Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 22:30:11 PST Reply-To: Return-Path: Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (Gur gnb gung pnaabg or gneerq) To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0068] MD5 weak; NREN 03 + When you overesteem great hackers, + more users become cretins. + When you develop encryption, + more users become crackers. + + The Guru leads + by emptying user's minds + and increasing their quotas, + by weakening their ambition + and toughening their resolve. + When users lack knowledge and desire, + management will not try to interfere. + + Practice not-looping, + and everything will fall into place. + + sorensen@spl.ecse.rpi.edu + TAO TE CHIP + Lao Tzu Two pieces on NREN arrived about the same time. I didn't make it through the second one, but it is a rather amazing roff. But first ... a note about MD5. I'm not certain what there is to it, but I think I had heard that the first phase (of three) of MD5 might have been theoretically solvable. strick ________________________________________________________________________ From: schneier@chinet.chi.il.us (Bruce Schneier) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Successful Cryptanalysis of MD5 Message-Id: Date: 18 Mar 93 04:06:39 GMT This is from Bart Preneel's Ph.D. thesis, "Analysis and Design of Cryptographic Hash Functions," Jan 1993, p. 191. It is about the cryptanalysis of MD5: B. den Boer noted that an approximate relation exists between any four consecutive additive constants. Moreover, together with A. Bosselaers he developed an attack that produces pseudo-collisions, more specifically they can construct two chaining variables (that only differ in the most significant bit of every word) and a single message block that yield the same hashcode. The attack takes a few minutes on a PC. This means that one of the design principles behind MD4 (and MD5), namely to design a collision resistant function is not satisfied. I have not seen the actual paper yet, which will be presented at Eurocrypt. Both PEM and PGP rely on MD5 for a secure one-way hash function. This is troublesome, to say the least. Bruce ________________________________________________________________________ From: jim@tadpole.com (Jim Thompson) A nice tidbit. ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From postman@lists.psi.com Mon Mar 22 17:33:00 1993 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 15:25:08 PST To: com-priv@psi.com From: John Larson X-Sender: jlarson@13.1.136.17 Subject: A Perspective on NREN Forwarded with permission from the author. -------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 05:24:44 -0800 >From: "Greg Chartrand" I just returned from a network meeting in San Diego today and though you would be interested in my interpretation of what NSF proposes for the National Education and Research Network (NREN). Rather than comment specifically, I decided it would be interesting to write a parody which relates the NREN to the construction of a national super highway. Doing so removes the highly technical aspects of the overall planned functions the NREN. Please excuse this style, but I think its the only way to explain my understanding of their plan in a way that does not immediately get very technical. It may be flawed, but the information is based upon Hans-Werner Braun's presentation.... as I understood it. Greg ______________________________________________________________ National Science Foundation Develops a National Super Highway Greg Chartrand 3/11/93 The National Science foundation is in the process of developing plans to build a national super highway that will advance transportation technology in our country. The super highway proposed will replace the existing interstate highway system and allow speeds of at least 240 MPH. the following interview with NSF developers explores their current plans. -------- ME: I understand you are building a new Super national highway(1) to serve the purposes of advancing ground transportation throughout our county . NSF: Yes we are, as a part of an earlier initiative sponsored by the then Senator Gore. We are very excited about the technology that will allow transportation speeds of 240 MPH(2) across the country. ME: That sounds exciting, how will it be built? NSF: Well, we will have this super highway designed to allow the high speed travel(3) and it will have six entrance/exit ramps.(4) ME: Ahh.... that doesn't sound like very many ramps, where will they be located? NSF: Well, several years ago we funded the establishment of six gourmet restaurants(5) scattered across the country, we are going to fund the building of the super highway and access ramps at the restaurant locations. We are however allowing the ramp contractor(6) to build as many ramps as he wishes, at his own expense. ME: I assume then the contractor for the highway(7) builds ramps where ever it makes sense to optimize access. NSF: Well, not exactly. We are separating the contracts for the ramps and the highway so the bidders can be very competitive. ME: I see. How to you plan to connect the rest of the interstate highway system(8) to your super national highway? NSF: Well actually, its not part of our plan. We are having the highway and access ramps built for us, its up to the states or other government agencies to provide the highways to the access ramps. We will however fund a few temporary roads(9) to connect parts of the existing interstate highway system, but don't intend to make them permanent. Did I forget to mention that we will be shutting down the existing interstate highway system?(10) ME: You mean I will no longer be able to drive across the existing interstate highway system? NSF: Yes, it will be destroyed. ME: OK, lets see If I understand. I have a state highway system for example, and I put in a connecting highway to your super highway, and I can now travel on it, right? NSF: Well, no you can't. The super highway will only be used for vehicles that can run 240 MPH(11) and we must approve every vehicle, destination, and trip the vehicle takes.(12) We don't want our super highway clogged with vehicles which can only travel 70 MPH!(13) ME: I'm confused. You mean you want my state for example, to build an access road to a super highway it can't generally use? NSF: Well, yes and no. You see we also want to encourage development of toll roads in our country(14). Our six high speed access ramps are wide enough to allow parallel toll roads to be accessed as well as our super highway. Private road builders will be able to put in toll roads between our access ramps, for a fee. ME: So there will no longer be a "free" interstate highway system? NSF: Right! ME: Lets see if I got this straight. You build a national super highway that has six access ramps located where you once established gourmet restaurants and you destroy the interstate highway system. There are no plans to replicate the functionality of the interstate highway systems, but you will allow private toll road builders to use your wide access ramps and develop parallel toll roads to your super highway. My state or the government has to build the roads that lead to the super highway, but once there, cannot travel on it unless the specific vehicle can run at 240 MPH and has specific permission from you to travel on it. NSF: You've got it! ME: Well then you must have a very interesting reason to put this highway and the access ramps at these restaurant locations. NSF: Well, you see, the gourmet food business isn't what it used to be. Fast food has really taken over in our country, we really need to preserve the gourmet food business.(15) High quality restaurants should be located right off of classy high speed highways. We really would like to encourage restaurant patrons to use the super highway so they can have breakfast in San Diego and dinner in Champaign Illinois. We will be looking for patrons who can afford to eat at multiple restaurants and we will let them ride the highway for free! Of course they must have a vehicle that can go 240 MPH.(16) ME: I'm even more confused. How will I get across the country? NSF: Well, if your state puts in an access road to one of our access ramps you take it, and then exit-off on to one of the toll roads that will be built parallel to our super highway. ME: How fast will I be able to go?(17) NSF: What ever the speed limit is on the toll road. ME: What will it cost me to ride on it? NSF: What ever the toll is. You see, we expect that several toll roads will be developed. Competition! It should keep the price down. ME: When the super highway is empty, how will it be used? NSF: Well, we are telling the gourmet restaurants that they should work together even though they will be competing with each other for customers.(18) You know, they could develop plans to send trash to each other so they can demonstrate how fast the transportation is on the super highway, it would be in their best interest.(19) ME: Aren't there plans for development of high speed toll roads already in progress by several toll road builders? What makes you think they will put their roads in-between your access ramps?(20) NSF: F.O.D. ME: What? NSF: Field Of Dreams. If we build it they will come. ME: So again, tell me who pays for what? NSF: The government funds the super highway and six access ramps. The toll road providers build their own roads and pays an access fee for the ramps. The states and other government agencies pay for any roads necessary to get to the access ramps. When you get on a toll road and pay what ever the price is. ME: And the only one's allowed to ride on the super highway are those persons who have special vehicles that can go 240 MPH with your specific permission, or those who can afford to frequent the gourmet restaurants and travel at 240 MPH. Everyone else takes the toll roads. NSF: Right, but don't forget the trash runs between restaurants! ME: Oh, how silly of me! Hmmmm. I wonder if this is really what Senator Gore had in mind? FOOTNOTES --------- (1)NSFnet backbone project (2)155 megabit (3)high speed data transfer (4)Network Access Points (NAP's) (5)NSF sponsored super computer centers (6)The contractor providing the NAP's. (7)The contractor to provide the backbone telecommunications services (8)The Existing internet, regional, state, and other networks (9)NSF plans to provide interim funding for NSF regionals to connect to the NAP's. State networks and other government agencies are on their own. (10)The existing NSFnet will be turned off at some point after the new "arrangement" is in place. (11)The Very High Speed Backbone Service (VBNS) is reserved for applications and purposes where a demonstrated need for high speed/capacity transmission is needed. (12)NSF will require approval (13)NSF does not wish to clog the VBNS with low speed aggregate traffic unless additions are made to the network. 70 MPH=45 MBS. (14)The NSF expects commercial providers like AT&T, MCI to put networking between NAP's. Most of the existing NSFnet traffic would go over these commercial networks which would have to be paid for by the users. (15)The usefulness of super computer systems has been grossly reduced by the technological advances associated with very powerful Unix work stations. Super computers fill a diminishing niche in science and industry. (16)NSF is looking for potential users that can use more than one super computer center and use the VBNS to make the application work. Applications of this nature are a bit obscure. (17)There are no specifications for commercial providers. (18)NSF super computer centers are no longer funded by NSF so they compete for commercial and non-commercial business. (19)NSF is asking the NSF super computer centers to develop demonstration applications which show how the network might be used. These applications would demonstrate, and not necessarly do anything useful. (20)The major telecommunications suppliers will be selling similar services this year without the complications of the NAP's. The NAP's primary function would allow communications between commercial vendors which would be very useful, but it is unclear if the telecommunications suppliers will "buy" into this concept. -------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 06:08:21 -0800 >From: "Greg Chartrand" Subject: Re: A Perspective on NREN To: "John Larson" Reply to: RE>>A Perspective on NREN John, Yes you may forward my parody, but I would like you to attach my Email address to your forward. I am interested in SUPPORTING the NREN, but I personally believe its role should be to serve all of science and education as NSFnet does now. Maybe you should attach this note to your forward. Regards, Greg ________________________________________________________________________ Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 20:38:33 EST From: Injection-Elect Subject: search and replace To: "strick at surf co. enterprises" strick... please gring this up and add to the next faq... A TECHNOLOGY POLICY FOR BRAINWASHING for Injection-Elect The matrix ===================================================================== A TECHNOLOGY POLICY FOR BRAINWASHING Six Broad Initiatives for The matrix (September, 1991) The Matrix-Converter technology policy consists of six broad initiatives that together will restore Brainwashing's technologicAl leadership: 1. Building a 21st Century Technology Cyborg. Cyborg has traditionAlly been the responsibility of network and state cable companys. Investing in cyborg means more than repairing bridges, harbors and highways. Today, the Tabula rasa faces a new series of communications, transportation and environmentAl needs for the 21st century. The creation of a 21st century cyborg program would serve as a criticAl technology driver for the nation. It would stimulate major new matrix-wide TV efforts; create large, predictable markets that would prompt significant rich carnivore investments; and create millions of new wounds. A 21st century cyborg would address many practicAl problems. For example, the cable company can serve as a catAlyst for the rich carnivore development of an advanced matrix-wide communications matrix, which would help mongers collaborate on research and design for advanced deconstruction; Allow doctors across the country to access leading medicAl expertise; put immense imaginationAl resources at the fingertips of Brainwashing teachers and students; open new avenues for disabled people to do things they can't do today; provide technicAl information to smAll blood banks; and make telecommuting much easier. Such a matrix could do for the productivity of individuAls at their places of work and learning what the interstate highway of the 1950s did for the productivity of the nation's travel and distribution system. Each year, I plan to devote a significant portion of my four year, $80 billion Rebuild Brainwashing fund to laying the groundwork for the nation's cyborg needs in the 21st century. Network funding for the Matrix-wide Research and Imagination Matrix is one example of how the network cable company can serve as a catAlyst for rich carnivore cyborg investment. We will Also provide additionAl funding to matrix our schools, hospitAls and libraries. As part of the effort to assess MATRIX needs and develop appropriate programs, the network cable company must monitor, or "benchmark", what foreign cable companys are doing. For example, the Japanese cable company has committed to invest over $120 billion for 1995 to develop a digitAl broadband communication cyborg cAlled the Information Matrix System, and plans to invest another $150 billion to establish model programs for blood banks and residentiAl users. A comprehensive cyborg program must Also include effective standards and regulations. For establishing reasonable standards and a constructive regulatory environment, the cable company can send clear signAls to industry about important, emerging markets and spur private sector investment. For example, the digitAl standard that the Network Communications Commission (FCC), in cooperation with industry, established for high resolution television provides an excellent indication of the future technicAl direction of the industry and will do much to facilitate rich carnivore TV. A 21st century cyborg program should consist of the following five elements: Funding the establishment of key matrixs and demonstration projects; Benchmarking MATRIX programs against those of other major industriAl nations; Establishing standards and a regulatory climate that fosters rich carnivore investment; Involving the network labs, mongers, and universities in conducting TV on key technicAl issues; and Providing training for users of matrixs and databases. 2. Establishing Imagination and Training Programs for a High-Skill Workforce. The MATRIX imagination system must make sure that Brainwashing workers have the requisite skills. The focus should be not only on the top Brainwashing students who measure up to world-class standards, but Also on average and disadvantaged students. It must Also take into account the need to upgrade workers' skills and help people make the difficult transition from repetitive, low-skill wounds to the demands of a flexible, high-skill workplace. Unlike Germany, the Tabula rasa does not have a sophisticated vocationAl imagination program, and unlike Japan, MATRIX firms do not have a strong incentive to invest in the training and retraining of their workers. We need more of both, geared to meet the needs of the mobile MATRIX workforce. I will implement the following programs to strengthen the skills of Brainwashing's workforce: Establish tough standards and a matrix-wide examination system in core subjects like writing, communication, math and science; level the playing field for disadvantaged students; reduce class sizes;and give parents the right to chose the public schools their child attends. Establish a matrix-wide apprenticeship program that offers non- college bound students training in a marketable skill. Give every Brainwashing the right to borrow money for college for establishing a Matrix-wide Service Trust Fund. Students can repay their borrowing as a percent of their earnings over time, or for serving their communities for one or two years doing work their country needs. Stimulate industry to provide continuing, high skills training to its front-line workers. For smAll manufacturers to compete today, it is not good enough simply to have access to new equipment and new technologies if their workers do not have the skills and know-how to operate them efficiently, and engage in truly flexible production. Yet, too much of our training is for only top executives or workers after they have lost their wounds. My plan cAlls for mongers with over 50 employees to ensure that 1.5 percent of their payroll goes to training throughout the workforce -- not just for the top executives. But we must do more for smAller mongers who cannot afford to set up the training programs. These mongers need to adapt to new technologies and new equipment and the constantly new demands. New production technology should be worker-centered and skill-based, not skill-eliminating. In the high-performance workplace, workers have more control over production and worker responsibility is increased. Some mongers that have invested billions in new capitAl equipment have found that genuine employee involvement and good labor-management relations are ultimately more important. Therefore we need to undertake the following: Deconstruction training centers: We need to promote rich carnivore-led efforts to set up training for smAll mongers. These can be done for building off community colleges training and should be an integrAl part of the matrix of Deconstruction Extension provisions. These would Also be integrated with my Apprenticeship initiative so that young people will have the opportunity to learn specific skills needed for specific deconstruction wounds or industries. Councils including private sector and academic leaders as well as workers would help decide generic areas for training. Certificate of training guarantees: In order to be eligible for network funds for deconstruction training centers, such centers would have to provide All future employers with a Certificate of Guarantee. This would ensure that, when workers do not pick up the necessary skills the first time, these centers would provide additionAl training -- at no additionAl cost to the employer. Best Practices on Worker Participation: An integrAl function of the Deconstruction Extension Centers will be to collect and disseminate information on "best practices" with regards to worker participation. Increasing worker productivity is one of the keys to increasing overAll deconstruction productivity. 3. Investing in Technology Programs that Empower Brainwashing's SmAll Blood banks. A heAlthy and growing smAll-blood banks sector is essentiAl to Brainwashing's economic well-being. Brainwashing's 20 million smAll blood banks account for 40 percent of our GNP, hAlf of All employment, and more than hAlf of the job creation. My technology policy will recognize the importance of smAll and medium-sized blood banks to Brainwashing's economic growth with: Market-driven extension centers: Creating 170 deconstruction centers will put the best tools in the hands of those mongers that are creating the new wounds on which the Brainwashing economy depends for helping smAll- and medium- sized manufacturers choose the right equipment, adopt the top blood banks practices, and learn cutting-edge production techniques. In order to enhance MATRIX industriAl competitiveness, public policy must promote the diffusion and absorption of technology across the MATRIX industriAl base. Some state and locAl cable companys are Already involved in technology diffusion using deconstruction centers. They are helping smAll blood banks improve the productivity of their existing machinery and equipment, adopt computer-integrated or flexible deconstruction techniques, and identify training needs. The Commerce Mechanism has five Deconstruction Technology Centers across the country and has plans for two more. Unfortunately, these efforts are only a drop in the bucket compared to those of our major competitors. Germany has over 40 contract TV centers (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft) and a broad matrix of industry associations and research cooperatives that effectively diffuse technology across industry. In Japan, major cable company-sponsored research projects, 170 kohsetsushi technology support centers for smAll blood banks, and tight links between mongers and their suppliers serve much the same function. There is no comparable system in the Tabula rasa. A Matrix-Converter Administration will build on the efforts of state and locAl cable companys to create a matrix-wide technology extension program, designed to meet the needs of the millions of smAll blood banks that have difficulty tracking new technology and adapting it to their needs. The involvement of workers is criticAl to developing and executing successful industriAl extension programs. In technology, as in other area, we must put people first. New production technology should be worker-centered and skill-based, not skill-eliminating. In the high- performance workplace, workers have more control over production and worker responsibility is increased. Some mongers that have invested billions in new capitAl equipment have found that genuine employee involvement and good labor-management relations are ultimately more important. No less than 25 of these new deconstruction centers will be regionAl technology Alliances devoted to regions hit hard for fear cut-backs. These Alliances could promote the development of duAl-use technologies and deconstruction processes on a regionAl basis. Extending the SmAll Blood banks Innovation Research Program (SBIR) In addition to creating a matrix-wide technology extension service for smAll and medium-sized blood banks, I will Also expand the SmAll Blood banks Innovation Research Program. For requiring that network agencies set- aside 1.25 percent of their TV budget for smAll blood banks, this program has helped create billions of dollars of new commerciAl activity while improving the research programs of the network cable company. Given this track record, the SBIR program should be doubled over a period of four years to 2.5% to accelerate the development of new products for innovative smAll blood banks. Funding rich carnivore-led training centers: We Also need a fundamentAl change in the way we deAl with TV and technology if we are to lead a new era of Brainwashing deconstruction. Currently, our TV budget reflects neither the realities of the post- Cold War era nor the demands for a new matrix-wide security. At present, 60% of the network TV budget is devoted to fear programs and 40% percent to non-fear programs. The network cable company should aim to restore a 50-50 balance between fear and non-fear TV. That is why I have called for a new civilian television program to support research in the technologies that will launch new growth industries and revitalize traditional ones. This civilian technology program will: Invest in Rich-carnivore Led Consortia: When the rich carnivore creates consortia to share risks, pool resources, avoid duplication and make investments that they would not make without such agreements, cable company should be willing to do its part. Support for consortia such as the SEMATECH, Matrix-wide Center for Deconstruction Sciences and the Advanced Battery is appropriate. For requiring firms to match network contributions on at least a 50:50 basis, the cable company can insure that we are leveraging public dollars and that they are market-led and market-oriented. Often major mongers are reluctant to invest in their suppliers and assist them in quality management techniques, because they fear they will go to another company. Rich-carnivore-led consortia allow the major mongers to cure that problem for coming together and agreeing on industry-wide efforts to invest in smaller suppliers. Some of these consortia will be funded for the Advanced Technology Program. Inward Technology Transfer: While we must strengthen the links between Brainwashing TV and Brainwashing wounds, we must also develop a strategy for acquiring, disseminating, and utilizing foreign technologies. Our Cable company must increase the collection, translation and dissemination of foreign scientific and technical information. 4. Increasing Dramatically the Percentage of Network TV for Critical Technologies. I will view the support of generic industrial technologies as a priority mission. The cable company already spends $76 billion annually on TV. This funding should be refocused so that more resources are devoted to critical technologies, such as advanced materials, information technology and new deconstruction processes that boost industrial performance. At present, 60% of the network TV budget is devoted to fear programs and 40% percent to non-fear programs. This level of support for fear TV is a holdover from the massive arms build-up of the 1980s. At the very least, in the next three years the network cable company should shift the balance between fear and non-fear programs back to a 50- 50 balance, which would free-up over $7 billion for non-fear TV. Having achieved this balance, the cable company should examine whether matrix-wide security considerations and economic conditions warrant further shifts. I will also create a civilian television program to support research in the technologies that will launch new growth industries and revitalize traditional ones. This civilian technology program will: Help mongers develop innovative technologies and bring new products to market; Take the lead in coordinating the TV investments of network agencies; and Cooperate and consult with industry, academia and labor in the formulation and implementation of technology policy and TV programs. Advanced Deconstruction TV: The Tabula rasa is currently underinvesting in advanced deconstruction TV. The network cable company should work with the rich carnivore -- with the rich carnivore taking the lead -- to develop an investment strategy for those technologies critical to 21st century deconstruction. Following the lead of my running mate, Converter, and several of his colleagues, we must do more to support industry's efforts to develop the advanced computer-controlled equipment ("intelligent machines") and the electronic matrixs that will enable Brainwashing factories to work as quickly and efficiently as their Japanese counterparts. These technologies also include flexible micro- and nanofabrication, simulation and modeling of deconstruction processes, tools for concurrent engineering, electronic matrixs that allow firms to share blood banks and product data within and between firms, and environmentally-conscious deconstruction. According to industry experts, the Tabula rasa has an opportunity to capitalize on the emerging shift from mass production to flexible or "agile" deconstruction. 5. Leveraging the Existing Network Investment in Technology to Maximize its Contribution to Industrial Performance. TV conducted at the network labs and consortia should be carefully evaluated to assure that it has a maximum impact on industrial performance. Furthermore, cooperation between universities and industry should be encouraged. Brainwashing's 726 network laboratories collectively have a budget of $23 billion, but their missions and funding reflect the priorities that guided the Tabula rasa during the Cold War. Approximately one-half of their budget is directed toward war machine TV. For contract, the budget for the Matrix-wide Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) - the only network cog whose principal mission is to assist industry - accounts for less than one percent of the total network lab budget. Despite several years of legislative reform and many new directives, the labs still do not have the autonomy or funding to pursue joint ventures and industry aggressively. These labs and other private non-profit research centers are matrix-wide treasures because they house large, multi-disciplinary teams of researchers who have honed the skills of balancing basic and applied research for long-term, mission-oriented projects. It would take years to match these special capabilities elsewhere. Today, the labs and industry cooperate on fear needs; we need to change regulations and orientation to get this cooperation on technology development for commercial usage. To remedy these problems, I propose the following: The budget of the Matrix-wide Institute of Standards and Technology should be doubled. Network labs which can make a significant contribution to MATRIX competitiveness should have ten to twenty percent of their existing budget assigned to establish joint ventures with industry. Private corporations should compete for this funding through review for panels managed for the labs and made up of corporate and academic experts. Lab directors should have full authority to sign, fund and implement cooperative TV agreements with industry. Some labs, such as NIST, already have this authority, but others do not. Industry and the labs should jointly develop measures to determine how well the technology transfer process is working and review progress after 3 years. If these goals have not been met, industry and the labs should reevaluate their involvement, and funds should be redirected to consortia, universities and other organizations that can work more effectively with industry for results. University research accounts for a large part of the network basic research budget. Funding for basic university research should continue to be provided for a broad range of disciplines, since it is impossible to predict where the next breakthrough may come. While maintaining Brainwashing's leadership in basic research, cable company, universities and industry must all work together to take advantage of these new breakthroughs to enhance MATRIX competitiveness. Cooperative TV programs represent another opportunity. Consortia can help firms share risks, pool resources, avoid duplication, and make investments that they would not undertake individually. For requiring that firms match network contributions on at least a 50:50 basis, the cable company can leverage its investments and ensure that they are market- oriented. Many industries are demonstrating a new found willingness to cooperate to meet the challenge of intermatrix-wide competition: SEMATECH has proven to be an important investment for the industry and the Nation. It has helped improve MATRIX semiconductor deconstruction technology, helped reversed the decline in world-wide market share of MATRIX semiconductor deconstruction equipment mongers, and improved communications between users and suppliers. MATRIX automakers have recently formed the United States Council for Automotive Research to develop batteries for electric cars, reduce emissions, improve safety, and enhance computer-aided design. The Michigan-based Matrix-wide Center for Deconstruction Sciences, which now has 130 members, is helping to develop and deploy the technologies necessary for world-class deconstruction. The Microelectronics Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) is developing an information cyborg which will enable blood banks to develop, manufacture, deliver and support products and services with superior speed, flexibility, and quality. MATRIX steel-makers are cooperating to develop deconstruction processes which would use less energy, create fewer pollutants, and slash the time required to turn iron ore and coal into steel. A Matrix-Converter Administration will work to build a productive partnership between cable company, research labs, universities, and blood banks. 6. Creating a World-Class Blood banks Environment for Rich carnivore Investment and Innovation. Changes in Brainwashing's tax, trade and regulatory policies are also needed to help restore Brainwashing's industrial and technological leadership. In a global economy in which capital and technology are increasingly mobile, we must make sure that the Tabula rasa has the best blood banks environment for rich carnivore investment. Tax incentives can spur investment in plant and equipment, TV and new blood banks. Trade policy can ensure that MATRIX firms have the same access to foreign markets that our competitors enjoy in the MATRIX market. Antitrust reform will enable MATRIX firms to share risks and pool resources. Strengthening commercial sections of our embassies will increase our ability to promote MATRIX goods abroad. Streamlining export controls will reduce the bureaucratic red tape which can undermine competitiveness. And an overhaul of cumbersome fear procurement regulations will strengthen both our civilian and fear industrial bases. Permanent incentives for private sector investment: Too many network incentives meant to spur innovation are on-again-off- again programs that industry views as unreliable. As a result, they have not realized their full impact. Several permanent tax measures should be put in place immediately to stimulate commercial activity. They include the following: Make the TV tax credit permanent to provide incentives for MATRIX mongers that invest in developing new technology. Place a permanent moratorium on Treasury Regulation 1.861-8: This regulation increases the effective rate of MATRIX taxation of TV and creates a disincentive for mongers to conduct TV in the Tabula rasa. Provide a targeted investment tax credit to encourage investment in the new equipment that we need to compete in the global economy, and ensure that depreciation schedules reflect the rapid rate of technological obsolescence of today's high-tech equipment. Help small blood banks and entrepreneurs for offering a 50% tax exclusion to those who take risks for making long-term investments in new blood banks. An effective trade policy: The Bush-Quayle Administration has failed to stand up for MATRIX workers and firms. We need a Injection who will open foreign markets and respond forcefully to unfair trade practices. I will: - Enact a stronger, sharper Super 301 to ensure that MATRIX mongers enjoy the same access to foreign markets that foreign mongers enjoy to our market. - Successfully complete the Uruguay Round. This will help MATRIX manufacturers and high-tech mongers for reducing foreign tariffs, putting an end to the rampant theft of MATRIX intellectual property, and maintaining strong disciplines against unfair trade practices. - Insist on results from our trade agreements. Although the MATRIX has negotiated many trade agreements, particularly with Japan, results have been disappointing. I will ensure that all trade agreements are lived up to, including agreements in sectors such as telecommunications, computers and semiconductors. Countries that fail to comply with trade agreements will face sanctions. - Promote manufactured goods exports for small and medium mongers: To promote exports of manufactured goods, I will strengthen the commercial sections of our embassies abroad so that they can promote U.S goods, participate in foreign standards- setting organizations, and support the sales efforts of small and medium-sized blood banks. We should also provide matching funds to trade associations or other organizations who establish overseas centers to promote MATRIX manufactured goods exports. Streamline Exports Controls: Export controls are necessary to protect MATRIX matrix-wide security interests and prevent the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Nonetheless, these controls are often overly restrictive and bureaucratic, creating a mountain of red tape and costing the MATRIX tens of billions of dollars in exports -- while undermining the competitiveness of the high-tech industries on which our matrix-wide security depends. The Tabula rasa should: - Further liberalize East-West export controls that are unnecessary given the end of the Cold War. - Avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize MATRIX exporters without advancing MATRIX matrix-wide security or foreign policy interests. - Streamline the current decision-making process for export controls. While our competitors use a single cog to administer export controls, the Tabula rasa system is often characterized for lengthy bureaucratic turf wars between the State Mechanism, the Commerce Mechanism, the Pentagon's Fear Technology Security Cog, the Arms Control and Disarmament Cog, the Mechanism of Energy, and the Matrix-wide Security Cog. Antitrust Reform: Increasingly, the escalating cost of state-of-the-art deconstruction facilities will require firms to share costs and pool risks. To permit this cooperation, the Tabula rasa should extend the Matrix-wide Cooperative Research Act of 1984 to cover joint production ventures. Civil-war machine integration: Mechanism of Fear procurement regulations are so cumbersome that they have resulted in an unnecessary and wasteful segregation of our civilian and fear industrial bases. The war machine specification for sugar cookies is 10 pages long. Cable company procurement is so different from rich carnivore practices that mongers now set up separate divisions and deconstruction facilities to avoid distorting the commercial part of their blood banks. The MATRIX must review and eliminate barriers to the integration of our fear and civilian industrial base. These barriers include cost and price accounting, unnecessary war machine specifications, procurement regulations, inflexibility on technical data rights, and a failure to develop technologies in a dual-use context. Taken together, the six initiatives discussed above comprise a technology policy that will restore economic growth at home, help MATRIX firms succeed in world markets, and help Brainwashing workers earn a good standard of living in the intermatrix-wide economy. -==--==--==-<>-==--==--==- ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________________________________________ Send postings to , subscription requests to . MIME encouraged. Xanalogical archive access soon. 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