better name recognition. Because of this we will have more speakers on broader topics. Expect speaking to run Saturday and Sunday, ending around 5 p.m. Some of the new things expected include: > An INet connection with sixteen ports will be there, _BUT_ will only provide serial connections because terminals are too hard to ship. So bring a laptop with communications software if you want to connect to the network. Thanks to cyberlink communications for the connection. > There will be door prizes, and someone has already donated a Cell Phone to give away. > Dr. Ludwig will present his virii creation awards on Sunday. > A bigger and better "Spot The Fed" contest, which means more shirts to give away. > More room, we should have tables set up for information distribution. If you have anything you want distributed, feel free to leave it on the designated tables. Yes, this year there will be a true 24 hour convention space. > A 24 hour movie / video suite where we will be playing all type of stuff. VHS Format. Mail me with suggested titles to show, or bring your own. > Midnight Tech Talks on Friday and Saturday night to cover the more technical topics and leave the days free for more general discussions. WHO IS SPEAKING: I was going to run a list of the current speakers we have lined up, but at this point things are still fluid. In a few months when the speakers list is more solidified I will release it. I'll name the people who have committed to attending in the next announcement. Trust me. WHERE THIS THING IS: It's in Las Vegas, the town that never sleeps. Really. There are no clocks anywhere in an attempt to lull you into believing the day never ends. Talk about virtual reality, this place fits the bill with no clunky hardware. If you have a buzz you may never know the difference. It will be at the Sahara Hotel. Intel as follows: The Sahara Hotel: 1.800.634.6078 Room Rates: Single/Double $55, Triple $65, Suite $120 (Usually $200) + 8% tax Transportation: Shuttles from the airport for cheap NOTE: Please make it clear you are registering for the DEF CON ][ convention to get the room rates. Our convention space price is based on how many people register. Register under a false name if it makes you feel better, 'cuz the more that register the better for my pocket book. No one under 21 can rent a room by themselves, so get your buddy who is 21 to rent for you and crash out. Don't let the hotel people get their hands on your baggage, or there is a mandatory $3 group baggage fee. Vegas has killer unions. OTHER STUFF: If you check out Wired like 1.5 or 1.6 there was a blurb about the new Luxor hotel with it's total VR experience. It looks like the first true VR ride / experience for a group of people, it seats eight. Intense. A friend was just over there, and tested out the various rides. Not to be outdone the new MGM grand (Largest hotel in the world) has a ride called the R360 which is basically a gyroscope they trap you into with goggles. We should get a group together and make a mass trek over there and check it out. If enough people are interested I'll call and see if we can book a time to reserve space for a bunch of us. Both are within walking distance. I'll whip up a list of stuff that's cool to check out in town there so if for some reason you leave the awesome conference you can take in some unreal sites in the city of true capitalism. MEDIA: Some of the places you can look for information from last year include: New Media Magazine, September 1993 InfoWorld, 7-12-1993 and also 7-19-1993 by Robert X. Cringely Gray Areas Magazine, Vol 2, #3 (Fall 1993) Unix World, ??? Phrack #44 COST: Cost is whatever you pay for a hotel room split however many ways, plus $15 if you preregister, or $30 at the door. This gets you a nifty 24 bit color name tag (We're gonna make it niftier this year) and your foot in the door. There are fast food places all over, and there is alcohol all over the place but the trick is to get it during a happy hour for maximum cheapness. ============================================================================ UPDATE: I wanted to thank whoever sent in the anonymous fax to Wired that was printed in issue 1.5 Cool deal! Dan Farmer posted his paper on unix security on the net, and I've put a copy of it on the ftp site if you want to grab it and take a look. It's called "zen.txt" I've received more scanned images from last year, and they will be put on the ftp site. ============================================================================= FOR MORE INFORMATION: For InterNet users, there is a DEF CON anonymous ftp site at cyberspace.com in /pub/defcon. There are digitized pictures, digitized speeches and text files with the latest up to date info available. For email users, you can email dtangent@defcon.org for more information. For non-net people call: The Alliance BBS [612] 251.8596 16.8k speed Dual Standard Open Access. 24 Hours. Users get full access on 1st call. iirg disto site, Syncro Net, text files galore. Sysop: Metal Head (The huge guy from last year) A DEF CON directory is maintained here For Snail Mail send to: DEF CON, 2709 E. Madison Street Suite #102, Seattle, WA, 98112 For Voice Mail and maybe a human (me), 0-700-TANGENT on an AT&T phone. A DEF CON Mailing list is maintained, and the latest announcements are mailed automatically to you. If you wish to be added to the list just send email to dtangent@defcon.org. We also maintain a chat mailing list where people can talk to one another and plan rides, talk, whatever. If you request to be on this list your email address will be shown to everyone, just so you are aware. [Note: We need some good list-serv software for BSD, if anyone knows where to find some, please e-mail me.] STUFF TO SPEND YOUR MONEY ON: > Tapes of last years speakers (four 90 minute tapes) are available for $20 > DEF CON I tee-shirts (white, large only) with large color logo on the front, and on the back the Fourth Amendment, past and present. This is shirt v 1.1 with no type-o's. These are $20, and sweatshirts are $25. > Pre-Register for next year in advance for $15 and save half. > Make all checks/money orders/etc. out to DEF CON, and mail to the address above. If you have any confidential info to send, use this PGP key to encrypt: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.3 mQCrAiyI6OcAAAEE8Mh1YApQOOfCZ8YGQ9BxrRNMbK8rP8xpFCm4W7S6Nqu4Uhpo dLfIfb/kEWDyLreM6ers4eEP6odZALTRvFdsoBGeAx0LUrbFhImxqtRsejMufWNf uZ9PtGD1yEtxwqh4CxxC8glNA9AFXBpjgAZ7eFvtOREYjYO6TH9sOdZSa8ahW7YQ hXatVxhlQqve99fY2J83D5z35rGddDV5azd9AAUTtCZUaGUgRGFyayBUYW5nZW50 IDxkdGFuZ2VudEBkZWZjb24ub3JnPg== =ko7s -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- The next announcement will have more updated information. I'll hold off on naming the speakers unless they commit to attending. It looks to be a great line up. - The Dark Tangent -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Tue Feb 1 03:17:56 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA07096; Tue, 1 Feb 94 03:17:50 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9402011117.AA07096@wps.com> Subject: SCUM Manifesto To: shit-list Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 03:17:49 -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: 69333 I have no idea why, but I typed in the whole SCUM Manifesto, and converted it to HTML (the WorldWideWeb format). It's easily converted to plain-er ASCII. Not sure what to do with it now. Her 'tis. the

SCUM Manifesto

by Valerie Solanas

This is the only copy of the SCUM Manifesto I've ever seen. This version was published by PHOENIX PRESS, presumably in the UK (price given as "75p"), though no contact information was provided. I have no idea what, if any, changes were made to the text. I tried to change nothing except change some obvious (to me) Anglicizations back to Americanisms (eg. empathise to empathize). The copyright is certainly retained by Valerie, where ever she is; likely jail. Seeing how it's a manifesto, and the Phoenix people don't own it either, I figured Valerie Solanas wouldn't mind my typing this all in and giving it away for free.

If you have any authoritative data, or additions to make (skip the comments on content please) please send them along, and I'll include on my archive.

-- tomj@wps.com (Tom Jennings), Jan 1994.

>From the back cover of the PHOENIX PRESS booklet: 

	"Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto was written in 1967 and
	published in 1968, the year she shot and wounded Andy
	Warhol. The text used here is that of the 1983 edition of
	the Manifesto that was published by the Matriarchy Study
	Group."

And now on with it.

the

SCUM Manifesto

by Valerie Solanas

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.

It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the mail has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

The male is completely egocentric, trapped inside himself, incapable of empathizing or identifying with others, or love, friendship, affection of tenderness. He is a completely isolated unit, incapable of rapport with anyone. His responses are entirely visceral, not cerebral; his intelligence is a mere tool in the services of his drives and needs; he is incapable of mental passion, mental interaction; he can't relate to anything other than his own physical sensations. He is a half-dead, unresponsive lump, incapable of giving or receiving pleasure or happiness; consequently, he is at best an utter bore, an inoffensive blob, since only those capable of absorption in others can be charming. He is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than the apes because, unlike the apes, he is capable of a large array of negative feelings -- hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, doubt -- and moreover, he is aware of what he is and what he isn't.

Although completely physical, the male is unfit even for stud service. Even assuming mechanical proficiency, which few men have, he is, first of all, incapable of zestfully, lustfully, tearing off a piece, but instead is eaten up with guilt, shame, fear and insecurity, feelings rooted in male nature, which the most enlightened training can only minimize; second, the physical feeling he attains is next to nothing; and third, he is not empathizing with his partner, but is obsessed with how he's doing, turning in an A performance, doing a good plumbing job. To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.

Eaten up with guilt, shame, fears and insecurities and obtaining, if he's lucky, a barely perceptible physical feeling, the male is, nonetheless, obsessed with screwing; he'll swim through a river of snot, wade nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly pussy awaiting him. He'll screw a woman he despises, any snaggle-toothed hag, and furthermore, pay for the opportunity. Why? Relieving physical tension isn't the answer, as masturbation suffices for that. It's not ego satisfaction; that doesn't explain screwing corpses and babies.

Completely egocentric, unable to relate, empathize or identify, and filled with a vast, pervasive, diffuse sexuality, the male is pyschically passive. He hates his passivity, so he projects it onto women, defines the make as active, then sets out to prove that he is (`prove that he is a Man'). His main means of attempting to prove it is screwing (Big Man with a Big Dick tearing off a Big Piece). Since he's attempting to prove an error, he must `prove' it again and again. Screwing, then, is a desperate compulsive, attempt to prove he's not passive, not a woman; but he is passive and does want to be a woman.

Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female. He attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live through an fuse with the female, and by claiming as his own all female characteristics -- emotional strength and independence, forcefulness, dynamism, decisiveness, coolness, objectivity, assertiveness, courage, integrity, vitality, intensity, depth of character, grooviness, etc -- and projecting onto women all male traits -- vanity, frivolity, triviality, weakness, etc. It should be said, though, that the male has one glaring area of superiority over the female -- public relations. (He has done a brilliant job of convincing millions of women that men are women and women are men). The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female.

Women, in other words, don't have penis envy; men have pussy envy. When the male accepts his passivity, defines himself as a woman (males as well as females thing men are women and women are men), and becomes a transvestite he loses his desire to screw (or to do anything else, for that matter; he fulfills himself as a drag queen) and gets his dick chopped off. He then achieves a continuous diffuse sexual feeling from `being a woman'. Screwing is, for a man, a defense against his desire to be female. He is responsible for:

War: The male's normal compensation for not being female, namely, getting his Big Gun off, is grossly inadequate, as he can get it off only a very limited number of times; so he gets it off on a really massive scale, and proves to the entire world that he's a `Man'. Since he has no compassion or ability to empathize or identify, proving his manhood is worth an endless amount of mutilation and suffering and an endless number of lives, including his own -- his own life being worthless, he would rather go out in a blaze of glory than to plod grimly on for fifty more years.

Niceness, Politeness, and `Dignity': Every man, deep down, knows he's a worthless piece of shit. Overwhelmed by a sense of animalism and deeply ashamed of it; wanting, not to express himself, but to hide from others his total physicality, total egocentricity, the hate and contempt he feels for other men, and to hide from himself the hate and contempt he suspects other men feel for him; having a crudely constructed nervous system that is easily upset by the least display of emotion or feeling, the male tries to enforce a `social' code that ensures perfect blandness, unsullied by the slightest trace or feeling or upsetting opinion. He uses terms like `copulate', `sexual congress', `have relations with' (to men sexual relations is a redundancy), overlaid with stilted manners; the suit on the chimp.

Money, Marriage and Prostitution, Work and Prevention of an Automated Society: There is no human reason for money or for anyone to work more than two or three hours a week at the very most. All non-creative jobs (practically all jobs now being done) could have been automated long ago, and in a moneyless society everyone can have as much of the best of everything as she wants. But there are non-human, male reasons for wanting to maintain the money system:

1. Pussy. Despising his highly inadequate self, overcome with intense anxiety and a deep, profound loneliness when by his empty self, desperate to attach himself to any female in dim hopes of completing himself, in the mystical belief that by touching gold he'll turn to gold, the male craves the continuous companionship of women. The company of the lowest female is preferable to his own or that of other men, who serve only to remind him of his repulsiveness. But females, unless very young or very sick, must be coerced or bribed into male company.

2. Supply the non-relating male with the delusion of usefulness, and enable him to try to justify his existence by digging holes and then filling them up. Leisure time horrifies the male, who will have nothing to do but contemplate his grotesque self. Unable to relate or to love, the male must work. Females crave absorbing, emotionally satisfying, meaningful activity, but lacking the opportunity or ability for this, they prefer to idle and waste away their time in ways of their own choosing -- sleeping, shopping, bowling, shooting pool, playing cards and other games, breeding, reading, walking around, daydreaming, eating, playing with themselves, popping pills, going to the movies, getting analyzed, traveling, raising dogs and cats, lolling about on the beach, swimming, watching TV, listening to music, decorating their houses, gardening, sewing, nightclubbing, dancing, visiting, `improving their minds' (taking courses), and absorbing `culture' (lectures, plays, concerts, `arty' movies). Therefore, many females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer living with males or peddling their asses on the street, thus having most of their time for themselves, to spending many hours of their days doing boring, stultifying, non-creative work for someone else, functioning as less than animals, as machines, or, at best -- if able to get a `good' job -- co-managing the shitpile. What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it.

3. Power and control. Unmasterful in his personal relations with women, the male attains to masterfulness by the manipulation of money and everything controlled by money, in other words, of everything and everybody.

4. Love substitute. Unable to give love or affection, the male gives money. It makes him feel motherly. The mother gives milk; he gives bread. He is the Breadwinner.

5. Provide the male with a goal. Incapable of enjoying the moment, the male needs something to look forward to, and money provides him with an eternal, never-ending goal: Just think of what you could do with 80 trillion dollars -- invest it! And in three years time you'd have 300 trillion dollars!!!

6. Provide the basis for the male's major opportunity to control and manipulate -- fatherhood.

Fatherhood and Mental Illness (fear, cowardice, timidity, humility, insecurity, passivity): Mother wants what's best for her kids; Daddy only wants what's best for Daddy, that is peace and quiet, pandering to his delusion of dignity (`respect'), a good reflection on himself (status) and the opportunity to control and manipulate, or, if he's an `enlightened' father, to `give guidance'. His daughter, in addition, he wants sexually -- he givers her hand in marriage; the other part is for him. Daddy, unlike Mother, can never give in to his kids, as he must, at all costs, preserve his delusion of decisiveness, forcefulness, always-rightness and strength. Never getting one's way leads to lack of self-confidence in one's ability to cope with the world and to a passive acceptance of the status quo. Mother loves her kids, although she sometimes gets angry, but anger blows over quickly and even while it exists, doesn't preclude love and basic acceptance. Emotionally diseased Daddy doesn't love his kids; he approves of them -- if they're `good', that is, if they're nice, `respectful', obedient, subservient to his will, quiet and not given to unseemly displays of temper that would be most upsetting to Daddy's easily disturbed male nervous system -- in other words, if they're passive vegetables. If they're not `good', he doesn't get angry -- not if he's a modern, `civilized' father (the old-fashioned ranting, raving brute is preferable, as he is so ridiculous he can be easily despised) -- but rather express disapproval, a state that, unlike anger, endures and precludes a basic acceptance, leaving the kid with the feeling of worthlessness and a lifelong obsession wit being approved of; the result is fear of independent thought, as this leads to unconventional, disapproved of opinions and way of life.

For the kid to want Daddy's approval it must respect Daddy, and being garbage, Daddy can make sure that he is respected only by remaining aloof, by distantness, by acting on the precept of `familiarity breeds contempt', which is, of course, true, if one is contemptible. By being distant and aloof, he is able to remain unknown, mysterious, and thereby, to inspire fear (`respect').

Disapproval of emotional `scenes' leads to fear of strong emotion, fear of one's own anger and hatred. Fear of anger and hatred combined with a lack of self-confidence in one's ability to cope with and change the world, or even to affect in the slightest way one's own destiny, leads to a mindless belief that the world and most people in it are nice and the most banal, trivial amusements are great fun and deeply pleasurable.

The affect of fatherhood on males, specifically, is to make them `Men', that is, highly defensive of all impulses to passivity, faggotry, and of desires to be female. Every boy wants to imitate his mother, be her, fuse with her, but Daddy forbids this; he is the mother; he gets to fuse with her. So he tells the boy, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly, to not be a sissy, to act like a `Man'. The boy, scared shitless of and `respecting' his father, complies, and becomes just like Daddy, that model of `Man'-hood, the all-American ideal -- the well-behaved heterosexual dullard.

The effect of fatherhood on females is to make them male -- dependent, passive, domestic, animalistic, insecure, approval and security seekers, cowardly, humble, `respectful' of authorities and men, closed, not fully responsive, half-dead, trivial, dull, conventional, flattened-out and thoroughly contemptible. Daddy's Girl, always tense and fearful, uncool, unanalytical, lacking objectivity, appraises Daddy, and thereafter, other men, against a background of fear (`respect') and is not only unable to see the empty shell behind the facade, but accepts the male definition of himself as superior, as a female, and of herself, as inferior, as a male, which, thanks to Daddy, she really is.

It is the increase of fatherhood, resulting from the increased and more widespread affluence that fatherhood needs in order to thrive, that has caused the general increase of mindlessness and the decline of women in the United States since the 1920s. The close association of affluence with fatherhood has led, for the most part, to only the wrong girls, namely, the `privileged' middle class girls, getting `educated'.

The effect of fathers, in sum, has been to corrode the world with maleness. The male has a negative Midas Touch -- everything he touches turns to shit.

Suppression of Individuality, Animalism (domesticity and motherhood), and Functionalism: The male is just a bunch of conditioned reflexes, incapable of a mentally free response; he is tied to he earliest conditioning, determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the make that he is not part of his mother, that he is he and she is she.

His greatest need is to be guided, sheltered, protected and admired by Mama (men expect women to adore what men shrink from in horror -- themselves) and, being completely physical, he yearns to spend his time (that's not spent `out in the world' grimly defending against his passivity) wallowing in basic animal activities -- eating, sleeping, shitting, relaxing and being soothed by Mama. Passive, rattle-headed Daddy's Girl, ever eager for approval, for a pat on the head, for the `respect' if any passing piece of garbage, is easily reduced to Mama, mindless ministrator to physical needs, soother of the weary, apey brow, booster of the tiny ego, appreciator of the contemptible, a hot water bottle with tits.

The reduction to animals of the women of the most backward segment of society -- the `privileged, educated' middle-class, the backwash of humanity -- where Daddy reigns supreme, has been so thorough that they try to groove on labour pains and lie around in the most advanced nation in the world in the middle of the twentieth century with babies chomping away on their tits. It's not for the kids sake, though, that the `experts' tell women that Mama should stay home and grovel in animalism, but for Daddy's; the tits for Daddy to hang onto; the labor pains for Daddy to vicariously groove on (half dead, he needs awfully strong stimuli to make him respond).

Reducing the female to an animal, to Mama, to a male, is necessary for psychological as well as practical reasons: the male is a mere member of the species, interchangeable with every other male. He has no deep-seated individuality, which stems from what intrigues you, what outside yourself absorbs you, what you're in relation to. Completely self-absorbed, capable of being in relation only to their bodies and physical sensations, males differ from each other only to the degree and in the ways they attempt to defend against their passivity and against their desire to be female.

The female's individuality, which he is acutely aware of, but which he doesn't comprehend and isn't capable of relating to or grasping emotionally, frightens and upsets him and fills him with envy. So he denies it in her and proceeds to define everyone in terms of his or her function or use, assigning to himself, of course, the most important functions -- doctor, president, scientist -- therefore providing himself with an identity, if not individuality, and tries to convince himself and women (he's succeeded best at convincing women) that the female function is to bear and raise children and to relax, comfort and boost the ego if the male; that her function is such as to make her interchangeable with every other female. In actual fact, the female function is to relate, groove, love and be herself, irreplaceable by anyone else; the male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.

In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music -- all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

Prevention of Privacy: Although the male, being ashamed of what he is and almost of everything he does, insists on privacy and secrecy in all aspects of his life, he has no real regard for privacy. Being empty, not being a complete, separate being, having no self to groove on and needing to be constantly in female company, he sees nothing at all wrong in intruding himself on any woman's thoughts, even a total stranger's, anywhere at any time, but rather feels indignant and insulted when put down for doing so, as well as confused -- he can't, for the life of him, understand why anyone would prefer so much as one minute of solitude to the company of any creep around. Wanting to become a woman, he strives to be constantly around females, which is the closest he can get to becoming one, so he created a `society' based upon the family -- a male-female could and their kids (the excuse for the family's existence), who live virtually on top of one another, unscrupuluously violating the females' rights, privacy and sanity.

Isolation, Suburbs, and Prevention of Community: Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she is exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual nu becoming a `rugged individualist', a loner, equating non-cooperation and solitariness with individuality.

There is yet another reason for the male to isolate himself: every man is an island. Trapped inside himself, emotionally isolated, unable to relate, the male has a horror of civilization, people, cities, situations requiring an ability to understand and relate to people. So like a scared rabbit, he scurries off, dragging Daddy's little asshole with him to the wilderness, suburbs, or, in the case of the hippy -- he's way out, Man! -- all the way out to the cow pasture where he can fuck and breed undisturbed and mess around with his beads and flute.

The `hippy', whose desire to be a `Man', a `rugged individualist', isn't quite as strong as the average man's, and who, in addition, is excited by the thought having lots of women accessible to him, rebels against the harshness of a Breadwinner's life and the monotony of one woman. In the name of sharing and cooperation, he forms a commune or tribe, which, for all its togetherness and partly because of it, (the commune, being an extended family, is an extended violation of the female's rights, privacy and sanity) is no more a community than normal `society'.

A true community consists of individuals -- not mere species members, not couples -- respecting each others individuality and privacy, at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally -- free spirits in free relation to each other -- and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of `society' is the family; `hippies' say the tribe; no one says the individual.

The `hippy' babbles on about individuality, but has no more conception of it than any other man. He desires to get back to Nature, back to the wilderness, back to the home of furry animals that he's one of, away from the city, where there is at least a trace, a bare beginning of civilization, to live at the species level, his time taken up with simple, non-intellectual activities -- farming, fucking, bead stringing. The most important activity of the commune, the one upon which it is based, is gang-banging. The `hippy' is enticed to the commune mainly by the prospect for free pussy -- the main commodity to be shared, to be had just for the asking, but, blinded by greed, he fails to anticipate all the other men he has to share with, or the jealousies and possessiveness for the pussies themselves.

Men cannot co-operate to achieve a common end, because each man's end is all the pussy for himself. The commune, therefore, is doomed to failure; each `hippy' will, in panic, grad the first simpleton who digs him and whisks her off to the suburbs as fast as he can. The male cannot progress socially, but merely swings back and forth from isolation to gang-banging.

Conformity: Although he wants to be an individual, the male is scared of anything in himself that is the slightest bit different from other men, it causes him to suspect that he's not really a `Man', that he's passive and totally sexual, a highly upsetting suspicion. If other men are "A" and he's not, he must not be a man; he must be a fag. So he tries to affirm his `Manhood' by being like all the other men. Differentness in other men, as well as himself, threatens him; it means they're fags whom he must at all costs avoid, so he tries to make sure that all other men conform.

The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the drag queen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all the other drag queens like the functionalist, he has an identity -- he is female. He tries to define all his troubles away -- but still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman, highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively to the man-made stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted mannerisms.

To be sure he's a `Man', the male must see to it that the female be clearly a `Woman', the opposite of a `Man', that is, the female must act like a faggot. And Daddy's Girl, all of whose female instincts were wrenched out of her when little, easily and obligingly adapts herself to the role.

Authority and Government: Having no sense of right and wrong, no conscience, which can only stem from having an ability to empathize with others... having no faith in his non-existent self, being unnecessarily competitive, and by nature, unable to co-operate, the male feels a need for external guidance and control. So he created authorities -- priests, experts, bosses, leaders, etc -- and government. Wanting the female (Mama) to guide him, but unable to accept this fact (he is, after all, a MAN), wanting to play Woman, to usurp her function as Guider and Protector, he sees to it that all authorities are male.

There's no reason why a society consisting of rational beings capable of empathizing with each other, complete and having no natural reason to compete, should have a government, laws or leaders.

Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Based on Sex: The male's inability to relate to anybody or anything makes his life pointless and meaningless (the ultimate male insight is that life is absurd), so he invented philosophy and religion. Being empty, he looks outward, not only for guidance and control, but for salvation and for the meaning of life. Happiness being for him impossible on this earth, he invented Heaven.

For a man, having no ability to empathize with others and being totally sexual, `wrong' is sexual `license' and engaging in `deviant' (`unmanly') sexual practices, that is, not defending against his passivity and total sexuality which, if indulged, would destroy `civilization', since `civilization' is based entirely upon the male need to defend himself against these characteristics. For a woman (according to men), `wrong' is any behavior that would entice men into sexual `license' -- that is, not placing male needs above her own and not being a faggot.

Religion not only provides the male with a goal (Heaven) and helps keep women tied to men, but offers rituals through which he can try to expiate the guilt and shame he feels at not defending himself enough against his sexual impulses; in essence, that guilt and shame he feels at being male.

Most men men, utterly cowardly, project their inherent weaknesses onto women, label them female weaknesses and believe themselves to have female strengths; most philosophers, not quite so cowardly, face the fact that make lacks exist in men, but still can't face the fact that they exist in men only. So they label the male condition the Human Condition, post their nothingness problem, which horrifies them, as a philosophical dilemma, thereby giving stature to their animalism, grandiloquently label their nothingness their `Identity Problem', and proceed to prattle on pompously about the `Crisis of the Individual', the `Essence of Being', `Existence preceding Essence', `Existential Modes of Being', etc. etc.

A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love.

Prejudice (racial, ethnic, religious, etc): The male needs scapegoats onto whom he can project his failings and inadequacies and upon whom he can vent his frustration at not being female. And the vicarious discriminations have the practical advantage of substantially increasing the pussy pool available to the men on top.

Competition, Prestige, Status, Formal Education, Ignorance and Social and Economic Classes: Having an obsessive desire to be admired by women, but no intrinsic worth, the make constructs a highly artificial society enabling him to appropriate the appearance of worth through money, prestige, `high' social class, degrees, professional position and knowledge and, by pushing as many other men as possible down professionally, socially, economically, and educationally.

The purpose of `higher' education is not to educate but to exclude as many as possible from the various professions.

The male, totally physical, incapable of mental rapport, although able to understand and use knowledge and ideas, is unable to relate to them, to grasp them emotionally: he does not value knowledge and ideas for their own sake (they're just means to ends) and, consequently, feels no need for mental companions, no need to cultivate the intellectual potentialities of others. On the contrary, the male has a vested interest in ignorance; it gives the few knowledgeable men a decided edge on the unknowledgeable ones, and besides, the male knows that an enlightened, aware female population will mean the end of him. The healthy, conceited female wants the company of equals whom she can respect and groove on; the male and the sick, insecure, unself-confident male female crave the company of worms.

No genuine social revolution can be accomplished by the male, as the male on top wants the status quo, and all the male on the bottom wants is to be the male on top. The male `rebel' is a farce; this is the male's `society', made by him to satisfy his needs. He's never satisfied, because he's not capable of being satisfied. Ultimately, what the male `rebel' is rebelling against is being male. The male changes only when forced to do so by technology, when he has no choice, when `society' reaches the stage where he must change or die. We're at that stage now; if women don't get their asses in gear fast, we may very well all die.

Prevention of Conversation: Being completely self-centered and unable to relate to anything outside himself, the male's `conversation', when not about himself, is an impersonal droning on, removed from anything of human value. Male `intellectual conversation' is a strained compulsive attempt to impress the female.

Daddy's Girl, passive, adaptable, respectful of and in awe of the male, allows him to impose his hideously dull chatter on her. This is not too difficult for her, as the tension and anxiety, the lack of cool, the insecurity and self-doubt, the unsureness of her own feelings and sensations that Daddy instilled in her make her perceptions superficial and render her unable to see that the male's babble is babble; like the aesthete `appreciating' the blob that's labeled `Great Art', she believes she's grooving on what bores the shit out of her. Not only does she permit his babble to dominate, she adapts her own `conversation' accordingly.

Trained from an early childhood in niceness, politeness and `dignity', in pandering to the male need to disguise his animalism, she obligingly reduces her own `conversation' to small talk, a bland, insipid avoidance of any topic beyond the utterly trivial -- or is `educated', to `intellectual' discussion, that is, impersonal discoursing on irrelevant distractions -- the Gross National Product, the Common Market, the influence of Rimbaud on symbolist painting. So adept is she at pandering that it eventually becomes second nature and she continues to pander to men even when in the company of other females only.

Apart from pandering, her `conversation' is further limited by her insecurity about expressing deviant, original opinions and the self-absorption based on insecurity and that prevents her conversation from being charming. Niceness, politeness, `dignity', insecurity and self-absorption are hardly conducive to intensity and wit, qualities a conversation must have to be worthy of the name. Such conversation is hardly rampant, as only completely self-confident, arrogant, outgoing, proud, tough-minded females are capable of intense, bitchy, witty conversation.

Prevention of Friendship (Love): Men have contempt for themselves, for all other men whom they contemplate more than casually and whom they do not think are females, (for example `sympathetic' analysts and `Great Artists') or agents of God and for all women who respect and pander to them: the insecure, approval-seeking, pandering male-females have contempt for themselves and for all women like them: the self-confident, swinging, thrill-seeking female females have contempt for me and for the pandering male females. In short, contempt is the order of the day.

Love is not dependency or sex, but friendship, and therefore, love can't exist between two males, between a male and a female, or between two females, one or both of whom is a mindless, insecure, pandering male; like conversation, live can exist only between two secure, free-wheeling, independent groovy female females, since friendship is based upon respect, not contempt.

Even amongst groovy females deep friendships seldom occur in adulthood, as almost all of them are either tied up with men in order to survive economically, or bogged down in hacking their way through the jungle and in trying to keep their heads about the amorphous mass. Love can't flourish in a society based upon money and meaningless work: it requires complete economic as well as personal freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship. Our `society' provides practically no opportunity to engage in such activities.

Having stripped the world of conversation, friendship and love, the male offers us these paltry substitutes:

`Great Art' and `Culture': The male `artist' attempts to solve his dilemma of not being able to live, of not being female, by constructing a highly artificial world in which the male is heroized, that is, displays female traits, and the female is reduced to highly limited, insipid subordinate roles, that is, to being male.

The male `artistic' aim being, not to communicate (having nothing inside him he has nothing to say), but to disguise his animalism, he resorts to symbolism and obscurity (`deep' stuff). The vast majority of people, particularly the `educated' ones, lacking faith in their own judgment, humble, respectful of authority (`Daddy knows best'), are easily conned into believing that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, ambiguity and boredom are marks of depth and brilliance.

`Great Art' proves that men are superior to women, that men are women, being labeled `Great Art', almost all of which, as the anti-feminists are fond of reminding us, was created by men. We know that `Great Art' is great because male authorities have told us so, and we can't claim otherwise, as only those with exquisite sensitivities far superior to ours can perceive and appreciated the slop they appreciated.

Appreciating is the sole diversion of the `cultivated'; passive and incompetent, lacking imagination and wit, they must try to make do with that; unable to create their own diversions, to create a little world of their own, to affect in the smallest way their environments, they must accept what's given; unable to create or relate, they spectate. Absorbing `culture' is a desperate, frantic attempt to groove in an ungroovy world, to escape the horror of a sterile, mindless, existence. `Culture' provides a sop to the egos of the incompetent, a means of rationalizing passive spectating; they can pride themselves on their ability to appreciate the `finer' things, to see a jewel where this is only a turd (they want to be admired for admiring). Lacking faith in their ability to change anything, resigned to the status quo, they have to see beauty in turds because, so far as they can see, turds are all they'll ever have.

The veneration of `Art' and `Culture' -- besides leading many women into boring, passive activity that distracts from more important and rewarding activities, from cultivating active abilities, and leads to the constant intrusion on our sensibilities of pompous dissertations on the deep beauty of this and that turn. This allows the `artist' to be setup as one possessing superior feelings, perceptions, insights and judgments, thereby undermining the faith of insecure women in the value and validity of their own feelings, perceptions, insights and judgments.

The male, having a very limited range of feelings, and consequently, very limited perceptions, insights and judgments, needs the `artist' to guide him, to tell him what life is all about. But the male `artist' being totally sexual, unable to relate to anything beyond his own physical sensations, having nothing to express beyond the insight that for the male life is meaningless and absurd, cannot be an artist. How can he who is not capable of life tell us what life is all about? A `male artist' is a contradiction in terms. A degenerate can only produce degenerate `art'. The true artist is every self-confident, healthy female, and in a female society the only Art, the only Culture, will be conceited, kooky, funky, females grooving on each other and on everything else in the universe.

Sexuality: Sex is not part of a relationship: on the contrary, it is a solitary experience, non-creative, a gross waste of time. The female can easily -- far more easily than she may think -- condition away her sex drive, leaving her completely cool and cerebral and free to pursue truly worthy relationships and activities; but the male, who seems to dig women sexually and who seeks out constantly to arouse them, stimulates the highly sexed female to frenzies of lust, throwing her into a sex bag from which few women ever escape. The lecherous male excited the lustful female; he has to -- when the female transcends her body, rises above animalism, the male, whose ego consists of his cock, will disappear.

Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male `culture', in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our `society' are raving sex maniacs. But, being just awfully, awfully nice, they don't, of course descend to fucking -- that's uncouth -- rather they make love, commune by means of their bodies and establish sensual rapport; the literary ones are attuned to the throb of Eros and attain a clutch upon the Universe; the religious have spiritual communion with the Divine Sensualism; the mystics merge with the Erotic Principle and blend with the Cosmos, and the acid heads contact their erotic cells.

On the other hand, those females least embedded in the male `Culture', the least nice, those crass and simple souls who reduce fucking to fucking, who are too childish for the grown-up world of suburbs, mortgages, mops and baby shit, too selfish to raise kids and husbands, too uncivilized to give a shit for anyones opinion of them, too arrogant to respect Daddy, the `Greats' or the deep wisdom of the Ancients, who trust only their own animal, gutter instincts, who equate Culture with chicks, whose sole diversion is prowling for emotional thrills and excitement, who are given to disgusting, nasty upsetting `scenes', hateful, violent bitches given to slamming those who unduly irritate them in the teeth, who'd sink a shiv into a man's chest or ram an icepick up his asshole as soon as look at him, if they knew they could get away with it, in short, those who, by the standards of our `culture' are SCUM... these females are cool and relatively cerebral and skirting asexuality.

Unhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, `morals', the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets around... and around and around... they've seen the whole show -- every bit of it -- the fucking scene, the dyke scene -- they've covered the whole waterfront, been under every dock and pier -- the peter pier, the pussy pier... you've got to go through a lot of sex to get to anti-sex, and SCUM's been through it all, and they're now ready for a new show; they want to crawl out from other the dock, move, take off, sink out. But SCUM doesn't yet prevail; SCUM's still in the gutter of our `society', which, if it's not deflected from its present course and if the Bomb doesn't drop on it, will hump itself to death.

Boredom: Life in a society made by and for creatures who, when they are not grim and depressing are utter bores, van only be, when not grim and depressing, an utter bore.

Secrecy, Censorship, Suppression of Knowledge and Ideas, and Exposes: Every male's deep-seated, secret, most hideous fear is of being discovered to be not a female, but a male, a subhuman animal. Although niceness, politeness and `dignity' suffice to prevent his exposure on a personal level, in order to prevent the general exposure of the male sex as a whole and to maintain his unnatural dominant position position in `society', the male must resort to:

1. Censorship. Responding reflexively to isolated works and phrases rather than cereberally to overall meanings, the male attempts to prevent the arousal and discovery of his animalism by censoring not only `pornography', but any work containing `dirty' words, no matter in what context they are used.

2. Suppression of all ideas and knowledge that might expose him or threaten his dominant position in `society'. Much biological and psychological data is suppressed, because it is proof of the male's gross inferiority to the female. Also, the problem of mental illness will never be solved while the male maintains control, because first, men have a vested interest in it -- only females who have very few of their marbles will allow males the slightest bit of control over anything, and second, the male cannot admit to the role that fatherhood plays in causing mental illness.

3. Exposes. The male's chief delight in life -- insofar as the tense, grim male can ever be said to delight in anything -- is in exposing others. It doesn't' much matter what they're exposed as, so long as they're exposed; it distracts attention from himself. Exposing others as enemy agents (Communists and Socialists) is one of his favorite pastimes, as it removes the source of the threat to him not only from himself, but from the country and the Western world. The bugs up his ass aren't in him, they're in Russia.

Distrust: Unable to empathize or feel affection or loyalty, being exclusively out for himself, the male has no sense of fair play; cowardly, needing constantly to pander to the female to win her approval, that he is helpless without, always on the edge lest his animalism, his maleness be discovered, always needing to cover up, he must lie constantly; being empty he has not honor or integrity -- he doesn't know what those words mean. The male, in short, is treacherous, and the only appropriate attitude in a male `society' is cynicism and distrust.

: Being totally sexual, incapable of cerebral or aesthetic responses, totally materialistic and greedy, the male, besides inflicting on the world `Great Art', has decorated his unlandscaped cities with ugly buildings (both inside and out), ugly decors, billboards, highways, cars, garbage trucks, and, most notably, his own putrid self.

Hatred and Violence: The male is eaten up with tension, with frustration at not being female, at not being capable of ever achieving satisfaction or pleasure of any kind; eaten up with hate -- not rational hate that is directed at those who abuse or insult you -- but irrational, indiscriminate hate... hatred, at bottom, of his own worthless self.

Gratuitous violence, besides `proving' he's a `Man', serves as an outlet for his hate and, in addition -- the male being capable only of sexual responses and needing very strong stimuli to stimulate his half-dead self -- provides him with a little sexual thrill..

: All diseases are curable, and the aging process and death are due to disease; it is possible, therefore, never to age and to live forever. In fact the problems of aging and death could be solved within a few years, if an all-out, massive scientific assault were made upon the problem. This, however, will not occur with the male establishment because:

1. The many male scientists who shy away from biological research, terrified of the discovery that males are females, and show marked preference for virile, `manly' war and death programs.

2. The discouragement of many potential scientists from scientific careers by the rigidity, boringness, expensiveness, time-consumingness, and unfair exclusivity of our `higher' educational system.

3. Propaganda disseminated by insecure male professionals, who jealously guard their positions, so that only a highly select few can comprehend abstract scientific concepts.

4. Widespread lack of self-confidence brought about by the father system that discourages many talented girls from becoming scientists.

5. Lack of automation. There now exists a wealth of data which, if sorted out and correlated, would reveal the cure for cancer and several other diseases and possibly the key to life itself. But the data is so massive it requires high speed computers to correlate it all. The institution of computers will be delayed interminably under the male control system, since the male has a horror of being replaced by machines.

6. The money systems' insatiable need for new products. Most of the few scientists around who aren't working on death programs are tied up doing research for corporations.

7. The males like death -- it excites him sexually and, already dead inside, he wants to die.

8. The bias of the money system for the least creative scientists. Most scientists come from at least relatively affluent families where Daddy reigns supreme.

Incapable of a positive state of happiness, which is the only thing that can justify one's existence, the male is, at best, relaxed, comfortable, neutral, and this condition is extremely short-lived, as boredom, a negative state, soon sets in; he is, therefore, doomed to an existence of suffering relieved only by occasional, fleeting stretches of restfulness, which state he can only achieve at the expense of some female. The male is, by his very nature, a leech, an emotional parasite and, therefore, not ethically entitled to live, as no one as the right to life at someone else's expense.

Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.

However, this moral issue will eventually be rendered academic by the fact that the male is gradually eliminating himself. In addition to engaging in the time-honored and classical wars and race riots, men are more and more either becoming fags or are obliterating themselves through drugs. The female, whether she likes it or not, will eventually take complete charge, if for no other reason than that she will have to -- the male, for practical purposes, won't exist.

Accelerating this trend is the fact that more and more males are acquiring enlightened self-interest; they're realizing more and more that the female interest is in their interest, that they can live only through the female and that the more the female is encouraged to live, to fulfill herself, to be a female and not a male, the more nearly he lives; he's coming to see that it's easier and more satisfactory to live through her than to try to become her and usurp her qualities, claim them as his own, push the female down and claim that she's a male. The fag, who accepts his maleness, that is, his passivity and total sexuality, his femininity, is also best served by women being truly female, as it would then be easier for him to be male, feminine. If men were wise they would seek to become really female, would do intensive biological research that would lead to me, by means of operations on the brain and nervous system, being able t to be transformed in psyche, as well as body, into women.

Whether to continue to use females for reproduction or to reproduce in the laboratory will also become academic: what will happen when every female, twelve and over, is routinely taking the Pill and there are no longer any accidents? How many women will deliberately get or (if an accident) remain pregnant? No, Virginia, women don't just adore being brood mares, despite what the mass of robot, brainwashed women will say. When society consists of only the fully conscious the answer will be none. Should a certain percentage of men be set aside by force to serve as brood mares for the species? Obviously this will not do. The answer is laboratory reproduction of babies.

As for the issue of whether or not to continue to reproduce males, it doesn't follow that because the male, like disease, has always existed among us that he should continue to exist. When genetic control is possible -- and soon it will be -- it goes without saying that we should produce only whole, complete beings, not physical defects of deficiencies, including emotional deficiencies, such as maleness. Just as the deliberate production of blind people would be highly immoral, so would be the deliberate production of emotional cripples.

Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us.

Eventually the natural course of events, of social evolution, will lead to total female control of the world and, subsequently, to the cessation of the production of males and, ultimately, to the cessation of the production of females.

But SCUM is impatient; SCUM is not consoled by the thought that future generations will thrive; SCUM wants to grab some thrilling living for itself. And, if a large majority of women were SCUM, they could acquire complete control of this country within a few weeks simply by withdrawing from the labor force, thereby paralyzing the entire nation. Additional measures, any one of which would be sufficient to completely disrupt the economy and everything else, would be for women to declare themselves off the money system, stop buying, just loot and simply refuse to obey all laws they don't care to obey. The police force, National Guard, Army, Navy and Marines combined couldn't squelch a rebellion of over half the population, particularly when it's made up of people they are utterly helpless without.

If all women simply left men, refused to have anything to do with any of them -- ever, all men, the government, and the national economy would collapse completely. Even without leaving men, women who are aware of the extent of their superiority to and power over men, could acquire complete control over everything within a few weeks, could effect a total submission of males to females. In a sane society the male would trot along obediently after the female. The male is docile and easily led, easily subjected to the domination of any female who cares to dominate him. The male, in fact, wants desperately to be led by females, wants Mama in charge, wants to abandon himself to her care. But this is not a sane society, and most women are not even dimly aware of where they're at in relation to men.

The conflict, therefore, is not between females and males, but between SCUM -- dominant, secure, self-confident, nasty, violent, selfish, independent, proud, thrill-seeking, free-wheeling, arrogant females, who consider themselves fit to rule the universe, who have free-wheeled to the limits of this `society' and are ready to wheel on to something far beyond what it has to offer -- and nice, passive, accepting `cultivated', polite, dignified, subdued, dependent, scared, mindless, insecure, approval-seeking Daddy's Girls, who can't cope with the unknown, who want to hang back with the apes, who feel secure only with Big Daddy standing by, with a big strong man to lean on and with a fat, hairy face in the White House, who are too cowardly to face up to the hideous reality of what a man is, what Daddy is, who have cast their lot with the swine, who have adapted themselves to animalism, feel superficially comfortable with it and know no other way of `life', who have reduced their minds, thoughts and sights to the male level, who, lacking sense, imagination and wit can have value only in a male `society', who can have a place in the sun, or, rather, in the slime, only as soothers, ego boosters, relaxers and breeders, who are dismissed as inconsequents by other females, who project their deficiencies, their maleness, onto all females and see the female as worm.

But SCUM is too impatient to wait for the de-brainwashing of millions of assholes. Why should the swinging females continue to plod dismally along with the dull male ones? Why should the fates of the groovy and the creepy be intertwined? Why should the active and imaginative consult the passive and dull on social policy? Why should the independent be confined to the sewer along with the dependent who need Daddy to cling to? A small handful of SCUM can take over the country within a year by systematically fucking up the system, selectively destroying property, and murder:

SCUM will become members of the unwork force, the fuck-up force; they will get jobs of various kinds an unwork. For example, SCUM salesgirls will not charge for merchandise; SCUM telephone operators will not charge for calls; SCUM office and factory workers, in addition to fucking up their work, will secretly destroy equipment. SCUM will unwork at a job until fired, then get a new job to unwork at.

SCUM will forcibly relieve bus drivers, cab drivers and subway token sellers of their jobs and run buses and cabs and dispense free tokens to the public.

SCUM will destroy all useless and harmful objects -- cars, store windows, `Great Art', etc.

Eventually SCUM will take over the airwaves -- radio and TV networks -- by forcibly relieving of their jobs all radio and TV employees who would impede SCUM's entry into the broadcasting studios.

SCUM will couple-bust -- barge into mixed (male-female) couples, wherever they are, and bust them up.

SCUM will kill all men who are not in the Men's Auxiliary of SCUM. Men in the Men's Auxiliary are those men who are working diligently to eliminate themselves, men who, regardless of their motives, do good, men who are playing pall with SCUM. A few examples of the men in the Men's Auxiliary are: men who kill men; biological scientists who are working on constructive programs, as opposed to biological warfare; journalists, writers, editors, publishers and producers who disseminate and promote ideas that will lead to the achievement of SCUM's goals; faggots who, by their shimmering, flaming example, encourage other men to de-man themselves and thereby make themselves relatively inoffensive; men who consistently give things away -- money, things, services; men who tell it like it is (so far not one ever has), who put women straight, who reveal the truth about themselves, who give the mindless male females correct sentences to parrot, who tell them a woman's primary goal in life should be to squash the male sex (to aid men in this endeavor SCUM will conduct Turd Sessions, at which every male present will give a speech beginning with the sentence: `I am a turd, a lowly abject turd', then proceed to list all the ways in which he is. His reward for doing so will be the opportunity to fraternize after the session for a whole, solid hour with the SCUM who will be present. Nice, clean-living male women will be invited to the sessions to help clarify any doubts and misunderstandings they may have about the male sex; makers and promoters of sex books and movies, etc., who are hastening the day when all that will be shown on the screen will be Suck and Fuck (males, like the rats following the Pied Piper, will be lured by Pussy to their doom, will be overcome and submerged by and will eventually drown in the passive flesh that they are); drug pushers and advocates, who are hastening the dropping out of men.

Being in the Men's Auxiliary is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for making SCUM's escape list; it's not enough to do good; to save their worthless asses men must also avoid evil. A few examples of the most obnoxious or harmful types are: rapists, politicians and all who are in their service (campaigners, members of political parties, etc); lousy singers and musicians; Chairmen of Boards; Breadwinners; landlords; owners of greasy spoons and restaraunts that play Muzak; `Great Artists'; cheap pikers and welchers; cops; tycoons; scientists working on death and destruction programs or for private industry (practically all scientists); liars and phonies; disc jockies; men who intrude themselves in the slightest way on any strange female; real estate men; stock brokers; men who speak when they have nothing to say; men who sit idly on the street and mar the landscape with their presence; double dealers; flim-flam artists; litterbugs; plagiarisers; men who in the slightest way harm any female; all men in the advertising industry; psychiatrists and clinical psychologists; dishonest writers, journalists, editors, publishers, etc.; censors on both the public and private levels; all members of the armed forces, including draftees (LBJ and McNamara give orders, but servicemen carry them out) and particularly pilots (if the bomb drops, LBJ won't drop it; a pilot will). In the case of a man whose behavior falls into both the good and bad categories, an overall subjective evaluation of him will be made to determine if his behavior is, in the balance, good or bad.

It is most tempting to pick off the female `Great Artists', liars and phonies etc along with the men, but that would be inexpedient, as it would not be clear to most of the public that the female killed was a male. All women have a fink streak in them, to a greater or lesser degree, but it stems from a lifetime of living among men. Eliminate men and women will shape up. Women are improvable; men are no, although their behavior is. When SCUM gets hot on their asses it'll shape up fast.

Simultaneously with the fucking-up, looting, couple-busting, destroying and killing, SCUM will recruit. SCUM, then, will consist of recruiters; the elite corps -- the hard core activists (the fuck-ups, looters and destroyers) and the elite of the elite -- the killers.

Dropping out is not the answer; fucking-up is. Most women are already dropped out; they were never in. Dropping out gives control to those few who don't drop out; dropping out is exactly what the establishment leaders want; it plays into the hands of the enemy; it strengthens the system instead of undermining it, since it is based entirely on the non-participating, passivity, apathy and non-involvement of the mass of women. Dropping out, however, is an excellent policy for men, and SCUM will enthusiastically encourage it.

Looking inside yourself for salvation, contemplating your navel, is not, as the Drop Out people would have you believe, the answer. Happiness likes outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good, and thus gets credit for being deep.

SCUM will not picket, demonstrate, march or strike to attempt to achieve its ends. Such tactics are for nice, genteel ladies who scrupulously take only such action as is guaranteed to be ineffective. In addition, only decent, clean-living male women, highly trained in submerging themselves in the species, act on a mob basis. SCUM consists of individuals; SCUM is not a mob, a blob. Only as many SCUM will do a job as are needed for the job. Also SCUM, being cool and selfish, will not subject to getting itself rapped on the head with billy clubs; that's for the nice, `privileged, educated', middle-class ladies with a high regard for the touching faith in the essential goodness of Daddy and policemen. If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President's stupid, sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade.

SCUM will always operate on a criminal as opposed to a civil disobedience basis, that is, as opposed to openly violating the law and going to jail in order to draw attention to an injustice. Such tactics acknowledge the rightness overall system and are used only to modify it slightly, change specific laws. SCUM is against the entire system, the very idea of law and government. SCUM is out to destroy the system, not attain certain rights within it. Also, SCUM -- always selfish, always cool -- will always aim to avoid detection and punishment. SCUM will always be furtive, sneaky, underhanded (although SCUM murders will always be known to be such).

Both destruction and killing will be selective and discriminate. SCUM is against half-crazed, indiscriminate riots, with no clear objective in mind, and in which many of your own kind are picked off. SCUM will never instigate, encourage or participate in riots of any kind or other form of indiscriminate destruction. SCUM will coolly, furtively, stalk its prey and quietly move in for the kill. Destruction will never me such as to block off routes needed for the transportation of food or other essential supplies, contaminate or cut off the water supply, block streets and traffic to the extent that ambulances can't get through or impede the functioning of hospitals.

SCUM will keep on destroying, looting, fucking-up and killing until the money-work system no longer exists and automation is completely instituted or until enough women co-operate with SCUM to make violence unnecessary to achieve these goals, that is, until enough women either unwork or quit work, start looting, leave men and refuse to obey all laws inappropriate to a truly civilized society. Many women will fall into line, but many others, who surrendered long ago to the enemy, who are so adapted to animalism, to maleness, that they like restrictions and restraints, don't know what to do with freedom, will continue to be toadies and doormats, just as peasants in rice paddies remain peasants in rice paddies as one regime topples another. A few of the more volatile will whimper and sulk and throw their toys and dishrags on the floor, but SCUM will continue to steamroller over them.

A completely automated society can be accomplished very simply and quickly once there is a public demand for it. The blueprints for it are already in existence, and it's construction will take only a few weeks with millions of people working on it. Even though off the money system, everyone will be most happy to pitch in and get the automated society built; it will mark the beginning of a fantastic new era, and there will be a celebration atmosphere accompanying the construction.

The elimination of money and the complete institution of automation are basic to all other SCUM reforms; without these two the others can't take place; with them the others will take place very rapidly. The government will automatically collapse. With complete automation it will be possible for every woman to vote directly on every issue by means of an electronic voting machine in her house. Since the government is occupied almost entirely with regulating economic affairs and legislating against purely private matters, the elimination of money wand with it the elimination of males who wish to legislate `morality' will mean there will be practically no issues to vote on.

After the elimination of money there will be no further need to kill men; they will be stripped of the only power they have over psychologically independent females. They will be able to impose themselves only on the doormats, who like to be imposed on. The rest of the women will be busy solving the few remaining unsolved problems before planning their agenda for eternity and Utopia -- completely revamping educational programs so that millions of women can be trained within a few months for high level intellectual work that now requires years of training (this can be done very easily once out educational goal is to educate and not perpetuate an academic and intellectual elite); solving the problems of disease and old age and death and completely redesigning our cities and living quarters. Many women will for a while continue to think they dig men, but as they become accustomed to female society and as they become absorbed in their projects, they will eventually come to see the utter uselessnes and banality of the male.

The few remaining men can exist out their puny days dropped out on drugs or strutting around in drag or passively watching the high-powered female in action, fulfilling themselves as spectators, vicarious livers*[FOOTNOTE: It will be electronically possible for him to tune into any specific female he wants to and follow in detail her every movement. The females will kindly, obligingly consent to this, as it won't hurt them in the slightest and it is a marvelously kind and humane way to treat their unfortunate, handicapped fellow beings.] or breeding in the cow pasture with the toadies, or they can go off to the nearest friendly suicide center where they will be quietly, quickly, and painlessly gassed to death.

Prior to the institution of automation, to the replacement of males by machines, the male should be of use to the female, wait on her, cater to her slightest whim, obey her every command, be totally subservient to her, exist in perfect obedience to her will, as opposed to the completely warped, degenerate situation we have now of men, not only not only not existing at all, cluttering up the world with their ignominious presence, but being pandered to and groveled before by the mass of females, millions of women piously worshiping the Golden Calf, the dog leading the master on a leash, when in fact the male, short of being a drag queen, is least miserable when his dogginess is recognized -- no unrealistic emotional demands are made of him and the completely together female is calling the shots. Rational men want to be squashed, stepped on, crushed and crunched, treated as the curs, the filth that they are, have their repulsiveness confirmed.

The sick, irrational men, those who attempt to defend themselves against their disgustingness, when they see SCUM barrelling down on them, will cling in terror to Big Mama with her Big Bouncy Boobies, but Boobies won't protect them against SCUM; Big Mama will be clinging to Big Daddy, who will be in the corner shitting in his forceful, dynamic pants. Men who are rational, however, won't kick or struggle or raise a distressing fuss, but will just sit back, relax, enjoy the show and ride the waves to their demise.

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-- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU Tue Feb 1 22:25:28 1994 Received: from ucscb.UCSC.EDU by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA09918; Tue, 1 Feb 94 22:25:23 -0800 Received: by ucscb.UCSC.EDU (5.65/1.34) id AA12803; Tue, 1 Feb 94 22:24:37 -0800 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 94 22:24:37 -0800 From: sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Michael-Jay Demarco Conui) Message-Id: <9402020624.AA12803@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> To: shit-list@fido.wps.com, tomj@wps.com Subject: Re: SCUM Manifesto Thank-you TJ. I will make much use of thgis FABulous effort of yours!!! --th'Deke Motif From flesh Fri Feb 4 12:33:44 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA05244; Fri, 4 Feb 94 12:33:30 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9402042033.AA05244@wps.com> Subject: (fwd) The Day the Yippies Took Over Disneyland (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 12:33:30 -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: 5702 Forwarded message: From tjames@netcom.com Thu Feb 3 12:41:34 1994 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 12:42:05 -0800 From: tjames@netcom.com (Tjames Madison) Message-Id: <199402032042.MAA22562@mail.netcom.com> To: flesh@wps.com Subject: (fwd) The Day the Yippies Took Over Disneyland Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.disney Organization: Zen Arcade Xref: netcom.com alt.folklore.urban:113482 rec.arts.disney:30710 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.disney Path: netcom.com!snopes From: snopes@netcom.com (snopes) Subject: The Day the Yippies Took Over Disneyland Message-ID: Organization: California State University, Northridge Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 04:42:09 GMT Lines: 83 I'm surprised this hasn't ever come up before. Doesn't anyone remember the day the Yippies took over Disneyland? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 August 1970 Disneyland Closed 6 Hours Early by Longhair Invasion Disneyland provided the stage Thursday for wild scenes of Yippie street theater, but it was a show that had no appeal for many of the visitors or the Disneyland management, which closed the park at 7 p.m. -- six hours early. About 300 long-haired youths invaded the Orange County attraction in celebration of Yippie Day. Disneyland officials gave refunds or rainchecks to almost 30,000 "straight" visitors after closing the park. Most of the tourists watched the radical circus with toleration, but by the end of the day tempers wore thin and parents grew weary of obscenities shouted in the faces of children and grandmothers. Fistfights and arguments broke out, and riot police, called for the first time in the history of the park, helped harried Disney security guards clear the grounds. Hours after the park was officially closed, police were still trying to clear about 50 reluctant longhairs from the area. Anaheim Police Department riot squad officers, outfitted in body armor and face masks and carrying riot batons, arrested 18 youths, mainly for gate-crashing or disturbing the peace. The longhairs, urged on by posters and notices in Southern California's underground press, showed up at the park about noon, apparently intent on "freaking out" the tourists. They stormed Tom Sawyer's Island, ran up the Viet Cong flag over the fort there, and turned on in Tomorrowland. They were met in minor confrontations by Anaheim police and almost established a strike headquarters in the Disneyland City Hall. According to the advance notices, the longhair invasion was in observance of "Yippie Day," and to mark the anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack on Japan. The notices promised a celebration in the best, raucous Yippie tradition. For years, Disneyland has had a policy of excluding longhairs from the grounds. That policy -- "unwritten," according to a park official -- was relaxed this year. But a dress code still in effect insists that all patrons wear shirts and shoes. The first Yippie Day celebrators in the park gathered on the drawbridge to Sleeping Beauty's Castle. When the Disneyland Band made its regular circuit down Main Street, the younger band, in full regalia of buckskin fringe, blue denim and tie-die shirts, followed along, chanting: "Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh is going to win." Other chants lauded Charles Manson as a revolutionary hero. The longhairs snake-danced through the park, taking in the attractions en masse. Gathering enthusiasm and numbers as they went, the longhairs were scattered into small groups by Anaheim police. But they gathered again and quickly established a beachhead on Tom Sawyer's Island -- and eventually controlled it completely. There they ran up the Viet Cong flag, sang, danced and passed around marijuana. About 6 p.m., the Yippies, now numbering 300 to 350, attempted to storm Disneyland City Hall. Officers held them back. One youth hoisted a black flag with a red star and a superimposed marijuana leaf. As it was torn down, a woman stepped from behind her baby carriage and shouted at the crowd to stop yelling obscenities in the presence of children. Later, as the youths went on still another march down Main Street, a fistfight erupted between a longhair and a tourist. "Why don't they leave us alone?" an elderly woman said. Then Donald Tatum, Disneyland manager, ordered the park closed. Loudspeakers advised patrons to follow security guards and clear the park. Later, Jack Lindquist, Disneyland's director of marketing, said: "We went out of our way to show that two widely differing groups could have fun together at the same place. And only a couple of hundred spoiled it for everyone." Two hours later, police said, a group of 50 longhairs were dispersed when they tried to occupy Disneyland Hotel. As they left, visitors saw them snapping radio antennae off cars in the parking lot. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |"[Disney's machine] has placed a Mickey Mouse hat on every little developing | | personality in America. As capitalism, it is a work of genius; as culture, | | it is mostly a horror." -- Richard Schickel, "The Disney Version" | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David P. Mikkelson Calif. State Univ., Northridge Northridge, CA USA | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- -- "If you dare condemn my life it will come after you with a sharpened rake." - steven jesse bernstein From flesh Fri Feb 4 14:06:14 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA05566; Fri, 4 Feb 94 14:06:06 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9402042206.AA05566@wps.com> Subject: Re: (fwd) The Day the Yippies Took Over Disneyland (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 14:06:06 -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: 3756 Forwarded message: From jeneric@netcom.com Fri Feb 4 13:59:09 1994 From: jeneric@netcom.com (Eric Benvenue-Jennings) Message-Id: <199402042159.NAA13637@mail.netcom.com> Subject: Re: (fwd) The Day the Yippies Took Over Disneyland (fwd) To: flesh@wps.com (Flesh) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 13:59:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <9402042033.AA05244@wps.com> from "Flesh" at Feb 4, 94 12:33:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3216 > I'm surprised this hasn't ever come up before. Doesn't anyone remember > the day the Yippies took over Disneyland? > > Disneyland Closed 6 Hours Early by Longhair Invasion > > Disneyland provided the stage Thursday for wild scenes of Yippie street > theater, but it was a show that had no appeal for many of the visitors or the > Disneyland management, which closed the park at 7 p.m. -- six hours early. > About 300 long-haired youths invaded the Orange County attraction in > celebration of Yippie Day. <> > Gathering enthusiasm and numbers as they went, the longhairs were > scattered into small groups by Anaheim police. But they gathered again and > quickly established a beachhead on Tom Sawyer's Island -- and eventually > controlled it completely. There they ran up the Viet Cong flag, sang, danced > and passed around marijuana. This reminds me of something. A couple years ago I attended the first Lollapalooza concert when it stopped here in Atlanta. There was a nice mix of heads (stoners, metalheads, punks, rappers, not many yups) and positioned close to where I was hanging out in the back of the crowd was a young dreaded out white kid selling sweetgrass braids for smudging. Needless to say some bouncer type assholes came by to put a stop to this dangerous and uncapitalistic (seriously, the only reason they couldn't let this kid alone was that they weren't getting their cut, right?) youth. Maybe it was because I lived in the bay area for seven years, I don't know, maybe it was just the shrooms, anyway I knew immediately what the situation called for. If enough of us in the crowd would casually and very innocently just start moving around we could easily fuck things up enough to give the kid a healthy head start. Try as I might, I got no help from anybody, just a bunch of wierd looks. Think about it, what would the bouncers have been able to do if they suddenly found themselves surrounded by fifty very strange looking people who did nothing but, I don't know, how about "booed" at them? It would have been so easy to have thwarted the authoritarian assholes without resorting to anything more than a simple mind-fuck. What's the point? I don't know. Is it, *gee those were the days*? I hope not. What ever happened to good old fashioned (and fun!) subversion for it's own sake? I was too young to be a yippie but when I was about 14 I wrote a really cheesy poem that went something like, I want to be a hippy, it'd be so cool I want to be a yippy, Im no fool Give me the lazy life, one of ease Give me the hippy life, it'd be a breeze I'm tired of regulations, I don't want no rules Let's tear up the registrations, and burn all the schools There were a few more lines and, as you can see, it was a really bad poem, but, hey, at least the sentiment was there. Christ, I've even been thinking about getting a real job. Don't worry, I won't rush into anything stupid - I'll think it over for the next couple of years! Well, enough babbling, just consider this a *Howdy* from the bible belt. just call me tj's little brother, -- jeneric@wps.com From tomj Mon Feb 7 22:43:00 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA16271; Mon, 7 Feb 94 22:42:48 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9402080642.AA16271@wps.com> Subject: FIRST CYPHERPUNKS VIRTUAL MEETING (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 22:42:48 -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: 3760 It is considered gauche in current nettiquete to forward mail from a somewhat-private conference, but (1) cypherpunks is a large, large list and (2) the audience here is small. Also -- if you cared to take part in this, you would be most welcome. To a large extent the cypherpunks remain civil, and it's a pretty smart and friendly bunch. Lots of people of the "L" Persuasion (ie. libertarian, big and little "L"). Hell I might drop in just to see how it works. I've never played with MUDs and MOOs, somehow, my interest in shit like this dropped to zero some years ago. Too little of somethingorother, too much physical work to say anything. But it will be a good test of the technology to see if it proves useful; cypherpunks is both narrow enough and broad enough to test it (as well as savvy enough to pull it off.) Forwarded message: From hughes@ah.com Mon Feb 7 22:33:45 1994 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 22:25:52 -0800 Message-Id: <9402080625.AA00608@ah.com> To: cypherpunks-announce@toad.com Subject: FIRST CYPHERPUNKS VIRTUAL MEETING From: arthurc@crl.com Sender: hughes@ah.com FIRST CYPHERPUNKS VIRTUAL MEETING AT BAYMOO The first cypherpunks virtual conference will be held at BayMOO on Wednesday, February 9, at 8pm PST (11 EST). To get there: telnet (or use a client) mud.crl.com 8888 Follow instructions for login. Type help for any topic when you get into the MOO. @go Cypherpunk Central to get to the main room, then type HALL to get to the conference hall. One of the virtues of this hall is that there can be large scale AND small scale discussions going on at the same time. Here, briefly, is how it works: A. People login and go the Cypherpunk Hall B. One person can assume the facilitator's chair. This allows the facilitator to set several options for the room's function. C. In one mode, the facilitator allows open conversation: any can speak, and all can be heard. D. In another mode, the facilitator sets the allowable number of speakers. Those wishing to speak must request permission from the facilitator, who can set the number anywhere from one on up. Those wishing to speak must request, and are given a place in line; when any of the current speakers yield, the next in line move up automatically to speaker status. E. BUT -- and here is the ingenious feature of this conference room-- folks can sit in any of 8 rows. If they speak while sitting in those rows and the room is in facilitated mode, only those sitting in their row can hear them. The net effect is that small conversations can take place within the larger room, but they do not interrupt the main course of the moderated discussion. F. In addition, the virtual meeting room also has a built-in [about] function. This feature allows all participants to indicate, by a bracketed phrase in front of their names, the topic under discussion. In this way, if the subject begins to drift, explicit acknowledgement of the change can be made in the [about] header. Example: agore [about clipperchips]: So you see, we really have your welfare at heart. hthoreau [about clipperchips]: I decline your help. agore [about help]: Are you arguing that the government should just let illicit operations take place unmonitored? hthoreau [about interference]: That depends... This conference hall is still beta, so be patient if buglets appear. I'll also try to put in a virtual bar for more laid-back chat. The bar will be connected to Cypherpunk Central. Just examine the bartender to see how to order drinks -- or to concoct your own. Hope to see you there! -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Wed Feb 9 18:25:00 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA22576; Wed, 9 Feb 94 18:24:43 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9402100224.AA22576@wps.com> Subject: light bulbs (fwd) (A computer joke, sorry) To: shit-list Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 18:24:43 -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: 359 Forwarded message: From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush) Subject: light bulbs Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 07:35:00 -0800 (PST) Heard in Zuerich Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. Marketing declares darkness to be the industry standard. -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Wed Feb 9 19:41:35 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA23160; Wed, 9 Feb 94 19:41:17 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9402100341.AA23160@wps.com> Subject: Cu Digest, #6.13 (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 19:41:15 -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: 17266 An article or two from: Computer underground Digest Sun Feb 6, 1994 Volume 6 : Issue 13 ISSN 1004-042X Date: 31 Jan 1994 16:26:51 -0600 From: ROBERTS@DECUS.CA(Rob Slade, Ed. DECrypt & ComNet, VARUG rep, Subject: File 2--"DIGITAL WOES" by Wiener (Book Review) BKDGTLWO.RVW 931223 Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Heather Rignanesi, Marketing, x340, 73171.657@Compuserve.com P.O. Box 520 26 Prince Andrew Place Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2T8 416-447-5101 fax: 416-443-0948 or Tiffany Moore, Publicity tiffanym@aw.com Bob Donegon bobd@aw.com John Wait, Editor, Corporate and Professional Publishing johnw@aw.com Tom Stone, Editor, Higher Education Division tomsto@aw.com 1 Jacob Way Reading, MA 01867-9984 800-822-6339 617-944-3700 Fax: (617) 944-7273 5851 Guion Road Indianapolis, IN 46254 800-447-2226 "Digital Woes", Wiener, 1993, 0-201-62609-8, U$22.95/C$29.95 lauren@reed.edu When reviewing books on technical topics, one quickly learns to dread the work of those who do not actually practice in the field. (Yes, we are told that Wiener is a technical writer. They may very well be professionals, but the overwhelming majority are not technical professionals.) With this prejudice firmly in place, it came as a delightful surprise to find that "Digital Woes" is an accurate, well-researched, and thoroughly engaging treatment of the subject of software risks. Chapter one is a list of specific examples of software failures, large and small. The stories are thoroughly documented and well told. The choice of examples is careful, and useful as well, covering a variety of problems. One could, of course, add to the list. In the virus field programs are extremely limited in function and rarely exceed 3000 bytes in length, yet almost every viral strain shows some programming pathology; most of the damage seems to be done by mistake. The user interfaces of antivirals are subject to hot debate, perhaps more importantly than in other systems because of the risks involved in misunderstanding. In regard to decision support, I recall the assumption, on the part of Excel, that everyone wants to use linear forecasting. Everyone involved in technical fields will be able to add other specific examples. For those uninvolved, Wiener's work is quite sufficient and convincing. Chapter two is an explanation of why software contains bugs, and why software errors are so deadly. Techies will feel somewhat uncomfortable with the lack of jargon, but persevere. Initially, I thought she had missed the point of the difference between analogue and digital systems--until I realized I was in the middle of a complete and clear explanation that never had to use the word "analog". (Technopeasants will, of course, appreciate the lack of jargon. Rest assured that the same ease of reading and clarity of language holds throughout the book.) Chapter three examines the various means used to try to ensure the reliability of software--usually with a depressing lack of success. As with all who have worked in the field, I can relate to the comments regarding the difficulty of testing. At one point I uncovered a bug in the third minor variant of the fourth major release of the fifth generation of a communications program. Apparently I was the first person on staff who had ever wanted to keep a running log between sessions--and the functions I used combined to completely lock up the computer. Most RISKS-FORUM readers will by now be nodding and muttering, "So what else is new". However, Wiener here proves herself capable of some valuable and original contributions beyond the pronouncements of those working in the field. Noting that she is familiar with programmers who have never, in twenty years of work, had their code incorporated into a delivered product, she raises the issue of what this type of work environment does to the psyche of the worker. My grandfather carved the wooden decorations in our church, and, fifty years after his death, I can still point that out. However, in a career of analysis, training and support, I can point to little beyond an amount of Internet bandwidth consumed. (Many would say "wasted".) To the ephemeral nature of the craft, though, one must add the legacy of constant failure. Martin Seligman's "Learned Helplessness" points out the danger quite clearly. A similar thought was voiced some years ago over the impact on developing youth of the then new video games, and the fact that you could advance through levels but never, ultimately, win. These children are grown now. You may know them as "Generation X". Chapter four deals with means to prevent failure. Actually most of the material discusses recovery--assuming that the system will eventually fail, how to ensure that the failure causes the least damage. Chapter five is entitled "Big Plans" and looks at various proposed new technologies and the risks inherent in them. In this discussion Wiener warns against those who are overly thrilled with the promises of the new technology. I agree, but I would caution that public debate is also dominated by those strident with fear. The arguments of both sides tend to entrench to defeat the opposition, while the public, itself, sits bemused in the middle without knowing whom to believe. It is a major strength of Wiener's work that the field is explored thoroughly and in an unbiased manner. Many books which try to present an objective view of a controversial problem tend to trail off into meaningless weasel-words, but the final chapter here concerns "The Wise Use of Smart Stuff." Wiener lists a good set of criteria to use in evaluating a proposed system. The one item I would recommend be toned down is the axiom that personal care be excluded. I keep an old Berke Breathed "Bloom County" cartoon in my office wherein Opus, the Penguin, berates a computer for depriving him of his humanity until the bemused machine attempts to confirm that Opus is human. The perceived coldness of our institutions is often illusory. I once worked in a geriatric hospital and thought it a shame that our culture did not keep aging parents at home. Until, that is, I lived in a culture that did, and found that the "technology" of our hospitals provided more human contact to the old folks than did the "organic" home care. I also note that the belittled ELIZA is the only program to have passed the Turing test so far. A limited, unexpected, and hilarious pass, perhaps, but a pass nonetheless. I note, as I am reviewing this book, a press release by a headhunting agency that half of all executives are computer illiterate. The survey method is extremely suspect, and I assume these figures are so kind as to be ridiculous. I would heartily recommend this work to technical and non-technical workers alike. Particularly, though, I recommend it to those executives who are the ones to make the ultimate decisions on major projects. Please re-read it after the next vendor demo you attend. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1993 BKDGTLWO.RVW 931223 Postscriptum - my wife agrees with Peter Denning that I tend to editorialize in my reviews. This is likely true. "Digital Woes", however, deals with a topic which has prompted many editorials--and deals with it well. Permission granted to distribute with unedited copies of the Digest ====================== DECUS Canada Communications, Desktop, Education and Security group newsletters Editor and/or reviewer ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733 DECUS Symposium '94, Vancouver, BC, Mar 1-3, 1994, contact: rulag@decus.ca ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 94 15:24:24 EST From: Urnst Kouch/Crypt Newsletter <70743.1711@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: File 3--Review: "Computer Viruses, Artificial Life & Evolution" Just after Christmas, on December 27th, Addison-Wesley France was served with a temporary legal notice prohibiting the distribution of its recently published French language edition of Mark Ludwig's "Little Black Book of Computer Viruses, Volume 1." Entitled "Naissance d'un Virus," or "Birth of a Virus," the French edition was selling for about $50 cash money. The company is also distributing a disk containing copies of Ludwig's TIMID, INTRUDER, KILROY and STEALTH viruses separately for a few dollars more. However, before the ink was dry on the paper a French judge dismissed the complaint, said Ludwig between laughs during a recent interview. Addison-Wesely France, he said, subsequently worked the fuss into good publicity, enhancing demand for "Naissance d'un Virus." Almost simultaneously, Ludwig has published through his American Eagle corporation, its follow-up: "Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution," which will come as a great surprise to anyone expecting "The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses, Part II." For those absent for the history, "The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses," upon publication, was almost uniformly denounced - by the orthodox computer press - as the work of someone who must surely be a dangerous sociopath. Most magazines refused to review or mention it, under the working assumption that to even speak about viruses for an extended length - without selling anti-virus software - only hastens the digital disintegration of the world. Ludwig found himself engaged in a continued battle for advertising for his book, losing contracts without notice while the same publications continued to stuff their pages with spreads for cosmological volumes of pornography. This has always been a curious, but consistent, hypocrisy. The real truth, for the entirety of the mainstream computer press, is that it has _always_ been OK for anyone among the citizenry - including children - to potentially rot their minds with various digital pictographic perversions; it is not OK for the same audience to have the potential to electronically rot their computers' files with Ludwig's simple viruses, none of which are in the wild over a year after publication of the book. Another consideration the mainstream journals must deal with is that if they were to suddenly and unilaterally control pornographic advertising, the loss in revenue would cause some of them to fail. In the end, it's always been a money thing. Pornographers have it. Mark Ludwig is only one account. [This has gotten more interesting since one of the larger computer porn advertisers, the manufacturer of the CD-ROM "For Adults Only (FAO) Gold" collection, has also entered the virus business, selling issues of the virus-programming journal 40HEX on its "Forbidden Secrets" CD-ROM. The "Forbidden Secrets" disk has been advertised in the same full-page ads as the "FAO Gold" collections.] Not surprisingly, the controversy has kept sales of "The Little Black Book" brisk since its initial printing and financed the expansion of American Eagle. Which brings us, finally, to "Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution," a book which takes a hard scientific look at life and the theory of evolution, and only incidentally contains working viruses. To grapple with the underlying philosophy behind "CVAL&E," its helpful to know Ludwig was a physics major at Caltech in Pasadena, CA, at a time when Nobel-laureate theoretical physicists Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann were in residence. The ruthlessness with which these scientists dealt with softer disciplines not up to the task of thorough theoretical analysis coupled with the academic meat-grinder that is Caltech's reputation, casts its shadow on "CVAL&E." Ludwig writes in the introduction: ". . . Once I was a scientist of scientists. Born in the age of Sputnik, and raised in the home of a chemist, I was enthralled with science as a child. If I wasn't dissolving pennies in acid, I was winding an electromagnet, or playing with a power transistor, or . . . freezing ants with liquid propane. When I went to MIT for college I finally got my chance to totally immerse myself in my first love. I did rather well at it too, finishing my undergraduate work in two years and going on to study elementary particle physics under Nobel laureates at Caltech. Yet by the time I got my doctorate the spell was forever broken . . . I saw less and less of the noble scientist and more and more of the self-satisfied expert." And this sets the tenor for the rest of the book, as Ludwig analyzes Darwinian evolution and, by the standards of intellectual rigor imposed by post-War theoretical physics, declares it even more squishy than theories of quantum gravity and black holes; the answer as to how present day life came from the primordial soup of biopolymers is always skittering away out of reach in an impenetrable fog of hypothetical bullshit. It's not clear at all how a mixture of even the most complex biomacromolecules resulted in predecessors of _E. coli_, the simplest algae or any precursors of the archaebacteria, without resorting to creationism or spontaneous generation. Ludwig - using some heavy math - chews the probabilities up and spits them out as miraculous, not very helpful when you're wearing the traditional scientist's hat. Then he does the same for the simplest of computer viruses - using as examples a disk copying program which, if altered in one line of instructions, can be made into a primitive boot sector virus. To understand the material fully is a tough job; if you don't have some experience with statistical thermodynamics, probabilistic studies and differential equations, frankly, it will take you a while to get up to the speed where the lion's share of "CVA&E" doesn't lose you. Ludwig's science is good, his understanding of basic biochmemistry and microbiology solid enough to support any arguments made as he works his way through the inadequacies of evolution. Unlike Steven Levy's "Artificial Life," Ludwig makes no chirpy assertions that such as the Brain virus are a mere step away from animation. Instead, in "CVA&E" he asks the reader to concede that Darwinian theory doesn't seen likely to explain anything about genesis satisfying to pure determinists. And, outside of whole-heartedly buying into astronomer Fred Hoyle's ideas about freeze-dried virus and bacterial suspensions frozen in cometary ice and dropped into the atmosphere as seed from the depths of space, research into the dawn of life of Earth is going nowhere fast. So Ludwig asks us not to discard computer viruses and computerized artificial life as potential tools to look at the problem. By the finish Ludwig, of course, hasn't come up with the answer either. And, he admits, you have to fudge a bit - maybe a lot - to swallow the contemporary ideas about artificial life. And then he takes another risk by asking readers to entertain the fancy that if we don't get a handle on some fresh ideas about evolution and the origins of life, sooner or later something will show up in our backyard and get a handle on us. It's a wild ride, but an enjoyable one. "CVAL&E" also includes some interesting programs, most notably SLIP-Scan, a variably encrypting virus which uses the Trident Polymorphic Encryptor and a code construct Ludwig calls the Darwinian Genetic Mutation Engine. This engine, which Ludwig has written to mimic a simple gene, encodes constantly changing information within the virus that is used to modulate the operation of the Trident encryptor, thus confering on the virus a directed evolution in successive generations sensitive to the presence of anti-virus software elimination of replicants in large numbers of infections. SLIP-Scan replicates and places a segment of information produced by the Darwinian Engine in an unused portion of computer memory, where it is read by a different member of the SLIP-Scan population and used to hybridize the data carried in the subsequent progeny. Ludwig has made this a computerized mimic of one of the simplest ways in which bacteria exchange genetic information, via small connecting tubes through the medium called pili. In SLIP-Scan's case, computer RAM is the bridge through the environment along which the "genetic" material is transferred between virus offspring. The result of this is that polymorphic progeny of SLIP-Scan not caught by anti-virus software slowly are selected in a Darwinian manner for offspring which cannot be detected. While this might sound threatening, the population of viruses required to demonstrate the effect is such that it is unlikely it would be a factor on real world computers, even if the virus were in the wild. The winning program in Ludwig's First International Virus Writing Contest is also in "CVAL&E." Written by a virus programmer known as Stormbringer, the Companion-101 virus is used by the author to work out the probability of viruses evolving into different variations through faults in computer memory and translation. "Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution" is an intriguing, thorough read. If you go looking for it, be prepared to spend some time. [American Eagle, POB 41401, Tucson, AZ 85717] ------------------------------ End of Computer Underground Digest #6.13 ************************************ -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Mon Feb 14 13:23:50 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA05683; Mon, 14 Feb 94 13:23:42 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9402142123.AA05683@wps.com> Subject: protest made easy... To: shit-list Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 13:23:42 -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: 1123 CPSR (Computer Professionals For Social responsibility) are putting together a couple of petitions. You can add your name to them simply by sending email with the text-in-quotes below, anywhere within the message body. (SOme machinery scans for it automatically.) Clipper is the incredibly stupid system the Feds are mking a big push (as of a week ago) to pass. It's realyl bad policy. HR 3627 is about encryption and such, I just read a fair amount about it less than a week ago, and now can't recall anything, except its a "good thing" from a civil-liberty POV. Sigh. Max, could you run this in FidoNews? Of course it's only pertinent to us USers, but it has some impact on non-USers cuz the feds want this shit exported -- Clipper especialyl is reputed to have a back door, and hence furrin nationals data encrypted thusly isn't safe from the Amurrican data police! If you have a unix shell, do this: echo "I oppose clipper" | mail clipper.petition@cpsr.org echo "I support H.R. 3627" | mail cantwell@eff.org -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Mon Feb 21 13:46:45 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA11067; Mon, 21 Feb 94 13:46:40 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9402212146.AA11067@wps.com> Subject: International Connectivity list To: shit-list Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 13:46:39 -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: 12764 Imperialism continued, or Reach out and Take someones Money. Or maybe it's not that bad. I'm uncertain. the two-letter code in the table is the domain for that country, ie. ".ca" is Canada (aka 51st State, or is that Puerto Rico, nahh, ain't worth as much money). Message-Id: <9402212129.AA10679@toad.com> To: tomj@wps.com, randy@psg.com Subject: International Connectivity list Date: Mon, 21 Feb 94 13:29:48 -0800 From: gnu@toad.com ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 12:14:39 -0500 From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber) Subject: International Connectivity To: interesting-people@eff.org (interesting-people mailing list) The following is a list of countries reachable via the Internet .. djf Date: Mon, 21 Feb 94 11:05:54 -0600 From: lhl@cs.wisc.edu (L.H. Landweber) To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu Subject: International Connectivity Dave Here is the latest list. Regards Larry PS Five days after this was published, Peru joined the Internet. - -------------------------- INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIVITY Version 10 - February 15, 1994 Please send corrections, information and/or comments to: Larry Landweber Computer Sciences Dept. University of Wisconsin - Madison 1210 W. Dayton St. Madison, WI 53706 lhl@cs.wisc.edu FAX 1-608-265-2635 Include details, e.g., on connections, sites, contacts, protocols, etc. Thanks to the many people from around the world who have provided information. This version (postscript, ditroff, text forms), maps in postscript, and earlier versions may also be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.wisc.edu in the connectivity_table directory. In the following, "BITNET" is used generically to refer to BITNET plus similar networks around the world (e.g., EARN, NETNORTH, GULFNET, etc.). SUMMARY NUMBER OF ENTITIES WITH INTERNATIONAL NETWORK CONNECTIVITY = 146 NUMBER OF ENTITIES WITHOUT INTERNATIONAL NETWORK CONNECTIVITY = 91 BITNET Col. 2 (Entities with international BITNET links.) b: minimal, one to five domestic BITNET sites, 19 entities B: widespread, more than five domestic BITNET sites, 32 entities IP INTERNET Col. 3 (Entities with international IP Internet links.) I: = operational, accessible from entire open IP Internet, 62 entities UUCP Col. 4 (Entities with domestic UUCP sites which are connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet.) u: minimal, one to five domestic UUCP sites, 57 entities U: widespread, more than five domestic UUCP sites, 68 entities FIDONET Col. 5 (Entities with domestic FIDONET sites which are connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet) f: minimal, one to five domestic FIDONET sites, 29 entities F: widespread, more than five domestic FIDONET sites, 59 entities OSI Col. 6 (Entities with international X.400 links to domestic sites which are connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet). o: minimal, one to five domestic X.400 sites, 8 entities O: widespread, more than five domestic X.400 sites, 23 entities ISO 3166 country codes are included in the Table for each entity. Note that these do not always agree with the top level DNS code(s) used for a particular country. Network connections to Algeria and Lebanon will soon be operational. Testing of network connections to Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines is underway. ----- AF Afghanistan (Islamic Republic of) ----- AL Albania (Republic of) ----- DZ Algeria (People's Democratic Republic of) ----- AS American Samoa ----- AD Andorra (Principality of) ----- AO Angola (People's Republic of) ----- AI Anguilla -I--- AQ Antarctica ----- AG Antigua and Barbuda BIUF- AR Argentina (Argentine Republic) --U-- AM Armenia ---f- AW Aruba -IUFo AU Australia BIUFO AT Austria (Republic of) --U-- AZ Azerbaijan ----- BS Bahamas (Commonwealth of the) b---- BH Bahrain (State of) ----- BD Bangladesh (People's Republic of) --u-- BB Barbados --UF- BY Belarus BIUFO BE Belgium (Kingdom of) --u-- BZ Belize ----- BJ Benin (People's Republic of) --Uf- BM Bermuda ----- BT Bhutan (Kingdom of) --U-- BO Bolivia (Republic of) ----- BA Bosnia-Herzegovina --uf- BW Botswana (Republic of) ----- BV Bouvet Island BIUFO BR Brazil (Federative Republic of) ----- IO British 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Landweber and the Internet Society. Unlimited permission to copy or use is hereby granted subject to inclusion of this copyright notice. ------- End of Forwarded Message -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Tue Feb 22 13:01:47 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA14712; Tue, 22 Feb 94 13:01:43 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9402222101.AA14712@wps.com> Subject: Zapatismo (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 13:01:43 -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: 6739 General news. Max, is this FidoNet worthy? It's a shit stirrer at least. And points out the need for more damned comm. to Mexico! Why isn't there more! (partly rhetorical, I am dimly aware of the power/phone situation in rural Mexico). My fear is that any Mexican BBSs would be owned by well off/propertied types, and might not be very supportive of the Chiapa rebellion. Forwarded message: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 94 15:45:34 EST From: dmandl@lehman.com (David Mandl) To: tomj@wps.com Subject: Zapatismo Reply-To: dmandl@panix.com Oh, yeah...Peter [Lamborn Wilson] asked me to send you a copy of this. (You may have already seen it by now.) --D. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ZAPATISMO --------- 1. The Zapatista uprising in Chiapas has suddenly taken on a certain importance. Despite its small scale it has not yet been crushed, apparently because the PRI fears public outrage. Moreover, municipalities in various places in Mexico have been taken over by various groups in sympathy with the Zapatistas. This news has been blacked out of U.S. media, doubtless for reasons connected with NAFTA. If the PRI begins to totter, U.S. involvement becomes probable. 2. A reading of Zapatista communiques and manifestos (as translated by the RESIST! group in California) reveals a program completely in keeping with the principles of E. Zapata himself--modified for contemporary relevance but basically anarcho-agrarian--"Tierra y Libertad." As anarchists we should remember that Zapata's goals were supported by the Flores Magon brothers, who worked behind the front organization of the "Mexican Liberal Party," but were in fact out-&- out revolutionary anarchists. In 1911, European and N. American anarchists ranging from individualists to wobblies participated in the short-lived Republic of Tiajuana. The revolt in Chiapas which began last New Year's Eve would appear to be the first non-authoritarian movement with real revolutionary potential since Paris '68 or Italy in the early '70s. We should not let marxist-leninist groups in the U.S. "monopolize" the Zapatistas. We should demonstrate our support, and we should make it clear that we offer this support _as anarchists_. 3. Moreover, it seems possible for ALL tendencies within the anarchist movement to join in offering this support. Anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, wobblies, and others with historical reasons to welcome a rebirth of Zapatismo, will need no convincing. As for the individualists, post-Situ's, "Type 3's," etc., we should consider that the Chiapas uprising is a courageous adventure in the spirit of human freedom. The Zapatistas themselves have evoked the romanticism of revolt by choosing their name. "Romanticism" is a value despised only by those too cynical or too tired to remember that--from an "existential" p.o.v.--revolt is an end in itself. 4. It's important to note that Chiapas seems to be the first real "post-1989" radical uprising. The involvement of the USSR helped change the Sandinista movement (also named after an anarchist) into an authoritarian government. But this time there is no USSR to get involved. Zapatista documents make no reference to marxist-leninist forms of organization. (The NY Times even went so far as to call the Zapatistas "post-modern"!) For the first time since 1916 we don't have to watch our backs or protect our flank against leninism--or stalinism. Anarchism is _free to act_. 5. Some anarchists may dislike the involvement of "Liberation Theology" in the Zapatista movement. But since 1989 the meaning of Liberation Theology has also changed or shifted. The Vatican, which tacitly encouraged Lib. Theol. as a wedge into marxism in Latin America, now no longer needs it and has virtually reduced it to the status of a near-heresy. In theory, Lib. Theol. must by now be purged of its "jesuit" wing and its "marxist" wing, leaving only the sincere radicals. The religious situation in Chiapas is very complex, involving Mayan/Christian syncretistic cults, and other churches beside the Roman Catholics. As yet the presence of organized religions in Chiapas seems to offer no real obstacle to anarchist enthusiasm for Zapatismo. 6. The Stirnerite anarchist Ret Marut adopted the "existential" position (see para. 3 above) when he joined the Bavarian Soviet of 1919 with Gustav Landauer and other anarchists. Escaping a death sentence in Munich, Marut fled to Mexico and changed his name to B. Traven. In the early '20s he lived for a while in Chiapas and wrote a book about it (unfortunately never translated). Traven went on to write the best of all anarchist adventure novels--_The Deathship_, _The Wobbly_, _Treasure of the Sierra Madre_, and above all his _Mahogony_ series, set in Chipas during the Mexican Revolution. When Traven died he was buried in San Cristobal--where the Zapatista revolt broke out last New Year's Eve. Traven is someone we might remember, not only because he was a "gringo" who loved Chiapas and supported the Revolution, but also because he transcended all limited "ideological" anarchist tendencies to embrace a grand vision of human tragedy, endurance, and freedom. 7. As of this writing the Zapatistas have called on radicals outside Mexico for support but have not yet specified what form they'd like it to take. Obviously, in light of the media black-out, _spreading the word_ has top priority. Sending medicine and supplies, etc., may soon become both necessary and possible. Given the very great chance of U.S. involvement to protect the PRI and NAFTA, we should begin the organization of domestic resistance networkds _now_, so as not to be caught napping again. The anarchist press should remain closely informed, and should provide background as well as news (one of our numbers is in Mexico now, looking for real info). The authors of this letter are prepared to join with any responsible non-authoritarian support group which might emerge. If you are organizing or would like to help organize on behalf of Zapatismo, or if you have information for broadcast, please contact us. Tierra y Libertad! Feb. 14, 1994 Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade Box 113 WBAI-Pacifica 505 Eighth Ave. NYC, NY 10018 (email: dmandl@panix.com) Please distribute widely. -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Tue Feb 22 14:39:28 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA15035; Tue, 22 Feb 94 14:39:19 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9402222239.AA15035@wps.com> Subject: ha ha only serious To: shit-list Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 14:39:18 -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: 1913 Subject: AP-CA--Shilts Memorial (TOPS) This section is from the document '/AP/AP'. >From apadmin@kksf.tbo.com Tue Feb 22 13:44:59 1994 Service-Level-Designator: v = Reserved for Wire Services Story-Number: 0392 Selector-Code: 0ca-n Prioity: r = Regular Catagory: n = State and Regional (AP) Format-Identifier: Body-Type Text Keyword: AP-CA--ShiltsMemorial(TO Story-Date: 02-22 Word-Count: 0233 Subject: AP-CA--Shilts Memorial (TOPS) ------------------- ! California News ! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Religious Extremists Chased From Memorial Service For Gay Journalist -------------------------------------------------------------------- News Directors: Note language (San Francisco) -- More than one thousand mourners gathered today in San Francisco to honor pioneering gay journalist Randy Shilts and to counter picketing threatened by the head of a fundamentalist Kansas church. Shilts, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle who began covering the scourge of AIDS before it had a name, died last Wednesday of the disease he wrote about in news stories and in books. As ranks of riot-clad police stood guard in the streets around Glide Memorial Church, a throng milled outside. Many carried signs opposing the Reverand Fred Phelps, minister of the Westboro Baptist Church and Library in Topeka. About a dozen Phelps supporters arrived about 20 minutes after the service started, carrying signs bearing such slogans as ``Shilts in Hell,'' and ``Fags burn in hell.'' They were greeted with a deafening chorus of boos and a volley of eggs and fruit and quickly fled in vans parked nearby, with a police escort. AP-NY-02-22-94 1645EST -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From @mail.uunet.ca:exlibris!max@tdkcs Wed Mar 2 14:15:31 1994 Received: from relay1.UU.NET by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA00475; Wed, 2 Mar 94 14:15:01 -0800 Received: from seraph.uunet.ca (via uunet.ca) by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AAwfns01378; Wed, 2 Mar 94 17:14:36 -0500 Received: from xenitec.xenitec.on.ca ([142.77.5.3]) by mail.uunet.ca with SMTP id <87664(3)>; Wed, 2 Mar 1994 17:13:32 -0500 Received: from tdkcs by xenitec.xenitec.on.ca id aa21880; 2 Mar 94 17:10 EST Received: by tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (smail2.5) id AA11025; 2 Mar 94 16:18:18 EST (Wed) Received: by exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Wed, 02 Mar 94 16:00:24 EST for shit-list@fido.wps.com To: shit-list@fido.wps.com Subject: licenceing virtual reality? From: Sylvia Maxwell Message-Id: Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 15:56:50 -0500 Organization: Fidonews, editors saw this on a Fidonet Echo and was amazed. Is this for real? legislating immaginations!? ======================================================= Area Newschat, Msg#292, Feb-21-94 10:18:00 From: Kenneth Dawe To: All Subject: WA State gov'tal madness Any Washingtonians out there, you'd better check your state's congresscritters, ASAP! The bill in question is # 7164, the Public Health & Safety Act of 1994, sponsered by Senator Phil Talmadge. Excerpts follow: Section 706: (1) A license is required for the comercial use of virtual reality technology for entertainment or purposes other than bona fide education, training, research, and development. Section 702: (4) "Virtual Reality" means any computer or other electronic technology that creates an enhanced illusion of three-dimensional, real-time or near-real-time interactive realirt through the use of software, specialized hardware, holograms, gloves, masks, glasses, computer guns, or other item capable of producing visual, audio, and sensory effects of verismilitude beyond those available with a personal computer. Senator Talmadge sez "VR will permit 'a realistic illusion of killing another person and such an illusion will make it easier for someone to go out and actually commit a crime outside of VR.'" (Quoting my source quoting Talmadge. Said source telephones Talmadge's office on the bill, talked to an aid. Further quotes:) "It isn't just media and entertainment. I specifically compared VR censorship to being as offensive as banning sales of murder mysteries at B. Dalton's. Response: Sale of violent novels wil also be covered in this bill. I went on to ask about limiting bullet sales for hunting purposes. This is also specifically addressed in the bill." ". . . I asked the official at Talmadge's office about this. {What constitutes VR?} From his point of view, anything with a CPU in it is fair game. Nintendo, 3DO, and Sega sounded like prime candidates for this bill's targets. . ." Collect your copies of Castle Wolfenstein, especially 3D, there may be an underground market in them! Now, is this a suggestion of things to come? When Billary get _their_ Health Care plan rolling, will it look like this? Will we be limited, as my source suggests, to nothing "more violent than Rainbow Bright cartoon(s), or reading anything more violent than Joy of Cooking, or doing anything more violent than meditation. (knitting is out because you might stab someone with the needles.)" ... Those who give up liberty for security, deserve neither. B Franklin --- Blue Wave/RA v2.12 [NR] * Origin: Murphy's Laws BBS, Where things go rong!!! (1:128/175) SEEN-BY: 12/12 221/100 192 300 1000 1100 PATH: 128/175 68 84 1 209/209 270/101 12/12 221/100 -------------------------------- From tomj Mon Mar 7 09:42:12 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA01321; Mon, 7 Mar 94 09:40:15 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9403071740.AA01321@wps.com> Subject: The Hunt (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 09:40:14 -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: 7203 Newsgroups: alt.internet.services From: rgates@locust.cic.net (Rick Gates) Subject: March Hunt Questions Date: 7 Mar 1994 09:12:40 GMT ***************************************************************** * * * THE INTERNET HUNT * * * * QUESTIONS FOR MARCH, 1994 * * * * (answers due by Midnight, March 13, (GMT -0700) * * * * Maximum Points: 40 * * * ***************************************************************** Sorry, but this is an hour and a half late (if you consider Mountain Time and all that). Some system down time (both mine and the host's) slowed me up a bit. Would have been even later except that I'm now beginning to receive some... HELP FOR THE HUNT ================== A group of stalwart individuals have decided to forgo the joys of Hunt competition and instead help come up with the questions that torture you all so well. They are a fine and diverse group of people, and they will help evolve the Hunt into whatever form it takes in the future. We're just starting to gel, so you can expect to hear more from them as the ball gets rolling (though a few of their questions are below). I'm very glad to have their help, and I salute them all! So, here is the usual boilerplate... THE RULES --------- 1. There are a total of 11 questions. These all count toward your score. I have personally verified that each of these can be answered using only the resources of the Net. These are contrived questions. 2. There is no mystery question this time. 3. Each of these first 11 questions carries a value in parentheses. This point value is my best guess on how tough that question is to answer. The scale is 1 (easy), to 10 (hard). Total points for all questions is listed after the last question. 4. Answer as many questions as you can. Partial credit is awarded. 5. Teams are allowed to submit entries. These must be designated as such. Pick a team name. Team entries will be scored separately from individual entries. 6. All answers must be mailed to me. My standard signature will be at the bottom of this message. 7. The contest will run for one week from the date of posting of this message. The deadline should appear in the header at the top of this message. 8. Feel free to send me potential question for the Hunt, be they scored, or mystery. 9. I consider this and all Hunt files to be in the public domain. 10. Have fun! What's it all for, after all? SCORING ------- 1. Whoever correctly answers all the questions first shall be declared the winner. 2. In the event that nobody answers all the questions, the player with the highest point total shall be declared the winner. 3. If there is a tie for highest point total, the player who responded first shall be declared the winner. 4. Assume you're answering the question for someone who understands the basic network tools (ftp, telnet, finger, gopher, etc.), but just doesn't know where the data is. Answers like: ftp host.university.edu ...will not score as high as: anonymous ftp to host.university.edu cd /pub/documents file is called important.txt.Z Don't feel that you have to detail how to use ftp. Instead, tell me the steps you've taken to find your answers, what tool you used to find it, and if necessary, the end information itself. I need to be able to recreate the steps you took. 5. It's always a good idea to let us know how you decided where to begin looking. After all, we can't have everyone thinking that you're all geniuses with innate Net-knowledge! :-) 6. Read the question carefully. If it's asking for specific information (like "What is the chorus to Jingle Bells?"), then supply that info in your answer. Sometimes you may find a pointer to a source that no longer exists. Providing the end information tells me that you actually checked the source out. PRIZES ====== The following individuals have kindly offered to reward the Hunt Winners for their hard work. Many thanks to them! Ivan Pope --------- One Year Subscription to: "3W: World Wide Web Newsletter" (for more info: contact 3W@ukartnet.demon.co.uk) Daniel Dern ----------- A signed copy of: "The Internet Guide for New Users" McGraw-Hill, 1993 609 pgs. (for more info: Gopher (enews.com) path=1/specialmcgraw-hill/dern Cliff Stoll ----------- Signed copies of: "The Cuckoo's Egg" Pocket Books, 1989, 356 pgs. Michael Strangelove ------------------- One year subscription to: "The Internet Business Journal" (for more info: contact Mstrange@Fonorola.Net) ...and on with... THE HUNT ======== 1. (5) I own a company that exports mining machinery and I'd like to know if Chile would be a good investment. Could you get me figures that tell me if U.S. trade with Chile is increasing or decreasing, and by what percent. Also, a list of their principle imports would be nice. (Question from Alan Shapiro) 2. (6) I really LOVE Lampchop, who I on saw on U.S. televised talk show a few months ago. Lambchop was talking about a new book of children's fables... Could you tell me what show that was and when it aired? I'd also like to order a transcript... Can you tell me how much it costs, and what my delivery options are? Finally, who is Lampchop's human? (Question from Carol and Neil Enns) 3. (4) Who was appointed the Head of the United Nations' International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 4. (4) Hi! I live in Yreka, California, U.S.A. Who is my California state senator? 5. (3) Oh No! My wife's birthday is in 3 days and I'm on the road. How much will it cost me to send her a dozen red roses via the Internet? 6. (6) Of Apple and Microsoft, which company spent a higher percentage of its operation expenses on research and development during the 4th quarter of 1993? 7. (3) All last winter's snow has melted, and I fear we may be asked to leave our home till the waters subside. What does the Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange suggest we do with our domestic water system before we go? 8. (2) What is the other profession of Wellington, New Zealand city council member Sarah Lysaght? 9. (2) What ar the top 10 U.S. television programs according to the most recent Nielsen ratings? (Question from Anthony Stevens) 10. (4) How is beer made? Extra Credit (1) What channel does the HomeWrecker virus leave the TV tuned to? ------------------------------------------------------ Rick Gates rgates@locust.cic.net Student & Lecturer Univ. of Arizona (602) 621-3958 1515 E. 1st St. Tucson, AZ 85719 -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From flesh Sun Mar 13 10:36:23 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA19499; Sun, 13 Mar 94 10:36:11 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9403131836.AA19499@wps.com> Subject: prove to me that you're no fool/walk across my swimming pool To: w00f@wps.com Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 10:36:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: shit-list X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 764 (from the San Francisco Chronicle) MINISTER, STUDENTS DROWN TRYING TO WALK ON WATER Dar es Salaam, Tanzania A group of Tanzanian students and a minister who tried to walk on water have drowned in Lake Victoria Polices said yesterday. The members of the Seventh-day Adventist church were traveling in a flotilla of canoes to a religious festival when they decided to make the walk on water. "They decided to test their faith by walking on water like Jesus, but they all drowned," a police spokesman said. "Other participants in the pilgrimage looked on helplessly from the shore as the victims drowned. Police are questioning four ministers who arranged the pilgrimage, buy they said parents and reletives of the dead will not press charges. From flesh Sun Mar 13 19:48:58 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA21066; Sun, 13 Mar 94 19:48:40 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9403140348.AA21066@wps.com> Subject: A day in the life of Pat Boone To: w00f Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 19:48:40 -0800 (PST) Cc: shit-list X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 7670 My attorney was in the bathtub when I returned. Submerged in green water-the oily product of some Japanese bath salts he'd picked yp in the hotel gift shop, along with a new am/fm radio plugged into the electric razor socket. Top Volume. some gibberish by a thing called "Three Dog Night," about a frog named Jerimiah who wanted "Joy to the World." First Lennon, now this, I thought. Next we'll have Glenn Cambell screaming "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Where indeed? No flowers in this town. Only carnivorous plants. I turned the volume down and noticed a hunk of chewed-up white paper beside the radio. My attorney seemed not to notice the sound-change. He was lost in a fog of green steam; only half his head was visible above the water line. "You ate this?" I asked, holding up the white pad. He ignored me. But I knew. He would be very difficult to reach for the next six hours. The whole blotter was chewed up. "You evil son of a bitch," I said," You better hope there's some thorozine in that bag, because if thre's not you're in bad trouble tomorrow." "Music!" he snarled. "Turn it up. Put that tape on." "What tape?" "The new one. It's right there." I picked up the radio and noticed that it was also a tape recorder -one of those things with a cassette-unit built in. And the tape, Surrealistic Pillow, needed only to be flipped over. He had already gone through side one-at a volume that must have been audible in every room within a radius of one hundred yards, walls and all. "'White Rabit,'" he said. I want rising sound." "You're doomed," I said. "I'm leaving here in two hours-and then they're going to come up here abd beat the mortal shit out of you with big saps. Right here in the tub. "I dig my own graves," he said. "Green water and the white rabbit...put it on; don't make me use this." His arm lashed out of the water, the hunting knife gripped in his fist. "Jesus," I muttered. And at that point I figured he was beond help-lying there in the tub with a head full of acid and the sharpest knife I've ever seen, totally incapable of reason, demanding the White Rabbit. This is it, I thought. I've gone as far as I can wqith this waterhead. This time it's a suicide trip. This time he wants it. He's ready... "Ok," I said, turning the tape over and pushing the "play" button. "But do me one last favor, will you? Can you give me two hours? That's all I ask-just two hours to sleep before tomorrow. I suspect it's going to be a difficult day." "Of coarse," he said. "I'm your attorney. I'll give you all the time you need, at my normal rates: $45 an hour-but you'll be wanting a cushion, so why don't you lay one of those $100 bills down there by the radio, and fuck off?" "How about a check?" I said "On the Sawtooth National Bank. You won't need any ID to cash it there. They know me." "Whatever's right," he said, begining to jerk with the music. The bathroom was like the inside of a huge defective woofer. Heinous vibrations, overwhelming sound. The floor was full of water. I moved the radio as far from the tub as it would go, then I left and closed the door behind me. Within seconds he was shouting at me "Help! You bastard! I need help!" I rushed back inside, thinking he'd sliced off an ear by accident. But no...He was reaching across the bathroom toward the white formica shelf where the radio sat. "I want that fuckin radio," he snarled. I grabbed it away from his hand."You fool!" I said. Get back in that tub! Get away from that godamn radio! I shoved it back from his hand. The volume was so far up that it was hard to know what was playing unless you knew Surrealistic Pillow note for note...which I did, at the time, so I knew that "White Rabbit" had finished; the peak had come and gone. But my attorney, it seemed, had not made it. He wanted more. "Back the tape up!" he yellaed. "I need it again!" His eyes were full of craziness now, unable to focus. He seemed on the verge of some awful psychic orgasm... "Let it roll!" he screamed. "Just as high as the fucker can go! And when it comes to that fantastic note where the rabbit bites his own head off, I want you to throw that fuckin radio in the tub with me." I stared at him, keeping a firm grip on the radio. "Not me," I said finally. "I'd be happy to ram a goddamn 440-volt cattle prod into that tub with you right now, but not this radio. It would blast you right through the wall. stone dead in ten seconds." I laughed. Shit, they'd make me explain it- drag me down to some rotten coroner's inquest about....yes...the exact details. I don't need that." Bullshit!" He screamed "Just tell them I wanted to get higher." I thought for a moment. "Okay," I said finally. "You're right. This is probably the only solution." I picked up the tape/radio- which was still plugged in- and held it over the tub. "Just let me make sure I have it all lined up," I said. "You want me to throw this thing into the tub when 'White Rabbit' peaks-is that it?" He fell back in the water and smiled gratefully. "Fuck yes," He said "I was beginning to think I was going to have to go out and get one of the goddamn maids to do it." "Don't worry," I said. "Are you ready?" I hit the "play" button and "White Rabbit" started building again. Almost immediately he began to howl and moan...another fast run up that mountain, and thinking, this time, that he would finally get over the top. His eyes were gripped shut and only his head and both kneecaps poked up through the oily green water. I let the song build while I sorted through a pile of fat ripe grapefruit next to the basin. The biggest one of the lot weighed almost two pounds. I got a good Vida Blue fastball grip on the fucker- and just as "White Rabbit" peaked I lashed it into the tub like a cannonball. My attorney screamed crazily, thrashing around in the tub like a shark after meat, churning water all over the floor as he struggled to get ahold of something. I jerked the AC cord out of the tape/radio and moved out of the bathroom very quickly...the machine kept on playing, but now it was on it's own harmless battery power. I could hear the beat cooling down as I moved across the room to my kitbag and fetched up the Mace can...just as my attorney ripped the bathroom door open and started out. His eyes were still unfocused, but he was waving the balde in front of him like a man who ment to cut something. "Mace! I shouted. You want this?" I waved the Mace bomb in front of his watery eyes. He stopped, "You bastard!" he hissed. "Youd do that, wouldn't you?" I laughed, still waving the bomb at him. "Why worry? You'll like it. Shit, there's nothing in the world like a mace high- fourty-five minutes on your knees with the dry heaves gasping for breath. It'll calm you right down. He stared in my general direction, trying to focus. "You cheap honky sonofabitch," he muttered. "You'd do it, wouldn't you?" "Why not? I said. "Hell, just a minute ago you were asking me to kill you! And now you want to kill me! What I should do, goddammit, is call the police. He sagged. "The cops?" I nodded. Yeah, there's no choice. I wouldn't dare go to sleep with you wandering around in this condition- with a head full of acid and wanting to slice me up with that goddamn knife." He rolled his eyes for a moment, then tried to smile. "Who said anything about slicing you up?" he mumbled. "I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead- nothing serious." He shrugged and reached for a cigarette on top of the TV set. From flesh Mon Mar 14 20:40:43 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA01674; Mon, 14 Mar 94 20:40:28 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9403150440.AA01674@wps.com> Subject: hits from the bong... To: w00f Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 20:40:28 -0800 (PST) Cc: shit-list Reply-To: w00f@wps.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3161 1. Cannabis and hemp are the same. "Marijuana" was the Mexican name given to Cannabis. 2. Cannabis was first cultivated in China around 4000 B.C. 3. The original drafts of the Declaration of Independence were written on hemp paper 4. One acre of hemp will produce as much paper as four acres of trees. 5. Hemp is a source of fiber for cloth and cordage for rope.The hemp fiber is located inside the long stem of the plant. 6. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp. Washington, our first president, declared "make the most of the hemp seed. Sow it everywhere." 7. Hemp seed is nature's perfect food. The oil from the seeds has the highest percentage of essential fatty acids and the lowest percentage of saturated fats. 8. Serilized hemp seed is commonly sold as bird seed. 9. Rolling papers, like Bambu, are made from hemp paper. 10. In 1937, the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act prohinited the use, sale, and cultivation of hemp/marijuana in the United States. 11. Five years later, during World War II, the U.S Department of Agriculture released the film "Hemp For Victory," which encouraged American farmers to grow hemp for the war effort. (Ironic that the parachute the former president George Bush used to bail out of his shot down plane during the war, was made from hemp.) 12. Hemp is cultivated all over the world. Today, China, Korea, Italy, Hungary, Russia, and France are among the countries that grow hemp for fiber, paper and other products. 13. Cannabis is classified as a schedule 1 drug (a dangerous drug with no medical value). Designated as a narcotic, it cannot be prescribed by physicians to patients. 14. In 1988, the DEA's own administrative law judge concluded that "marijuana is one of the safest, thrapeutically active substances known to man." 15. Cannabis can be used as a medicine to treat nasea, pain and muscle spasms. It alleviates symptoms of glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, AIDS, migrains and other debilitating ailments. 16. Thirty-five states have passed legislation permitting medical use of marijuana. 17. Twelve Americans receive prescribed marijuana from the U.S. government. 18. More than 400,000 Americans are arested each year on Marijuana charges. 19. More than 400,000 Americans die from diseases related to cigarette smoking each year. More than 1500,000 Americans die of alcohol abuse each year, But in 10,000 years of usage, no one has ever died from marijuana. source- D.J Muggs. Cypress Hill. Additional Information/reading/sources... The Emporer Wears No Clothes The Last Days Of Legal Cannibas by Jack Herer Check with you local independent book store. They also are available through mail order, through the following disributers... Loopanics Unlimited. P.O. Box 1197 Port Townsend Wa 98368 High Times Books P.O. Box 410 Mt. Morris Il 61054 (800)-827-0228 ----- N.O.R.M.L 1636 "R" Street. NW Washington DC 20009 ----- Institute For Hemp P.O.Box 65130 St. Paul MN 55165 (612)-222-2628 ------ ACLU 132 West 43rd St. New York NY 10036 (212)-944-9800 --- From tomj Mon Mar 14 22:36:09 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA02118; Mon, 14 Mar 94 22:36:05 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9403150636.AA02118@wps.com> Subject: you're not paranoid enough -- yet To: shit-list Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 22:36:05 -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: 22624 Read this first article. >>TRUNCATED<< -- skip to the text "File 1" Computer underground Digest Sun Mar 13, 1994 Volume 6 : Issue 24 ISSN 1004-042X Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET) Archivist: Brendan Kehoe (He's Baaaack) Acting Archivist: Stanton McCandlish Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala Ian Dickinson Copita Editor: Sheri O'Nothera CONTENTS, #6.24 (Mar 13, 1994) File 1--Clipping the Wings of Freedom (Reprint, by J.P. 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DISCLAIMER: The views represented herein do not necessarily represent the views of the moderators. Digest contributors assume all responsibility for ensuring that articles submitted do not violate copyright protections. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 11:30:17 -0500 From: John Perry Barlow Subject: File 1--Clipping the Wings of Freedom (Reprint, by J.P. Barlow) Clipping the Wings of Freedom page 1 Jackboots on the Infobahn by John Perry Barlow [Note: I wish to reserve to Wired Magazine first paper publication of the following piece. However, given the fairly immediate nature of this issue, I am net-casting it now. Feel free to pass it on electronically as you see fit, but please do not turn it into any sort of hard copy until Wired has done so. I also encourage you to buy the April issue of Wired in which it will appear.] On January 11, I managed to schmooze myself aboard Air Force 2. It was flying out of LA, where its principal passenger had just outlined his vision of the Information Superhighway to a suited mob of television, show biz, and cable types who fervently hoped to own it one day...if they could ever figure out what the hell it was. >From the standpoint of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the speech had been wildly encouraging. The Vice President's announced program incorporated many of the concepts of open competition, universal access, and deregulated common carriage which we'd been pushing for the previous year. But he had said nothing about future of privacy, except to cite among the bounties of the NII its ability to "help law enforcement agencies thwart criminals and terrorists who might use advanced telecommunications to commit crimes." On the plane I asked him what this had meant regarding Administration policy on cryptography. He became non-committal as a cigar store indian. "We'll be making some announcements... I can't tell you anything more." He hurried back to the front of the plane, leaving me to troubled speculation. Despite its fundamental role in assuring privacy, transaction security, and reliable identity within the NII, the Clinton/Gore Administration policies regarding cryptography have not demonstrated an enlightenment to match the rest of their digital visions. The Clipper Chip...which bodes to be either the goofiest waste of federal dollars since Gerald Ford's great Swine Flu program or, if actually deployed, a surveillance technology of profound malignancy...seemed at first an ugly legacy of Reagan/Bush. "This is going to be our Bay of Pigs," one White House official told me at the time Clipper was introduced, referring to the distastrous Cuban invasion plan Kennedy inherited from Eisenhower. (Clipper, in case you're just tuning in, is an encryption chip which the NSA and FBI hope will someday be in every phone and computer in America. It scrambles your communications, making them unintelligible to all but their intended recipient. All, that is, but the government, which would hold the "key" to your chip. The key would separated into two pieces, held in escrow, and joined with the appropriate "legal authority.") Of course, trusting the government with your privacy is trusting a peeping tom to install your window blinds. And, since the folks I've met in this White House seem extremely smart, conscious, and freedom-loving...hell, a lot of them are Deadheads...I was sure that after they felt fully moved in, they'd face down the NSA and FBI, let Clipper die a natural death, and lower the export embargo on reliable encryption products. Furthermore, NIST and the National Security Council have been studying both Clipper and export embargoes since April. Given that the volumes of expert testimony they collected opposed them both almost unanimously , I expected the final report to give the Administration all the support it needed to do the right thing. I was wrong about this. Instead, there would be no report. Apparently, they couldn't draft one which supported, on the evidence, what they had decided to do instead. THE OTHER SHOE DROPS On Friday, February 4, the other jack-boot dropped. A series of announcements from the Administration made it clear that cryptography would become their very own "Bosnia of telecommunications" (as one staffer put it). It wasn't just that the old Serbs in the NSA and the FBI were still making the calls. The alarming new reality was that the invertebrates in the White House were only too happy to abide by them. Anything to avoid appearing soft on drugs or terrorism. So, rather than ditching Clipper, they declared it a Federal Data Processing Standard, backing that up with an immediate government order for 50,000 Clipper devices. They appointed NIST and the Department of Treasury as the "trusted" third parties that would hold the Clipper key pairs. (Treasury, by the way, is also home to such trustworthy agencies as the Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.) They re-affirmed the export embargo on robust encryption products, admitting for the first time that its purpose was to stifle competition to Clipper. And they outlined a very porous set of requirements under which the cops might get the keys to your chip. (They would not go into the procedure by which the NSA would get them, though they assured us it was sufficient.) They even signaled the impending return of the dread Digital Telephony, an FBI legislative initiative which would require fundamentally re-engineering the information infrastructure to make provision of wiretapping ability the paramount design priority. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Actually, by the time the announcements thudded down, I wan't surprised by them. I had spent several days the previous week in and around the White House. I felt like I was in another re-make of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. My friends in the Administration had been transformed. They'd been subsumed by the vast mind-field on the other side of the security clearance membrane, where dwell the monstrous bureaucratic organisms which feed themselves on fear. They'd adopted the institutionally paranoid National Security Weltanschauung. They used all the tell-tale phrases. Mike Nelson, the White House point man on NII, told me, "If only I could tell you what I know, you'd feel the same way I do." I told him I'd been inoculated against that argument during Vietnam. (And it does seem to me that if you're going to initiate a process which might end freedom in America, you probably need an argument that isn't classified.) Besides, how does he know what he knows? Where does he get his information? Why the NSA, of course. Which, given its strong interest in the outcome, seems hardly an unimpeachable source. However they reached it, Clinton and Gore have an astonishingly simple bottom line, against which even the future of American liberty and prosperity is secondary: They believe that it is their responsibility to eliminate, by whatever means, the possibility that some terrorist might get a nuke and use it on, say, the World Trade Center. They have been convinced that such plots are more likely to ripen to their hideous fruition behind a shield of encryption. The staffers I talked to were unmoved by the argument that anyone smart enough to steal and detonate a nuclear device is probably smart enough to use PGP or some other uncompromised crypto standard. And never mind that the last people who popped a hooter in the World Trade Center were able to put it there without using any cryptography and while under FBI surveillance. We are dealing with religion here. Though only 10 American lives were lost to terrorism in the last two years, the primacy of this threat has become as much an article of faith with these guys as the Catholic conviction that human life begins at conception or the Mormon belief that the Lost Tribe of Israel crossed the Atlantic in submarines. In the spirit of openness and compromise, they invited EFF to submit other solutions to the "problem" of the nuclear-enabled terrorist besides key escrow devices, but they would not admit into discussion the argument that such a threat might, in fact, be some kind of phantasm created by the spooks to ensure their lavish budgets into the Post-Cold War era. As to the possibility that good old-fashioned investigative techniques might be more valuable in preventing their show-case catastrophe (as it was after the fact in finding the alleged perpetrators of the last attack on the World Trade Center),they just hunkered down and said that when wire-taps were necessary, they were damned well necessary. When I asked about the business that American companies lose to their inability to export good encryption products, one staffer essentially dismissed the market, saying that total world trade in crypto goods was still less than a billion dollars. (Well, right. Thanks more to the diligent efforts of the NSA than lack of sales potential.) I suggested that a more immediate and costly real-world effect of their policies would be reducing national security by isolating American commerce, owing to a lack of international confidence in the security of our data lines. I said that Bruce Sterling's fictional data-enclaves in places like the Turks and Caicos Islands were starting to look real world inevitable. They had a couple of answers to this, one unsatisfying and the other scary. Their first answer was that the international banking community could just go on using DES, which still seemed robust enough to them. [DES is the old federal Data Encryption Standard, thought by most cryptologists to be nearing the end of its credibility.] More troubling was their willingness to counter the data-enclave future with one in which no data channels anywhere would be secure from examination by some government or another. They pointed to unnamed other countries which were developing their own mandatory standards and restrictions regarding cryptography and have said to me on several occasions words to the effect that, "Hey, it's not like you can't outlaw the stuff. Look at France." Of course, they have also said repeatedly...and for now I believe them...that they have absolutely no plans to outlaw non-Clipper crypto in the U.S. But that doesn't mean that such plans couldn't develop in the presence of some pending "emergency." Then there is that White House briefing document, issued at the time Clipper was first announced, which asserts that no U.S. citizen "as a matter of right, is entitled to an unbreakable commercial encryption product." Now why, if it's an ability they have no intention of contesting, do they feel compelled to declare that it's not a right? Could it be that they are preparing us for the laws they'll pass after some bearded fanatic has gotten himself a surplus nuke and used something besides Clipper to conceal his plans for it? If they are thinking about such an eventuality, we should be doing so as well. How will we respond? I believe there is a strong, though currently untested, argument that outlawing unregulated crypto would violate the First Amendment, which surely protects the manner of our speech as clearly as it protects the content. But of course the First Amendment is, like the rest of the Constitution, only as good as the government's willingness of the to uphold it. And they are, as I say, in a mood to protect our safety over our liberty. This is not a mind-frame against which any argument is going to be very effective. And it appeared that they had already heard and rejected every argument I could possibly offer. In fact, when I drew what I thought was an original comparison between their stand against naturally proliferating crypto and the folly of King Canute (who placed his throne on the beach and commanded the tide to leave him dry), my opposition looked pained and said he had heard that one almost as often as jokes about road-kill on the Information Superhighway. I hate to go to war with them. War is always nastier among friends. Furthermore, unless they've decided to let the NSA design the rest of the National Information Infrastructure as well, we need to go on working closely with them on the whole range of issues like access, competition, workplace privacy, common carriage, intellectual property, and such. Besides, the proliferation of strong crypto will probably happen eventually no matter what they do. But then again, it might not. In which case we could shortly find ourselves under a government that would have the automated ability to log the time, origin and recipient of everycall we made, could track our physical whereabouts continuously, could keep better account of our financial transactions than we do, and all without a warrant. Talk about crime prevention! Worse, under some vaguely defined and surely mutable "legal authority," they also would be able to listen to our calls and read our e-mail without having to do any backyard rewiring. (And wouldn't even need that to monitor our overseas calls.) If there's going to be a fight, I'd far rather it be with this government than the one we'd likely face on that hard day. Hey, I've never been a paranoid before. It's always seemed to me that most governments are too incompetent to keep a good plot strung together all the way from coffee break to quitting time. But I am now very nervous about the government of the United States of America. Because Bill 'n' Al, whatever their other new paradigm virtues, have allowed the very old paradigm trogs of the Guardian Class to the define as their highest duty the defense of America against an enemy that exists primarily in the imagination and is therefore capable of anything. To assure absolute safety against such an enemy, there is no limit to the liberties we will eventually be asked to sacrifice. And, with a Clipper chip in every phone, there will certainly be no technical limit on their ability to enforce those sacrifices. WHAT YOU CAN DO GET CONGRESS TO LIFT THE CRYPTO EMBARGO The Administration is trying to impose Clipper on us by manipulating market forces. Purchasing massive numbers of Clipper devices, they intend to produce an economy of scale which will make them cheap while their export embargo renders all competition either expensive or non-existent. We have to use the market to fight back. While it's unlikely that they'll back down on Clipper deployment, the Electronic Frontier Foundation believes that with sufficient public involvement, we can get Congress to eliminate the export embargo. Rep. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) has a bill (H.R. 3627) before the Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment Science Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee which would do exactly that. She will need a lot of help from the public. They may not care much about your privacy in DC, but they still care about your vote. Please signal your support of H.R. 3627, either by writing her directly or e-mailing her at cantwell@eff.org. Messages sent to that address will be printed out and delivered to her office. In the Subject header of your message, please include the words "support HR 3627." In the body of your message, express your reasons for supporting the bill. You may also express your sentiments to Rep. Lee Hamilton, the Foreign Relations Committee chairman, by e-mailing hamilton@eff.org. Furthermore, since there is nothing quite as powerful as a letter from a constituent, you should check the following list of subcommittee and committee members to see if your congressperson is among them. If so, please copy them your letter to Ms. Cantwell. Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment Science Subcommittee: Democrats: Sam Gejdenson (Chairman), James Oberstar, Cynthia McKinney, Maria Cantwell, Eric Fingerhut, Albert R. Wynn, Harry Johnston, Eliot Engel, Charles Schumer. Republicans: Toby Roth (ranking), Donald Manzullo, Doug Bereuter, Jan Meyers, Cass Ballenger, Dana Rohrabacher. Foreign Affairs Committee: Democrats: Lee Hamilton (Chairman), Tom Lantos, Robert Torricelli, Howard Berman, Gary Ackerman, Eni Faleomavaega, Matthew Martinez, Robert Borski, Donal Payne, Robert Andrews, Robert Menendez, Sherrod Brown, Alcee Hastings, Peter Deutsch, Don Edwards, Frank McCloskey, Thomas Sawyer, Luis Gutierrez. Republicans: Benjamin Gilman (ranking), William Goodling, Jim Leach, Olympia Snowe, Henry Hyde, Christopher Smith, Dan Burton, Elton Gallegly, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, David Levy, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Ed Royce. BOYCOTT CLIPPER DEVICES AND THE COMPANIES WHICH MAKE THEM. Don't buy anything with a Clipper chip in it. Don't buy any product from a company which manufactures devices with "Big Brother Inside." It is likely that the government will ask you to use Clipper for communications with the IRS or when doing business with Federal agencies. They cannot, as yet, require you to do so. Just say no. LEARN ABOUT ENCRYPTION AND EXPLAIN THE ISSUES TO YOUR UNWIRED FRIENDS The administration is banking on the likelihood that this stuff too technically obscure to agitate anyone but nerds like us. You prove them wrong by patiently explaining what's going on to all the people you know who have never touched a computer and glaze over at the mention of words like "cryptography." Maybe you glaze over yourself. Don't. It's not that hard. For some hands-on experience, download a copy of PGP, a shareware encryption engine which uses the robust RSA encryption algorithm. and learn to use it. GET YOUR COMPANY TO THINK ABOUT EMBEDDING REAL CRYPTOGRAPHY IN ITS PRODUCTS If you work for a company which makes software, computer hardware, or any kind of communications device, work from within to get them to incorporate RSA or some other strong encryption scheme into their products. If they say that they are afraid to violate the export embargo, ask them to consider manufacturing such products overseas and importing them back into the United States. There appears to be no law against that. As yet. You might also lobby your company to join the Digital Privacy and Security Working Group, a coalition of companies and public interest groups that includes IBM, Apple, Sun, Microsoft (and, interestingly, Clipper phone manufacturer AT&T) that is working to get the embargo lifted. JOIN EFF, CPSR, OR BOTH Self-serving as it sounds coming from me, I think you can do a lot to help by becoming a member of one of these organizations. In addition to giving you access to the latest information on this subject, every additional member strengthens our credibility with Congress. Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation by writing membership@eff.org. Join Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility by writing [provide e-mail address here.] In his LA speech, Gore called the development of the NII "a revolution." And it is a revolutionary war we are engaged in here. Clipper is a last ditch attempt by the United States, the last great power from the Industrial Era, to establish imperial control over Cyberspace. If they win, the most liberating development in the history of humankind could become, instead, the surveillance system which will monitor our grandchildren's morality. We can be better ancestors than that. John Perry Barlow is co-founder and Vice-Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group which defends liberty, both in Cyberspace and the Physical World. He has three daughters. End of Computer Underground Digest #6.24 ************************************ -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Mon Mar 14 22:46:17 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA02161; Mon, 14 Mar 94 22:46:13 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9403150646.AA02161@wps.com> Subject: more Clipper To: shit-list Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 22:46:12 -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: 20876 Shit-list is supposed to ba amusing, even if painful amusement. I don't want it to turn into a one-track strident monstrosity. However the gov'ts Clipper thing is at a curious point. It is very scary history-making actions here, it reall is a turning point in (U.S.) societal paradigm re: law enforcement's relation to it's citizenry. This outlines a clever trick Gilmore is pulling. He is one of the very few people who can afford the legal battle, if it goes that far. I hope they don't silkwood him. >From surfpunk-0105. Contact info near the end. From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (jvgarffvat gur travhf bs senzref) To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0105] FOIA: the Clipper Key Escrow databases * "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers * of the society but the people themselves, and if we * think them not enlightened enough to exercise that * control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not * to take it from them, but to inform their discretion." * * -- Thomas Jefferson, 1820 * [passed along by librarian Ruth Reynolds] SURFPUNK BACKISSUES: ftp://ftp.yak.net/pub/surfpunk ALSO: ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/Surfpunk/ John Gilmore has sent a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request for the database of escrowed key components. These are the half-keys that will be required to decrypt conversations on the pre-wiretapped Clipper encrypted telephones. The idea behind FOIA is that the U S Government should be accountable to its citizens by having its files and databases open to public inspection. The mechanism for doing this is to file a FOIA request to a government agency, and they are supposed to send you what you ask for, with some exceptions. Requesting the Clipper key databases seems silly at first, but really it strikes at the heart of why Clipper is such a bad idea: FOIA prevents government from collecting information about citizens that the citizens themselves cannot be trusted with. If we do not want other citizens listening in to our private conversations, the government has no business doing it, either, because they should be working *for* us. BTW, Eric Hughes points out that "escrowed" is not really the right word. An escrow agent is someone chosen and agreed to by both parties to hold something for future release under certain conditions. In the case of Clipper Keys, both parties do not get to agree to who the escrow agents are. They are chosen for you: one is the U S Treasury department, whose Secret Service brought you the Steve Jackson Games fiasco; the other is NIST, who is plowing ahead with the Clipper standard despite a nearly unanimous response against it during their period of public comment. It looks like John has created a mailing list foia-keys-request@toad.com if you're interested in following this. The Cypherpunks list is still at cypherpunks-request@toad.com. --strick ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ To: cypherpunks@toad.com, gnu@toad.com Subject: <6g> I have FOIA'd the Clipper Key Escrow databases Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 12:58:40 -0800 From: gnu@toad.com There appears to be no FOIA exemption that would justify withholding the key escrow databases which Treasury and NIST are building. (The keys are not tied to any individual, so individual privacy isn't a valid exemption. The database isn't classified. Etc.) I have asked for a copy of each database, in toto. Letters were sent yesterday. One is reproduced below; the other is identical except for the addressee and minor details. You too can do things like this. It's fun and it occasionally produces highly useful information. Just think of something that the government knows, and has written down on paper, that you want to know. Ask them for it. You have the right to know. They're spending your taxes to subjugate you, and they're required to answer, though almost all agencies do it grudgingly. Post your request to the net, so that we-all will know it's happening, and can be inspired to think of other interesting things to ask for. You don't need all the boilerplate below about exemptions and time limits and stuff; that is to put the agencies on notice that we will push them in court, if necessary, to be responsive. Or you can use our boilerplate in your own requests, if you like. Alter the "media requester" section to suit your own situation. John [[ The actual FOIA request is at the end --strick ]] ________________________________________________________________________ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 11:48:59 -0800 From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes) Message-Id: <9402281948.AA05053@ah.com> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: <8c> I have FOIA'd the Clipper Key Escrow databases Should John's FOIA request for the clipper key database work, it creates a wonderful hole in the entire key custody system. It would require a legislative act to plug the hole. This is extremely significant, since the whole clipper strategy is based on unchecked and unbalanced actions by the executive branch. No laws were passed to create clipper and no judicial review has taken place. John's request will be denied, no doubt, and will go to court. Should he prevail in court, the executive branch is bound by that decision. A key custody database which was public would make the system insecure and unusable. The executive branch could not change this. Only the legislature could. Now, how many legislators do you know that are going to make a public record by voting in favor of Big Brother? We are witnessing the genius of framers of the USA Constitution here, folks. Eric ________________________________________________________________________ To: smb@research.att.com Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, gnu@toad.com Subject: <6g> Re: I have FOIA'd the Clipper Key Escrow databases In-Reply-To: <9402252135.AA04902@toad.com> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 94 00:21:43 -0800 > I confess -- I expect one of two outcomes. First, they may say that > the database is classified, if only at the level of ``For Official > Use Only''. `For Official Use Only' is not a valid classification. A document with this marking cannot be withheld under FOIA exemption 1. You have to read the Executive Orders on classification -- this category got cleaned up a LONG time ago. The current Executive Order gives particular criteria for classifying things. If this database doesn't fit any of those criteria, it can't legally be classified. I don't believe that this database is covered. And a judge in a FOIA case can do a "de novo" (from scratch) review of whether the material is legally classified, by examining it himself in private -- we don't have to take the agency's word that "there really is some reason it is classified". Also, giving classified information to unauthorized people is a major offense. They threatened me with that offense one time, over texts that I found in a library. If the keys in the database are classified, they can't give them out to cops. FOIA requires that they "segregate" any classified part and give me the rest of what's there, so if they claim that "well, one key isn't classified, but ten or a thousand of them are classified", I bet we can (1) get some keys out, (2) challenge this idea in court. In particular, it should be possible to record the LEAF from a particular chip (whether you own it, or not!) and send it to them in a FOIA request asking for the matching unit key. They clearly can map a LEAF to a key (they do it for cops), and FOIA only requires that you "reasonably describe" the records you want. Given their mapping capability, the LEAF is a reasonable description of the record you want. > Second, maybe they will release it -- but remember that > the keys are stored encrypted. Can you file an FOIA request for the > key, too? Either I can get the key, or I can get them to decrypt it for me. If they could hold arbitrary government records in secret by simply encrypting them and classifying the keys, FOIA would be entirely thwarted; the courts wouldn't let them get away with it. By the way, I did request the keys: > This request includes your database of the escrowed key > components. This request also includes any ancillary information > about the database, such as data formats, procedures, standards, > access methods, memos and documents about its use, access > software, plans, etc. If the database itself is stored in encrypted > form, then this request also includes the computer programs and > keys required to access it. John ________________________________________________________________________ law office of Lee Tien 1452 Curtis Street Berkeley, California 94702 _______________ tien@well.sf.ca.us voice: (510) 525-0817 fax: (510) 525-3015 February 24, 1994 Reference: KEY ESCROW DATABASE-TREASURY Departmental Disclosure Office Department of the Treasury Room 1054-MT Washington, D.C. 20220 ATTN: FOIA request Dear Sir or Madam: This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act [5 U.S.C. Sec. 552] on behalf of my client, Mr. John Gilmore. I write to request a copy of all agency records or portions thereof, in electronic or other form, which relate to the database of escrowed key components for encryption using the key escrow encryption method. The Attorney General announced on Friday, February 4, 1994, that the Automated Systems Division of the Department of the Treasury will be one of the two escrow agents. This request includes your database of the escrowed key components. This request also includes any ancillary information about the database, such as data formats, procedures, standards, access methods, memos and documents about its use, access software, plans, etc. If the database itself is stored in encrypted form, then this request also includes the computer programs and keys required to access it. We specifically request that you make the database available in electronic form, such as on magnetic tape. We remind you that the long-standing rule that the FOIA "makes no distinction between records maintained in manual and computer storage systems," Yeager v. D.E.A., 678 F.2d 315, 321 (D.C.Cir. 1982), has recently been amplified in Armstrong v. Executive Office of the President, 810 F.Supp. 335 (D.D.C. 1993). Any paper print-outs of electronic records, such as e-mail, must include all information in the electronic record. Assuming that there would be no loss of releasable information, such as written comments made on paper print-outs, we therefore ask you to release all responsive electronic records in electronic, i.e., machine-readable, form. As you know, the FOIA provides that an agency must make an initial determination of whether to comply with a FOIA request within ten working days of receiving the request. If the records that you possess were originated or classified by another organization, I ask that your organization declassify them (if needed) and release them to me, as provided in the FOIA, within the statutory time limits. If there is a conflict between the statutory time limits and some regulation or policy that requires you to refer the records, the statutory requirement takes precedence over any Executive-branch regulation, policy or practice. Congress placed a limit on the time which may be expended in referrals. The FOIA explicitly provides that referrals to other interested agencies or agency components are treated under the provision for "unusual circumstances," and cannot justify a delay of more than an additional 10 working days. 5 U.S.C. Sec. 552(a)(6)(B)(iii). "[W]hen an agency receives a FOIA request for 'agency records' in its possession it must take responsibility for processing the request. It cannot simply refuse to act on the ground that the documents originated elsewhere." McGehee v. C.I.A., 697 F.2d 1095, 1110 (D.C. Cir. 1983). Even records originated by other agencies are subject to immediate release under the applicable case law, if they were at the time of the request in the possession and control of your agency. Simply put, the FOIA and the case law take precedence over executive branch regulations or practices regarding referrals. If you do refer documents to any other agency, and they are not provided within the time limits, we intend to litigate on this point. As you know, the FOIA provides that even if some requested material is properly exempted from mandatory disclosure, all segregable portions must be released. [5 U.S.C. Sec. 552(b)] If any or all material covered by this request is withheld, please inform me of the specific exemptions that are being claimed, and mark all deletions to indicate the exemption(s) being claimed to authorize each individual withholding. If the (b)(3) exemption is claimed, please indicate the relevant withholding statute(s). If any records are withheld, I request a Vaughn index or its equivalent during the administrative process. "[T]he objective of the Vaughn requirements, to permit the requesting party to present its case effectively, is equally applicable to proceedings within the agency." Mead Data Central v. Department of the Air Force, 402 F.Supp. 460 (D.D.C. 1974), remanded, 566 F.2d 242 (D.C. Cir. 1977) aff'd, 575 F.2d 932 (D.C. Cir. 1978). "[A] person cannot effectively appeal a decision about the releasability of documents ... if he is not informed of at least a list of the documents to which he was denied access ... and why those decisions were made. Denial of this information would in all likelihood be a denial of due process as well as effectively gutting the reasons for applying the exhaustion doctrine in FOIA cases." Shermco Industries, Inc. v. Secretary of the Air Force, 452 F.Supp. 306, 317 n.7 (N.D. Tex. 1978); see Oglesby v. Department of the Army, 920 F.2d 57, 65 (D.C. Cir. 1990) (citing Shermco). It should be simple to prepare a list and the claimed exemptions as the records are processed. Disclosing such information would not disclose any exempt information and it would make it easier to appeal your initial determination on the merits. In addition, I ask that your agency exercise its discretion to release information that may be technically exempt. As you know, the Attorney General on October 4, 1993, directed that agencies should administer the FOIA under a presumption of disclosure, and that information which need not be withheld should not be. I remind you that under Chrysler v. Brown, 441 U.S. 281, 293 (1979), the 5 U.S.C. Sec. 552(b) exemptions are discretionary, not mandatory. An agency can generally choose to release exempt information. This discretionary review process for withholding cannot take precedence over the law, which requires a response within specified time limits. Moreover, that discretion, according to the Attorney General's October 4, 1993 memorandum, must be exercised in accordance with a presumption of disclosure. Even if a substantial legal basis exists for withholding, information is not to be withheld unless it need be. I also request that fees be waived because Mr. Gilmore should be deemed a media requester by your agency for FOIA purposes, and because the public interest would be furthered by a fee waiver. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that "a representative of the news media is, in essence, a person or entity that gathers information of potential interest to a segment of the public, uses its editorial skills to turn the raw materials into a distinct work, and distributes that work to an audience." National Security Archive v. Department of Defense, 880 F.2d 1381, 1387 (D.C.Cir. 1989), cert. denied 494 U.S. 1029 (1990). This definition applies strongly to Mr. Gilmore, who is a co- founder and director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a Washington, D.C.-based public interest organization. The EFF has been intimately involved in policy discussions concerning key escrow encryption and distributes information to the public by newsletter and electronic distribution about this and other topics involving civil liberties. Mr. Gilmore is also a skilled computer programmer who has spent the last ten years distributing his work for public use to a worldwide audience on the Internet and the Usenet. Mr. Gilmore is also entitled to a fee waiver because "disclosure of the information is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government and is not primarily in the commercial interest of the requester." There exists a tremendous public debate over the wisdom and legality of the key escrow encryption plan, as I am sure you are well aware. Your agency's database is clearly an operation of the government in which the public has a great interest. The Vice President himself has publicly expressed doubt about the delegating key escrow responsibilities to agencies which are part of the executive branch. The information requested herein relates to such doubt. This information is not yet in the public record, so the request makes a substantial contribution to the public understanding. This request is not primarily in the commercial interest of Mr. Gilmore. He will not benefit financially from this information in any way. He intends to disseminate the requested records widely and freely to inform this public debate. Should there be any problem in this regard, Mr. Gilmore promises to pay up to $1000 in fees, and you should therefore begin processing of this request without fee-related delays. As provided under the FOIA, I will expect a reply within ten (10) working days. Sincerely, Lee Tien Attorney at Law On behalf of Mr. John Gilmore ________________________________________________________________________ The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states, spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither. ________________________________________________________________________ Submissions: , Subscriptions: . Backissues: ftp://ftp.yak.net/pub/surfpunk also ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/Surfpunk/ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Vice President Al Gore's comments: By Jay Levin (C) 1994 From New York Unix Vol 4 #3. WASHINGTON, Feb 11 Under the Clipper plan, the keys would be stored at the Treasury Department and the National Insitute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whic is part of the Commerce Department. Both Treasury and Commerce are from the same branch of government, the executive branch. "When I saw that I said 'Wow. That is not right,' and I raised hell about that," Gore said in an interview Thursday. Having the key holders from the same branch of government raises concern because there is no systems of checks and balances, Gore said. "That's going to be changed," he said. ... The selection of NIST and Treasury "was spun out of the process at the low level and was not vetted at the top," Gore said. Gore's comments were made after appearing before the first meeting of a private sector advisory panel on the development of a "national information infrastructure" in Washington, D.C. From: Carl Ellison >The FBI and the Justice Department say the initiative would >not expand their power, but would ensure access to the type of >communications they have been entitled to tap for years. This is totally bogus. The FBI has never had the right to watch computer programs execute. Now that computer programs are being written as distributed systems, what was originally written to be an internal subroutine call can look like a message over the phone system. The FBI never had the right to bug corporate conference rooms. Now that companies are using videoconferencing, a private corporate conference could look like a phone call. Etc. This needs to be fought. - Carl To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: SQUISH I just received a notice concerning your game. Please send me some more information on how to join/play as well as any rules. Thanks, Jeff -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU Tue Mar 15 01:07:35 1994 Received: from ucscb.UCSC.EDU by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA02770; Tue, 15 Mar 94 01:07:30 -0800 Received: by ucscb.UCSC.EDU (5.65/1.34) id AA11214; Tue, 15 Mar 94 01:07:09 -0800 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 94 01:07:09 -0800 From: sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Santa Cruz IWW) Message-Id: <9403150907.AA11214@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> To: shit-list@fido.wps.com, tomj@wps.com Subject: Re: more Clipper Cc: sciww@ucscb.UCSC.EDU Wow, the verbing of silkwood... um, haha. Well, life during wartime, I guess... --Deke From flesh Fri Mar 18 20:52:51 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA00265; Fri, 18 Mar 94 20:52:35 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9403190452.AA00265@wps.com> Subject: MOO - COWS!!! (fwd) To: w00f Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 20:52:35 -0800 (PST) Cc: shit-list Reply-To: w00f@wps.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4318 Forwarded message: From cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu Mon Feb 7 12:04:25 1994 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 13:04:12 -0700 (MST) From: Ryan Snyder--Consultant Subject: MOO - COWS!!! (fwd) To: flesh Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Status: Ryan Snyder, Consultant | --->Finger me for my PGP public key.<--- _____ University of Montana CIS| SPAM! /|\ /| CS000RRS@SELWAY.UMT.EDU | He'll wear a tall hat. Never forget it. | | O | GCS/SS/O d? p--- c++++ l u++ e+/* m* s+/ n+(++) h+ f+ !g t+@ r- y++ | |/_\| ~~~~~~~~ =o= |/___/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 03:36:13 -0500 From: FringeWare Inc To: cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu Subject: MOO - COWS!!! Sent from the cyberdeck of: muddy@wam.umd.edu (gregor markowitz) Sent from the cyberdeck of: muddy@wam.umd.edu (gregor markowitz) If there's one thing we care about here at muddy river boatworks besides boats, it's COWS. Yesterday was the first day wherein it was legal to sell dairy products from cows injected with rBGH. This is a sick and trecherous alien technology, the fruits of many cattle mutilations. People, we are going to have to go without milk and dairy for a while. This is hard to take at the boatworks. There is no labeling required on the contaminated products, so all we can hope is that dairy outfits who do not use the genetically spliced hormones will label THEIR stuff. We can only hope a boycott will make rBGH unworkable and it will be removed from the industry. PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY DAIRY PRODUCTS UNLESS YOU ARE CERTAIN THEY CONTAIN NO MILK FROM BGH INJECTED COWS. We affixed this information sheet to the dairy cooler in our local stores. Please print it on your printer and put it up in the dairy section of your store. Also, send this to everyone you can think of. Ask them to put it up in their stores! BOYCOTT ALIEN TECHNOLOGIES! BOYCOTT PUS MILK! ----------------reprint flyer below ------------------ Starting on February 3, 1994, the United States Government's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing the commercial sale and use of foods derived from dairy cows that are injected with a genetically- engineered hormone known as recombinant "Bovine Growth Hormone" (rBGH), also known as "Bovine Somatotropin" or BST. There will be no required labeling on these products even though 98% of American consumers favor labeling of rBGH [contaminated] products so that they can avoid buying them. Regularly injecting cows with genetically-engineered Bovine Growth Hormones drastically increases the amounts of milk that the cows produce. Monsanto Corporation, the chemical conglomerate that won the FDA approval to market rBGH to American dairy farmers under the brand name POSILAC, is pushing the recombinant "Bovine Growth Hormone" on the dairy industry as a way to squeeze more milk from every cow, boosting milk production by as much as 25 percent. But rBGH is a disaster for the cows, the small dairy farmers, and the United States taxpayers. And rBGH will likely have HARMFUL EFFECTS on human health [our health and our children's health] and on our environment, as well. Recombinant "Bovine Growth Hormone" is like "crack" for cows. It revs up their systems and forces them to produce a lot more milk -- but it also makes them sick! According to numerous studies, cows injected with rBGH suffer from increased udder infections (mastitis) and from greater stress and disease. rBGH-injected cows also may suffer from severe reproductive problems, digestive disorders, foot and leg ailments, and persistent body sores and lacerations. Sick cows make sick milk. Studies indicate that milk from cows injected with the recombinant "Bovine Growth Hormone" has more saturated fat and less protein than regular milk. The infections that rBGH causes in cows may lead to large amounts of pus in milk. "Pus" is defined as "thick, opaque, usually yellowish-white fluid matter, comprising an exudate which contains leukocytes, tissue debris and microorganisms." Pus is the waste product of bodily infections. From flesh Sat Mar 19 13:17:53 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA02969; Sat, 19 Mar 94 13:17:37 -0800 From: flesh (Flesh) Message-Id: <9403192117.AA02969@wps.com> Subject: passin' da blunt ta hermes To: w00f Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 13:17:36 -0800 (PST) Cc: shit-list Reply-To: w00f@wps.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1656 Dude. Thought some additional, information on that list I mailed out earlyier would interest you. It's mostly the same stuff re-hased, but this one has a few additions. A few extra facts, as well as dates. ...... 2727 BC First recorded use of cannabis as medicine in Chinese phamacopeia. In every part of the world humankind has used cannabis for a wide variety of health problems. 1937 Cannabis was withdrawn from the American public against the medical advice of the medical community. Hemp was excluded from the Class II schedule of drugs (having demonstrated medical value) and listed as a Class I (dangerous substance with know known medical value) by the Nixon administration (one more reason to hate Nixon-F) in 1970- despite all evidence to the contrary- and was retained as a Class I by the Bush administration in 1989. 1972 The Nixon-appointed Shafer commision urged that the use of cannabis be re-legalized, which was not done. Still, medical research continued, often with remarkable results. 1975 FDA establishes Compassionate Use Program for medical marijuana. 1988 DEA administrative law Judge Francis Young found after thorough hearings that marijuana had clearly established medical use and should be reclasified as a prescriptive drug. "The National Academy of Science reports that marijuana relieves asthma attaks and loss of appetite. Furthermore, marijuana can be clinically used to combat nausea and vomiting, epilepsy, muscle spasticity, anxiety, depression, pain, glaucoma, and symptoms of withdrawl from alcohol and narcotics." National Academy of Science Marijuana and Health Report June 1982 From tomj Mon Mar 21 15:17:21 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA09837; Mon, 21 Mar 94 15:17:20 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9403212317.AA09837@wps.com> Subject: News of the Weird [317] - 4Mar94 (fwd) To: shit-list Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 15:17:19 -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: 1646 Sorry Flesh, I swiped these from your list. Exceprts from: WEIRDNUZ.317 (News of the Weird, March 4, 1994 by Chuck Shepherd * In October, Canadian environmentalist William Lishman and an associate flew two ultralight aircraft from Blackstock, Ontario, to Gaines, N. Y., and then to Airlie, Va., leading a flock of 18 geese. The two men were demonstrating to the geese how to fly south for the winter. The geese had been raised in captivity and thus lacked migration skills. [Edmonton Journal-CP, 10- 20-93] * The trade association International Business Forms Industries, Inc., recently changed its name to The International Association Serving the Forms, Information Management, Systems Automation and Printed Communications Requirements of Business. [Print & Graphics newsletter, January 1994] * According to witnesses, a middle-aged man, 6-feet-4, with a gray beard robbed a convenience store in Perryopolis, Pa., in August. As a disguise, he was wearing a large rabbit head, including large, floppy ears. However, the face had been cut out so that the robber's face was fully visible. [The Tennessean, 8-28- 93] * In 1992, the Pro-Line Cap Company of Fort Worth was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for not having adequate restroom facilities for its female employees. Shortly afterward, according to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint filed in January 1994, the company, rather than add the restroom facilities, merely fired 30 female employees so as to remove the need. [Dallas Morning News, 1-5-94] -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Mon Mar 21 15:20:35 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA09876; Mon, 21 Mar 94 15:20:27 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9403212320.AA09876@wps.com> Subject: Weird news tidbits To: shit-list Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 15:20:26 -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: 1646 Sorry Flesh, I swiped these from your list. Excerpts from: WEIRDNUZ.317 (News of the Weird, March 4, 1994 by Chuck Shepherd * In October, Canadian environmentalist William Lishman and an associate flew two ultralight aircraft from Blackstock, Ontario, to Gaines, N. Y., and then to Airlie, Va., leading a flock of 18 geese. The two men were demonstrating to the geese how to fly south for the winter. The geese had been raised in captivity and thus lacked migration skills. [Edmonton Journal-CP, 10- 20-93] * The trade association International Business Forms Industries, Inc., recently changed its name to The International Association Serving the Forms, Information Management, Systems Automation and Printed Communications Requirements of Business. [Print & Graphics newsletter, January 1994] * According to witnesses, a middle-aged man, 6-feet-4, with a gray beard robbed a convenience store in Perryopolis, Pa., in August. As a disguise, he was wearing a large rabbit head, including large, floppy ears. However, the face had been cut out so that the robber's face was fully visible. [The Tennessean, 8-28- 93] * In 1992, the Pro-Line Cap Company of Fort Worth was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for not having adequate restroom facilities for its female employees. Shortly afterward, according to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint filed in January 1994, the company, rather than add the restroom facilities, merely fired 30 female employees so as to remove the need. [Dallas Morning News, 1-5-94] -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Mon Mar 21 23:32:57 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA11710; Mon, 21 Mar 94 23:32:54 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9403220732.AA11710@wps.com> Subject: Los Alamos... To: shit-list Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 23:32:53 -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: 2474 You may now take a peek at what LANL considers acceptable for mere mortals. Likely it's 99.9% dull. Maybe there'll be something scary. Hopefully the by-accident kind, you know, the kind of terrifying benevolence only true sickos can generate. BTW, he gave everything except the actual gopher invokation, which is: gopher nis5.lanl.gov You can be certain everything is logged. Keep this in mind before you go poking around in random hosts at LANL. The public stuff is fine, but don't play budding cracker from my fucking site!!!! >From CuD: Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 09:51:06 -0700 (MST) From: jeffj@NIS5.LANL.GOV(Jeffrey Johnson) Subject: New Gopher Service Available Now available! ---------------------------------- We are now running our own gopher server to facilitate easy access to group information. Currently, there are plans to make the following available: Searchable abstracts of group publications Foreign travel reports A searchable listing of group email addresses Pointers to other handy LANL services At the moment you will not find much information published, but we're hoping that that will change. If you have any suggestions about what should be published, please let me know by sending email to jeffj@nis5.lanl.gov. Keep in mind that published information can be text- only and that it must be non-sensitive information only. For the moment, the information on our server can be read by anyone on the Internet. Graphics and sound files can also be distributed over the network, but no mixture of the three is yet possible. A World Wide Web server is coming soon, which will allow us greater flexibility in what we can publish on the network. Access through the LANL Server: +------------------------------- 1. Start your gopher software - it should automatically connect to the main LANL gopher server. (TurboGopher for Macs, HGopher for PC's running Windows) 2. Select 'Information by Division' 3. Select 'Nonproliferation and International Security' 4. Select 'NIS-5 Information' You should now be connected to the NIS-5 Gopher server. Feel free to explore. The 'Information by Division' section under the main LANL server also contains pointers to all current laboratory Gopher and World Wide Web servers, so this is a good place to find information about other groups who run servers. -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif. From tomj Mon Mar 28 11:56:23 1994 Received: by fido.wps.com (5.67/wps.com-hackery) id AA02741; Mon, 28 Mar 94 11:56:07 -0800 From: tomj (Tom Jennings) Message-Id: <9403281956.AA02741@wps.com> Subject: Forward: Wired Banned (fwd) To: shitlist (Shit List archiver), sylvia@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Sylvia Maxwell) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 11:56:06 -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: 4146 Cute, huh. Max, maybe you can get FidoNews banned in the country it originates from! Well... can you discuss discussions about banned items? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Taara Eden Hoffman 544 Second Street Director of Publicity San Francisco, CA 94107 USA +1 (415) 904 0666 taara@wired.com Cyberspace Cannot Be Censored ***************************** WIRED Responds to Canadian Ban of Its April Issue Wednesday, March 23, 1994, San Francisco WIRED's April issue has been banned in Canada. WIRED's offense? Publication of a story called "Paul and Karla Hit the Net," a 400-word article about how Canadians are getting around a Canadian court decision to ban media coverage of details in the Teale-Homolka murder case. This article does not reveal details of the case. Instead, the article explains why the media ban has proven unenforceable and reports how information on the case is readily available to Canadians. According to a survey conducted by the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, 26 percent of those polled said they knew prohibited details of the trial, because they are continuously leaked by Canadian court witnesses, police, and others to the international media. Once this information is published, it pours back into Canada via fax, videocassettes, magazines and photocopies of articles, e-mail, Internet newsgroups, and other online services. In the United States, People magazine, and the TV show, A Current Affair as well as the New York Times and other publications and shows have covered the story and the ban. As WIRED's story and the action of Canada's Attorney General make clear, the ban is not only a waste of time and money,but has actually had the opposite effect of what was intended. Rumors and sensationalized accounts of the case abound, and the Teale-Homolka trial is one of the hottest topics of discussion among Canadians. "Banning of publications is behavior we normally associate with Third-World dictatorships," said WIRED publisher Louis Rossetto. "This an ominous indication that the violation of human rights is becoming Canadian policy." According to Rossetto, the Canadian Government's recent seizure of gay and lesbian periodicals under the guise of controlling "pornography" and its behavior in the Teale-Homolka case have made Canada a leading violator of free speech rights, and have set a scary precedent for other nations that would like to control what its citizens read and think. "Information wants to be free," said Jane Metcalfe, WIRED's president. "At the end of the 20th century, attempts to ban stories like this one are condemned to be futile. That WIRED's criticism of the ban has itself been banned is supremely ironic and utterly chilling." Since WIRED supports free speech, WIRED is making the text of its "banned" story with details on how readers can get more information on the case available on the Internet. Canadians and people around the world can discover exactly what the Canadian government is trying to keep hidden. The banned article text can be obtained via the following WIRED Online services: o WIRED Infobot e-mail server send e-mail to infobot@wired.com, containing the words "get homolka/banned.text" on a single line inside the message body o WIRED Gopher gopher to gopher.wired.com select "Teale-Homolka " o WIRED on World Wide Web http://www.wired.com select "Teale-Homolka " The complete text of WIRED 2.04 will be available from the Infobot, Gopher, and World Wide Web on April 19. =-=---==-=---=- Michael Gold --=--==---=- Online Grotto --=--=-=-=--=-= =-=---==-=---= WIRED Magazine --=--==--- michael@wired.com -=-=--=-==-- -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif.