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Computer underground Digest Wed June 1, 1994 Volume 6 : Issue 47
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ISSN 1004-042X
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Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET)
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Archivist: Brendan Kehoe
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Retiring Shadow Archivist: Stanton McCandlish
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Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth
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Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala
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Ian Dickinson
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Covey Editors: D. Bannaducci & S. Jones
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CONTENTS, #6.47 (June 1, 1994)
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File 1--Digital Cash system created (fwd)
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File 2--Announcing: The Electronic Cafe
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File 3--Problems at TCOE (fwd)
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File 4--NZ pilots Apple online Network
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File 5--CYBERSAM VS MIND CONTROL
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Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 10:09:16 -0500 (CDT)
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From: David Smith <bladex@BGA.COM>
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Subject: File 1--Digital Cash system created (fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
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From: "DigiCash Information" <info@DigiCash.nl>
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DIGICASH PRESS RELEASE
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World's first electronic cash payment over computer networks.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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(Release Date: May 27, 1994)
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Payment from any personal computer to any other workstation, over
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email or Internet, has been demonstrated for the first time, using
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electronic cash technology. "You can pay for access to a database, buy
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nsoftware or a newsletter by email, play a computer game over the net,
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receive $5 owed you by a friend, or just order a pizza. The
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possibilities are truly unlimited" according to David Chaum, Managing
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Director of DigiCash TM, who announced and demonstrated the product
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during his keynote address at the first conference on the World Wide
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Web, in Geneva this week.
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Electronic cash has the privacy of paper cash, while achieving the
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high security required for electronic network environments
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exclusively through innovations in public key cryptography. "It's the
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first software only solution. In the past we've pioneered such cash
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for chip cards and electronic wallets, always with a tamper-resistant
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chip for storing the value--now all you have to do is download the
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software and you're up and running" continues Dr. Chaum.
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The product works with Microsoft(R) Windows TM, Macintosh TM, and
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most UNIX TM platforms. It was shown integrated with Mosaic, the
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most popular software for people accessing databases, email, or other
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services on the Internet and World Wide Web. The graphic user
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interface allows intuitive "dragging and dropping" of icons
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representing stacks of coins, receipts, record books, etc.
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The company will be supplying the technology through other firms who
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will release the products, under various cooperation and trial
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programs. The user software, which allows both paying and receiving
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payment, will be distributed free of charge.
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The product was developed by DigiCash TM Corporation's wholly owned
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Dutch subsidiary, DigiCash TM BV. It is related to the firm's earlier
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released product for road pricing, which has been licensed to Amtech TM
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Corporation, of Dallas, Texas, worldwide leader in automatic road
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toll collection. This system allows privacy protected payments for
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road use at full highway speed from a smart card reader affixed to the
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inside of a vehicle. Also related is the approach of the EU supported
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CAFE project, of which Dr. Chaum is Chairman, which uses
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tamper-resistant chips inserted into electronic wallets.
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The underlying 'blind signature' technology was described in the
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article "Achieving Electronic Privacy," by David Chaum, Scientific
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American, August 1992.
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For more information contact:
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DigiCash bv info@digicash.nl
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Kruislaan 419 tel +31 20 665 2611
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1098 VA Amsterdam fax +31 20 668 5486
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The Netherlands
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Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 17:30:49 +0100 (BST)
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From: mac18@CUS.CAM.AC.UK(Sparky)
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Subject: File 2--Announcing: The Electronic Cafe
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Announcing: The Electronic Cafe
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Imagine a place where access to the Internet is as easy as buying a
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paper; where you can exchange knowledge and ideas with millions of
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people worldwide. Imagine a focus for the interface between your local
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community and the global community of the Internet.
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You are thinking about the Ecafe - a community comining music, art and
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imagination with the resources of a global network, a centre of
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activity where ordinary people can use the facilities of the Internet
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within their everyday lives.
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Bringing together a music venue, a cafe and a connection to the
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Internet, the Ecafe will give people access in a social setting. It
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will provide local community information, educational resources,
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electronic publishing, graphic design and an audience which spans the
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globe.
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It will be a place for people to gather, a place of education and
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creativity, a place where everyone is equal, providing a link to 15
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million minds at the speed of light. The Ecafe will be this and more,
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evolving via the imagination of its users into a local meeting place
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in the global community.
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The Electronic Cafe is simple in its goal; to provide Internet access
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to the general public, but the Ecafe will be more than just another
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connection onto the Internet. It will provide access for the public to
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the vast array of information sources available and help people to add
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to that resource, giving them the equipment to explore the creativity
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waiting to be discovered within this new medium.
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If you would like to find out more about the Ecafe then point your web
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browser to:
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http://www.cyberspace.org/u/ecafe/www/index.html
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or Email ecafe@cyberspace.org
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The Ecafe is scheduled to open by the end of this year in London. We
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are currently looking for backers and sponsors to support the project,
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if you would like to discuss the Ecafe in more detail, or perhaps even
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write an article, I would be only to happy to meet you. I am available
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in the UK over the next month and in America during July.
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Mark Cheverton (ecafe@cyberspace.org)
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363 King's College, Cambridge, England. CB2 1ST.
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The Electronic Cafe
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Email: ecafe@cyberspace.org
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WWW: http://www.cyberspace.org/u/ecafe/www/index.html
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Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 18:38:27 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@EFF.ORG>
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Subject: File 3--Problems at TCOE (fwd)
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>From brown@eff.org Tue May 24 13:51:26 1994
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Following is a post summing up the problems we are having on a local
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publicly owned BBS. Any advice?
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--Jim Maroon
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This message was from JIM MAROON to ALL
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originally in conference GeneralPub
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and was forwarded to you by JIM MAROON
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Most of you have no doubt heard about the problems at the Tulare
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County Office of Education BBS. I found out when a couple of
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conferences I used were withdrawn, but then reinstated. Well, I have
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picked around here and there and think I have a handle on what is going
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on, as well as some thoughts on how we ought to approach this.
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You are going to read in the Times Delta (our local newspaper)
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an article on this sometime this week. Among other things, the Delta
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article will report this as a county employee using county time and
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equipment to push personal political views. That is not what this is
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really about. This is about book burning. This is not about liberal vs
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conservative politics. This is about silencing voices with which we
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disagree through political maneuvering.
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Apparently, some individual (one of my fellow "liberal"
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Democrats) objected to the content of some of the messages that were
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being posted on some of the conferences on TCOE. He also felt
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that most of the posts and conferences were too conservative. Now, I
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know we liberals are outnumbered here in Tulare County, so it makes
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sense that most posts are going to be conservative in nature. Instead
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of coming out and debating the posters of these messages, thus fighting
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speech with speech, as would be the truly democratic approach, this
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individual instead chose to go behind the scenes and complain. The
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problem this censor had, however, was how does one go about censoring
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without looking like a censor? Well, he found a device.
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One of the jobs of a sysop, in my opinion, is to encourage
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conversation. One way to do that is to pass on controversial positions
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now and then. It is not possible to be a sysop and not state one's
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views on occasion. Roger Smith (we all know who the sysop is, so there
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is no need keep it out of this post) saw a message on an echo (the
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verbatim reproduction of the Paula Jones vs Bill Clinton brief) and
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forwarded it to the Soundoff echo. This took a total of about 4
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seconds. Admittedly, Roger could have done this at home, but is this
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really a big deal? Of course it isn't, and our censor knew that, but
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this was the proverbial foot in the door. He used this as an excuse to
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silence at least a half dozen echoes, Soundoff being one of them. Would
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he have complained about this had it been a post that praised the
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President or took another shot at Dan "The Target" Quail or Rush "Slim"
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Limbaugh or Ross "Ears" Perot? Of course not. He did this because he
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objected to the political content of the speech involved, not because of
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where and when it was done. So, these echoes are no more. They are not
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gone because they were unpopular. They are gone because they are
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conservative, and one person found that unfair. They may or may not be
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back.
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TCOE is bound by the First Amendment. We are going to see more
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and more public institutions going online, and in the future that will
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be the primary mode of getting online. That is why this issue is so
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important. This is not about some petty local political squabble. This
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is about the legal right to access information in an unfettered manner
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on a publicly funded BBS, regardless of political beliefs of the poster
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or the content of their posts. This is about the right to speak and the
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right to read. It is legally no different from the Internet. The courts
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have held that if a government institution provides a meeting room to
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anybody, it cannot refuse access to that meeting room to any group based
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on the religious or political beliefs of that group. Well, I see (and
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the courts would see) a conference as identical. The courts have found
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that publicly funded universities could not remove Internet listservs
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based on objection the content of those listservs, or block access to
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e-mail or bbs echoes.
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A BBS is just a bunch of folks sitting around talking. You can't
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dictate what speech is allowed and what speech is not allowed on a BBS
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run by a government institution.
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--Jim Maroon
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Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 10:43:18 +1200
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From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@VUW.AC.NZ>
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Subject: File 4--NZ pilots Apple online Network
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This is copied with permission of the author and editor, from the "New
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Zealand InfoTech Weekly", Monday May 30, 1994.
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NZ pilots Apple online Network
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by Adrienne Perry
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Apple Computer's new online information service is about to be piloted
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at 150 New Zealand sites before it launches worldwide in a few months.
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The pilot is part of an international test of the service that will
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compete with established online information networks such as
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Compuserve and Internet.
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e-World was announced by Apple at the Macworld computer show in San
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Francisco in January, and since then Apple has been constructing the
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database and signing up content providers.
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Apple agent CED Distributors will market the product in New Zealand.
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Managing director Alex Broughton says there will be a strong emphasis
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on local content, and e-World's as yet undisclosed pricing will be
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competitive with Compuserve.
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He says e-World will have an advantage over Internet in that the user
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interface will employ Apple's traditional user-friendliness and it
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will be very easy to navigate the service and find areas of interest.
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e-world will contain gateways into Compuserve and Internet.
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Initially, Apple intends to convert the 50-60,000 world-wide users of
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Applelink --- Apple's international e-mail service --- over to
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e-world. By the end of this year, e-World software will be bundled
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with every Apple computer sold.
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Apple computers account for about 12 per cent of the world's personal
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computers. However, e-World will also be available on PC-Windows, and
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should those sales take off the service could rapidly become a serious
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competitor for Compuserve.
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Mr Broughton says Apple Computers is exploring e-World software
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bundling deals with leading PC vendors in the United States.
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New Zealand pilot sites include banks, media and accounting firms, all
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levels of education, user groups, resellers, software houses,
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telecommunications carriers and IT managers.
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There is already a wide range of content on e-World.
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A Learning Centre contains Groliers Encyclopaedia, while an Arts and
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Leisure pavilion houses information about films, music, horoscopes,
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and the entertainment world.
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Electronic shopping will be available, and United States outdoor
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equipment retailer LL Bean is already selling its wares on the
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service. Retailers will probably supply full product details on
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CD-Rom as demand dictates, Mr Broughton says.
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The shopping corner will also include third-party Apple software
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products and a full Mac catalogue.
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The newstand will house news and commentary. Already online are USA
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Today, Reuters, and some information technology publications.
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Subscribers can isolate areas of interest and ask e-World to deliver
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on-line articles on those subjects at prescribed times.
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The Community Centre offers a multitude of forums for international
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conversations in groups or one-on-one sessions, while the Finance and
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Business Centre offers stockmarket news, investment advice, company
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profiles, teleworking advice, and live sessions with, for example,
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marketing guru Regis McKenna.
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Mr Broughton says New Zealand exporters could advertise their wares on
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the service.
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He says e-World can handle moving images and full interactive
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multi-media but it is limited by the lack of fibre optic cabling, and
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further developments will depend on network providers.
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e-World will run over 9600 baud lines to local BT (British Telecom)
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nodes in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch then direct to a
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California Stratus-based system.
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(gnat speaking again).
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I *hate* closed systems. It looks like Apple have learned nothing
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about the direction of the last 20 years. How many people will
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seriously want to advertise on Apple's system, when advertising on the
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Internet would reach a far larger audience? The gullible ones, I
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guess.
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As for Apple's e-World givng a friendly interface to the Internet,
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it's about time that someone pointed Apple at NCSA Mosaic. Come to
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think of it, someone already has. They're running an HTTP server. Is
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it really true that Apple are offering multimedia through the
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networks?! Gosh, I wish we'd thought of that for the World Wide Web.
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At least it's not as bad as last week's classic offering by the IT
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Weekly, where we were told that the Internet only has a text-based
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user interface. This was from people trying to sell Hyper-G, mind
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you. No mention of the Web at all.
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It looks like Apple are reinventing O'Reilly's GNN (http://gnn.com/)
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at considerable expense, and isolating the corporate customers that
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advertise with them from the biggest on-line audience around.
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Bah, and humbug.
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Nat
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Date: Sat, 21 May 94 01:06:39 EDT
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From: ALIENAIDED@AOL.COM
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Subject: File 5--CYBERSAM VS MIND CONTROL
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Copyright 1994 by W.H. Bowart
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An excerpt from
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OPERATION MIND CONTROL
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BOOK TWO
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CYBERSAM
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>From The Cybernetic Samisdat
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It's not easy to make a living as an investigative journalist. It's
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far easier to make a living writing advertorials, advertising paid
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garbage for affluent markets. But when you are compelled by a concern
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for truth, justice and what once was "the American way" to write about
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subjects that threaten the cryptocracy's plans you could find it hard
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to get published. What with most of the publishers of books,
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magazines, radio and television broadcast news departments having an
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cryptocracy agent in place, little gets out about things such as mind
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control. As a matter of fact, that's one reason to suspect any news of
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this kind that you read in the papers or see on the "happytalk" TV
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news.
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It's worth repeating the findings of the CIA's internal "Task Force on
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Greater CIA Openness": "...the public Affairs Office of the CIA now
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has relationships with reporters from every major wire service,
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newspaper, news weekly and television network in the nation... This
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has helped us turn some 'intelligence failure' stories into
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'intelligence success' stories... In many instances, we have persuaded
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reporters to postpone, change, hold or even scrap stories that could
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have adversely affected national security interests...1"
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The independent researcher of supressed subjects is left to struggle
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and strive. Once you could write books like this (Operation Mind
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Control) on an advance from a book publisher, but seldom any more. Few
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of the major publishers have the courage or the commitment to
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constitutional principles to take the chance and buck the invisible
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system. The establishment press has been co-opted. We are left with a
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people's news network, a samisdat. In the more innocent days of the
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1960's, the sociologist Tamotsu Shibutani concluded: "Various elite
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groups may seize institutional channels and persuade others to accept
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ideas that legitimize their ascendancy, but such advantages are
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generally temporary. Regardless of their formal philosophies most men
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are pragmatic in their actual orientation toward their world; a
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premium is placed upon accurate knowledge, for the simple reason that
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errors in the long run lead to painful consequences. Thus, successful
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politicians may; gain temporary ascendancy through devious maneuvers,
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but before long their victims become suspicious and their colleagues
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cynical. So long as there is some disparity of interests between those
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who control institutional channels and others, some situations are
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bound to be interpreted through rumors..."2
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"Although tyranny is not new," Shibutani wrote, "thoughtful men in
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recent years have become increasingly alarmed over awesome prospects
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arising from the development of effective techniques of political
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subjugation and control, especially through the manipulation of
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beliefs. In the last analysis political power rests on the consent or
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acquiescence of the governed, but if the views of men can be
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manipulated, is there any safeguard to limit the power of those who
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control the channels of communication?"
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Since the passage of the National Security Act, government lying
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became institutionalized. In the 1950's and 1960s, U.S. Army planes
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carried out biological warfare attacks against American and Canadian
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cities by spraying them with supposedly harmless bacteria. The army
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told local officials it was just testing a radar-deflecting chaff.
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While the bacteria was supposed to be harmless, several people's
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deaths are attributed to it.
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History will show that more freedoms were lost and more lies told
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during the 12 years George Bush was at the helm of the United States
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(as both V.P. to a senile movie actor President, then as his
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sucessor). The Bush administration drafted regulations on the use of
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deception to provide cover for secret programs.
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The regulations are part of the National Industrial Security Program
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Operating Manual, which sets forth security procedures for government
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agencies and contractors involved with classified programs The
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Department of Defense wrote a supplement to the manual for "special
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access" (read that "black") programs, whose existence could not even
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be acknowledged. Dated May 29, 1992, and stamped "draft" the
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supplement stated:
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"Cover stories may be established for unacknowledged programs in order
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to protect the integrity of the program from individuals who do not
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have a need to know. Cover stories must be believable and cannot
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reveal any information regarding the true nature of the contract.
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Cover stories for Special Access Programs must have the approval of
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the PSO (Program Security Officer) prior to dissemination."
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The Scientific American commented: " The supplement also notes that
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special access programs must have 'nonattributable' telephone lines,
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also called 'Hello lines,' connecting them to the outside world.
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Personnel who answer such a telephone must 'state the proper
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salutation, e.g. Good Morning or Hello. Do not use the company name.'"
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Who's paying the bills of government? The people who don't have the
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need to know, right? Does this mean we no longer live in a democratic
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republic?
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During the last years of the Soviet Union, in the decay of the
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totalitarian regime that was called communism, when repression was
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complete, the press controlled by the state, there came from the west
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two revolutionary tools: satellite television and the photocopy
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machine. Through the round the clock news reports broadcast from CNN
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the repressed people of the Soviet Union learned the truth about the
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rest of the world. Through the capability of instant publication made
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possible by the technology of "dryography", the photocopy and fax
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machines allowed the people to communicate with each other despite the
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official channels of communication. The government controlled
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newspapers, magazines and news programs on the government controlled
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radio and television stations were reduced by the new technology to
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mere trivial forms of entertainment. People would turn on the
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"official news" just to have a good laugh. Informed by their grass
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|
roots samisdat they could laugh at the transparent propaganda which
|
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was pumped through the institutional news channels. The people knew
|
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what was happening through their underground press -- clandestine
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dryography machines working through the night putting out the truth,
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circulated hand-to-hand by a network of citizens.
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The new electronic technology has affected us too. We in America, for
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the first time, can look in on any revolution anywhere -- live. We
|
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might even be a part of them without leaving our desks. Here's Whole
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Earth Review Editor, Howard Rheingold writing in his book Virtual
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Community:
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"I was following an eyewitness report from Moscow during the coup
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attempt, or China during the Tiananmen Square incident, or Israel and
|
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Kuwait during the Gulf War, passed directly from citizen to citizen
|
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through an ad hoc network patched together from cheap computers and
|
|
ordinary telephone lines, cutting across normal geographic and
|
|
political boundaries by piggybacking on the global communications
|
|
infrastructure...
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"People in virtual communities use words on screens to exchange
|
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pleasantries and argue, engage in intellectural discourse, conduct
|
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commerce, exchange knowledge, share emotional support, make plans,
|
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brainstorm, gossip, feud, fall in love, find friends and lose them,
|
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play games, flirt, create a little high art and a lot of idle talk.
|
|
People in virtual communities do just about everything people do in
|
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real life, but we leave our bodies behind. You can't kiss anybody and
|
|
nobody can punch you in the nose, but a lot can happen within those
|
|
boundaries. To the millions who have been drawn into it, the richness
|
|
and vitality of computer-linked cultures is attractive, even
|
|
addictive.
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"There's no such thing as a single, monolithic, online subculture;
|
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it's more like an ecosystem of subcultures, some frivolous, others
|
|
serious. The cutting edge of scientific discourse is migrating to
|
|
virtual communities, where you can read the electronic pre-preprinted
|
|
reports of molecular biologist and cognitive scientists. At the same
|
|
time, activits and educational reformers are using the same medium as
|
|
a political tool. You can use virtual communities to find a date, sell
|
|
a lawnmower, publish a novel, conduct a meeting..."
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The free press, it once was said, belongs to him who owns the press.
|
|
Now, today, it belongs to him who has access to the internet. The free
|
|
press is dead in the "establishment" media, but it's alive and well in
|
|
cyberspace. Electronic bulletin boards and e-mail and computer
|
|
networks are carrying a good deal of the truth which flies in the face
|
|
of all the official reports and government propaganda. ( Though beware
|
|
of disinformation.)
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|
|
|
As an editorial in the first MONDO2000 reflected the size and shape
|
|
and climate of the burgeoning cyberspace. It's all about: "what to do
|
|
until the millennium comes. We're talking about Total Possibilities.
|
|
Radical assaults on the limiits of biology, gravity and time. The end
|
|
of Artificial Scarcity. The dawn of a new humanism. High-jacking
|
|
technology for personal empowerment, fun and games. Flexing those
|
|
synapses! Stoking those neuropeptides! Making Bliss States our normal
|
|
waking consciousness. Becoming the Bionic Angel... But things are
|
|
going to get weirder before they get better. The Rupture before the
|
|
Rapture. Social and economic dislocation that will make the Cracked
|
|
80's look like summer camp..."
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|
|
|
And it's not all happening on screens. A lot of it finds it way into
|
|
the finality of print -- the old fashioned way -- but not in the
|
|
"establishment press," in the samisdat. When I founded the Underground
|
|
Press Syndicate (UPS) in 1965 there were only five papers. UPS grew
|
|
within a few years to contain a 200 periodical membership with
|
|
millions of readers. Now there's a magazine that just reviews
|
|
underground, alternative and fringe publication. At last count there
|
|
were an estimated 5000 plus regularly published "zines" of all shapes
|
|
and sizes devoted to all sorts of themes and ideas. Here is art and
|
|
here is literature and here in the samisdat is truth that might make
|
|
it's way into the "mainstream" in years to come, meanwhile it's
|
|
happening now.
|
|
|
|
Cyberpunk cryptowriter for MONDO2000, Xandor Korzybski offered a
|
|
piece entitled Mind Kontrol Ultra3:
|
|
|
|
"Remember, when you wake up agitated at 3:00 in the morning , that's
|
|
when they're running ELF transmitters to program your dreams. It's
|
|
also the time when most UFOs appear -- quelle coincidence! Let me
|
|
explain: They send out subliminal signals over all radio and TV
|
|
channels and use microwave antennas to beam instructions via ELF
|
|
modulation into your heads to reinforce hypnotic screen memories of
|
|
alien doctors in spaceships, when they're actually Frankensteinian
|
|
Nazi scientists running bizarre eugenics experiments in underground
|
|
tunnels created by massive subterranean machines which are the cause
|
|
of that slowly moving hum you hear underground in Taos and other parts
|
|
of the Southwest.
|
|
|
|
"But you don't have to have an intranasal brain implant to be under
|
|
their control. Hemisync tone sequences, subliminal instructions,
|
|
reverse-speech hidden messages, magnetic signals, infrasonics,
|
|
ultrasoncis (like Hitler) are all part of the total panoply. And throw
|
|
away your Synchro-Energizer: the CIA programs mind-machine circuitry
|
|
to create zombie automatons. In fact, the entire candybrain New Age
|
|
movement invented by LSD monger Willis Harman under directions from
|
|
the British Tavistock Institute in London, is a massive MI6-controlled
|
|
deception operation designed to hypnotize millions and convert them
|
|
into slaves to the New World Order..."
|
|
|
|
Obviously Xandor's wisdom was formed by his interface with cyberspace
|
|
dissolved lightly in psychedelics. Paranoid? Perhaps just accurate and
|
|
insightful reporting.
|
|
|
|
And the days of the freedom of cyberspace may be numbered, at least
|
|
the days of the "information highway" as a medium of free expression
|
|
are numbered. A bill making mandatory the insertion of a "Clipper
|
|
Chip", a government proprietary encryption device, has been proposed
|
|
and looks like it will be passed into law. This chip ( in one form or
|
|
another) will be installed in every phone, every computer, every fax
|
|
machine, whether or not this version of the bill passes Congress or
|
|
not. Eventually some version of it will pass and that will give the
|
|
NSA, CIA and FBI the right to read over your shoulder. It will give
|
|
them the ability to read the private mail of citizens and business
|
|
alike without your knowledge. While insisting that this is merely in
|
|
the interests of national security, the real reason, it would appear,
|
|
is so that the cryptocracy can get "hot business tips" and know which
|
|
way to shift the black ops funds for fatter profits outside the
|
|
public's purview. When this happens, only the gullible or the cunning
|
|
will send anything but the most trivial communications on this
|
|
"information highway."
|
|
|
|
Far more prevalent and reliable a form of communication is the
|
|
papersam, a paper "information highway" upon which news is transferred
|
|
hand-to-hand in photocopy format. On one 100+ page document I received
|
|
( a paper on the murders of civilians by ATF and FBI agents at Waco,
|
|
Texas) the cover page of the photocopied document read: "A.P.F.N. ( of
|
|
which I still haven't figured the meaning)= "Friends FAXING Friends...
|
|
for FREEDOM". It was followed by the observation: "... no conspiracy
|
|
can survive expose'.
|
|
|
|
Some of the information in this artifact you hold in your hands, came
|
|
to our attention through this "network of friends faxing friends( or
|
|
E-mailing or swapping photocopies)". Much of the information herein
|
|
has been verified, but much also has not. ( Hopefully, future editions
|
|
of this book will evolve to weed out the disinformation.) To our best
|
|
estimates as much as 1/3 of the information could be untrue due to
|
|
deliberately planted "disinformation", lies which have been sown by
|
|
the cryptocracy to mislead and confuse us. In this edition (Book Two)
|
|
We have used information that has been verified by at least three
|
|
sources. That rule produce 100% accuracy in the first edition (Book
|
|
One). Some things which have appeared in photocopy or via e-mail or
|
|
downloaded files have been deleted because, unlike the practice in
|
|
transitory cyberspace, in the fixity of print they must be considered
|
|
libelous until proven true.
|
|
|
|
The reader is encouraged to network with others and tap into the rich
|
|
flow of the cybernetic samisdat (cybersam) -- probably our only source
|
|
of reliable communication in the information age. You can trust that
|
|
all the cryptocracy's secrets will be revealed eventually in the
|
|
cybernetic samisdat (cybersam.) There are patriots at work even within
|
|
the closets of the secret agencies. The CIA's phones are tapped. ( A
|
|
posting on Internet gave all the computer-link phone numbers of
|
|
government contractors working on high technology, and it is reported
|
|
on the samisdat that there's a mad scramble going on to disconnect all
|
|
secret government facilities from the Internet. You think it's
|
|
because someone posted their secret access codes?) The NSA cryptocrats
|
|
are being remotely viewed at all times by patriots within their own
|
|
ranks.( NSA's "confidential -- not to leave the building" manual for
|
|
prospective employees was published on the net.)
|
|
|
|
The force of freedom urges all spirits toward the light. Secrecy is
|
|
not the light, does not promote truth, shall not make you free.
|
|
Secrecy protects the guilty, covers both crimes and mistakes, and
|
|
makes everyone suffer at least from incompetence for 20 years, or the
|
|
length of the classification term.
|
|
|
|
A government is not smarter than its people. A people survives.
|
|
Governments do not. (So far.) And, thank you Dr. McLuhan: when
|
|
information travels at the speed of light there can be no secrecy -- (
|
|
nor copyrights. )
|
|
|
|
The strength of the brief human adventure has come from the
|
|
creativity of the people and the free exchange of ideas. Creativity
|
|
thrives in chaos. That's why the cybersam is so dynamic and alive. To
|
|
the degree that a cryptocracy would try to order the life of a nation,
|
|
to the degree that it would control and suppress the creativity of the
|
|
people is to the degree that it will fail, sinking into the quicksand
|
|
of its own secret codes.
|
|
|
|
"Ours is... a generation in which manipulation of outlook through
|
|
ingenious propagandistic devices is commonplace, where ruses,
|
|
unsubstantiated testimony, and doctored evidence play decisive parts
|
|
in local and national life," Shibutani wrote. ( And anyone who has
|
|
obtained their own FBI file under the Freedom of Information Act knows
|
|
what Shibutani is talking about.) "What makes decisions in such
|
|
unsettled times so important is that crises are the crucibles out of
|
|
which many innovations emerge; new modes of action often get their
|
|
initial direction in attempts to cope with emergencies..." ( One
|
|
wonders why Shibutani's Improvised News has been out of print for so
|
|
many years?)
|
|
|
|
"Our nation, our world is in crisis. It would appear that The New
|
|
World Order is being forced upon us, without our knowledge or consent.
|
|
We are not being informed about its purpose. We are not being educated
|
|
about its meaning. We have not been invited to participate in its
|
|
creation. Like the subjects of evil psychoscientists under pain/drug
|
|
hypnosis we are being used without our knowledge and against our wills
|
|
by a nameless, faceless cryptocracy which is engaged in a futile
|
|
struggle to keep its own existence secret at the expense of our
|
|
pursuit of happiness. But when information travels at the speed of
|
|
light there is no secrecy, so the people are becoming aware that this
|
|
Emperor too has no clothes.
|
|
|
|
"Rumors ...flourish in situations characterized by social unrest.
|
|
Those who undergo strain over a long period of time -- victims of
|
|
sustained bombings, survivors of a long epidemic, a conquered populace
|
|
coping with an army of occupation, civilians grown weary of a long
|
|
war, prisoners in a concentration camp, ( a nation whose leaders are
|
|
assassinated by lone nuts), residents of neighborhoods marked by
|
|
interethnic tension -- become restless and dissatisfied" Shibutani
|
|
wrote. "...whenever individuals experience impulses that cannot be
|
|
satisfied within the existing social framework, they become restless.
|
|
They feel balked, insecure, alienated, and often lonely. When those
|
|
who are similarly frustrated come together, they exchange views and
|
|
thereby reinforce and intensify one another's discomfort. When men are
|
|
collectively dissatisfied, the customary is called into question and
|
|
those involved became acutely sensitized to possibilities of change...
|
|
|
|
"...if the demand for news in a public exceeds the supply made
|
|
available through institutional channels, rumor construction is likely
|
|
to occur."
|
|
|
|
"There is widespread agreement," Shibutani wrote," that known or
|
|
suspected censorship increases the incidence of rumors.
|
|
|
|
"Rumor is a substitute for news; in fact, it is news that does not
|
|
develop in institutional channels. Unsatisfied demand for news-- the
|
|
discrepancy between information needed to come to terms with a
|
|
changing environment and what is provided by formal news channels --
|
|
constitutes the crucial condition of rumor construction."
|
|
|
|
The information contained in the following pages has arrived here
|
|
through the alternative news channels of the information age. Only
|
|
time will tell how much we can depend upon these new channels. The
|
|
following information is unofficial. It could be mistaken, but it is
|
|
published with the intention of discovering the truth. In the next
|
|
edition of this book, we'll update this information, scoring its
|
|
reliability and accuracy. Regardless of the accuracy of minute
|
|
details, there seems to be a trend. The collective belief, the group
|
|
feeling is being expressed through the Cybersam:
|
|
|
|
"Have you figured it out yet?" Xandor Korzybsi asks. "OK, let me spell
|
|
it out for all you pathetic autists: They know exactly which ELF
|
|
frequencies, waveforms, and code sequences (brainwave-frequency region
|
|
pulse-code modulation superimposed widely on power lines, radio, TV,
|
|
and microwave transmissions) to use and can create any emotion or
|
|
pathology they please. You don't. And you probably don't own a real
|
|
ELF detector! You poor bleating sheep don't even know they're ALREADY
|
|
using ELF generators in malls, restaurants, and bars to maximize
|
|
throughput and revenues -- even magnetizing fans in air conditioners
|
|
and refrigerators to create pulsed ELF waves to zap you. It will all
|
|
be duly captured by Hillary's SmartCard which will store your
|
|
brainwaves and monitor all transactions everywhere you go, so the
|
|
Thought Police can download it any old time via the data superhighway
|
|
and issue the ultimate ACCESS DENIED. By the way, you can't escape ELF
|
|
-- there's no way to shield low frequency magnetic waves ..."
|
|
|
|
The only hope is when all information does travel at the speed of
|
|
light.
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Your feedback is welcome.
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Copies of the entire ms. Operation Mind Control, Updated and Revised
|
|
1994 edition can be obtained from the author for $25 by writing POB
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35072 Tucson, Az. 85740.
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End of Computer Underground Digest #6.47
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