September 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: membership
by Larry Levinson 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

Hi. I'm trying to get information on NAMBLA and found your post on a random search. I'm having trouble locating NAMBLA. The website seems to have been stopped. I've written to someone else (a former secretary of the group) but thought I'd try you as well. Some close friends suggested it as a good place to join, chat and make friends with similar interests. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Larry _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your … [View More]

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CDR: Need Any Golf Balls ??
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08 Sep '00

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CDR: Need Any Golf Balls ??
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08 Sep '00

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07 Sep '00

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CDR: Re: BayFF Celebrates RSA Patent Expiration 9/11 7:30pm SFO Hyatt
by not_so_anony mous 07 Sep '00

07 Sep '00

The Shmoo Group is maintaining a list of patent expiry parties http://www.shmoo.com/rsa/ I don't see a Seattle party on the list. You should throw one :-) :mous: _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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CDR: BayFF Celebrates RSA Patent Expiration 9/11 7:30pm SFO Hyatt
by Bill Stewart 07 Sep '00

07 Sep '00

======================================= Media Advisory BayFF Celebrates RSA Patent Expiration Whit Diffie and Dave Del Torto Speak of RSA's Past and Future WHO: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Whit Diffie, Dave Del Torto and music by UKUSA from VirtualRecordings.com WHAT: `BayFF' Meeting on RSA Patent Expiration WHEN: Monday September 11th, 2000 at 7:30PM WHERE: Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport (650) 347-1234 Directions are forthcoming on the EFF website: www.eff.org In honor of its … [View More]10th Anniversary of defending civil liberties online, EFF presents a series of monthly meetings to address important issues where technology and policy collide. These meetings, entitled "BayFF," kicked off on July 10th and will continue throughout the year. The upcoming BayFF features famed cryptographer Whitfield Diffie and MEconomy's Master of Secrets, Dave Del Torto. They will help us celebrate the RSA patent's expiration on September 20th, 2000. How will these changes effect the public at large? What are the benefits? Are there any drawbacks? Whitfield Diffie, who holds the position of Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography, for which he was awarded a Doctorate in Technical Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1992. Diffie received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. For a dozen years prior to assuming his present position in 1991, Diffie was Manager of Secure Systems Research for Northern Telecom, functioning as the center of expertise in advanced security technologies throughout the corporation. Since 1993, Diffie has worked largely in public policy, in the area of cryptography. Dave Del Torto's career in Internet privacy and security started in the late 1980s at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was one of the original "Cypherpunks." He joined Pretty Good Privacy Inc. (PGP) as a founding employee in 1996, and in 1997 was part of the four-man team that published the entire PGP source code in 13 paper volumes, which resulted in the first legal international PGP freeware (exports of 128-bit crypto have since been greatly deregulated). He currently serves as the Executive Director of the CryptoRights Foundation (a human rights security organization) and is the Chief Security Officer of MEconomy, Inc., a privacy infomediary company based in San Francisco. **** You can subscribe to EFF's mailing list to receive the regular BayFF annoucements. To subscribe, email <majordomo(a)eff.org> and put this in the text (not the subject line): subscribe BayFF. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most-linked-to Web sites in the world. Contact: John Marttila Administrative Assistant Electronic Frontier Foundation 415-436-9333 ex 107 <<<< >>>> ====================== Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639 [View Less]

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CDR: echelon time-line
by Julian Assange 07 Sep '00

07 Sep '00

I'm developing an echelon `in the news' and `on-the-net' time-line for the past 30 years. Not comprehensive, but 30 or so most important rumours leaks/news-stories. Has anyone else done this? Does anyone have personal suggestions as to the most significant events? Cheers, Julian.

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CDR: Federal agencies share taxpayer info from Web sites
by An Metet 07 Sep '00

07 Sep '00

By LANCE GAY Scripps Howard News Service September 07, 2000 WASHINGTON - At least four federal agencies are sharing taxpayer data they are gathering from Internet visitors to government Web sites with trade organizations, retailers or other outside parties, congressional investigators say. In a survey of online-privacy protections at government-run Web sites, the General Accounting Office found that 23 of 70 agencies surveyed have disclosed personal information gathered from Web sites to … [View More]third parties, mostly other government agencies. But at least four agencies were found sharing information with private entities. The GAO is a congressional unit that audits federal programs. Some privacy advocates said the findings show the need to update a 1974 Privacy Act, which forbids government agencies from sharing with outsiders information they collect from taxpayers, but was drafted before computers were widely used. "It's time to strengthen this important law for the Internet age,'' said Ari Schwartz, policy analyst with the Center for Democracy and Technology. Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the report clearly shows the White House isn't effectively enforcing Privacy Act provisions on executive branch agencies. "It's a surprisingly good law,'' Rotenberg said. "I think the big issue here is oversight and enforcement of the Privacy Act." The GAO investigation was launched a year ago on a request by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., to find out how government agencies are handling privacy issues on their Web sites. Lieberman has spearheaded efforts on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee to oversee government use of the Internet to provide information to taxpayers. GAO investigators said many of the privacy problems with government Web sites they uncovered could be addressed by the White House Office of Management and Budget issuing more specific guidelines on what information government agencies can release. Office of Management and Budget guidelines forbid dissemination of "substantial" personal information, but they don't tell agencies what that means, or "whether such information as Social Security numbers and credit card numbers qualify as substantial personal information," the GAO said. In its survey of 70 government agencies, congressional investigators classified "substantial" personal information as being a person's name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, Social Security number or credit card numbers. The investigation found 23 agencies shared information with other government agencies, and four said they share information with private-sector entities. The agencies were not named. The outside parties included trade organizations, bilateral development banks, product manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Sally Katzen, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, said the GAO report didn't reflect considerable progress the Clinton administration has made in persuading government agencies to pay attention to privacy issues. Web sites run by the White House itself have been embroiled in privacy concerns. In June, Scripps Howard News Service reported that Internet sites run by the White House drug czar's office were secretly putting "cookie" programs in the computers of visitors to track what they were doing on the site. Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew ordered drug czar Barry McCaffrey to turn off the cookie machine, and issued a governmentwide directive stating that cookies programs can only be used in rare cases, and only if their use is approved by the agency's director. The GAO survey found seven agencies used cookies, which are small software programs inserted in a visitor's computer. Cookies programs are used by advertising firms to track Internet users' activities, and can be combined with other data to compile profiles of individual Internet users. On the Net: GAO is at htpp://www.gao.gov (Lance Gay is a reporter for Scripps Howard News Service.) J [View Less]

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CDR: Re: Domestic surveillance: infilatration
by A. Melon 07 Sep '00

07 Sep '00

>State police infiltrated protest groups, documents Yes, I always ask myself which 4 cpunks are pigs at the physical meetings. Hmmm, I guess those that never missed one ? Is there a test ?

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CDR: Domestic surveillance: infilatration
by A. Melon 07 Sep '00

07 Sep '00

State police infiltrated protest groups, documents show Search-warrant affidavits reveal an undercover operation aimed at activists in Philadelphia for the GOP convention. By Linda K. Harris,, Craig R. McCoy and Thomas Ginsberg INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS State police undercover agents posing as demonstrators infiltrated activist groups planning the protests at the Republican National … [View More]Convention, search-warrant documents made public yesterday showed. The undercover operation was detailed in legal documents filed Aug. 1 by Philadelphia police seeking search warrants for a raid that day on a so-called "puppet warehouse" at 4100 Haverford Ave. in West Philadelphia. The documents were under a court seal until yesterday. About 75 people were arrested in the raid at the warehouse. The infiltration was immediately condemned yesterday by the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the city public defenders office. "Its worse than sleazeball," said Stefan Presser, the ACLUs legal director. "This is an outrage." Presser and other critics said dissenters needed the right to rally and to organize without fear that police were spying on them. They said they feared that police undercover officers could cross the line from intelligence-gatherers to provocateurs. "The legality and propriety of this potentially unconstitutional police conduct will certainly be an issue at the time of trial in all of these cases," said Bradley Bridge, a senior lawyer with the defenders office. During the convention, Police Commissioner John F. Timoney repeatedly denied that police had engaged in infiltration. "We had not infiltrated any group," he said the day after police raided the warehouse that had become one of several gathering spots for demonstrators during the convention. A spokeswoman for the commissioner said yesterday that he would have no comment. Lt. Susan Slawson, commander of the police public-affairs unit, said the commissioner could not talk because "its in litigation," a reference to a civil suit filed by demonstrators challenging their arrests during the protests. The use of state police as the undercover operatives took place as the city itself was restricted from using its own officers for such infiltration under a long-standing mayoral directive. The directive says the police may not infiltrate protest groups without the permission of the mayor, the managing director, and the police commissioner. Mayor Street and City Solicitor Kenneth Trujillo declined comment yesterday. In seeking search warrants, police cited the work of the undercover operatives and detailed the intelligence gathered as the convention approached. The information is sketched out in affidavits of probable cause seeking warrants to search the warehouse, a U-Haul van, another van, and a pickup that police deemed suspicious. "This investigation is utilizing several Pennsylvania state troopers in an undercover capacity that have infiltrated several of the activist groups planning to commit numerous illegal direct actions," said one affidavit, signed by Detective William Egenlauf of the Philadelphia Police Department. It says the state police undercover operatives arrived at the warehouse on July 27, four days before the convention began. Once there, the agents assisted "in the construction of props to be used during protests," the affidavit says. It says agents observed demonstrators building street barriers and "lock boxes," devices used by protesters to lock arms together when blocking streets. The papers say they overheard discussions that indicated protesters planned on "using the puppets . . . as blockades." The operatives also reported that "persons indicated they would be throwing pies, bottles and cardboard boxes filled with water at the police," the affidavits stated. Timoney held a news conference after the convention to display items seized during the raid, including two massive slingshots and chains wrapped in kerosene-soaked rags. Such devices were not used during the protests. Police also displayed seized "lock boxes." Protesters have claimed the facility was nothing more than an art studio to fashion the puppets, floats and other props that were a hallmark of the demonstrations. Demonstrators also said their protests would be nonviolent, with illegal actions limited to the blockading of streets. Their lawyers have complained that numerous people were arrested in the warehouse without any proof they had any connection to illegal items. A key subject of controversy has been the raid on the warehouse. The request for the search warrants for the warehouse and lengthy affidavits detailing police intelligence-gathering was made yesterday, a month after Municipal Court President Judge Louis J. Presenza approved the searches. At the request of the District Attorneys Office, the warrants were sealed - barred from public inspection - for a month as soon as they were issued. The legal request for the warrants maintained that premature "disclosure of this affidavit could endanger the lives" of the undercover operatives. The affidavits cite sweeping police intelligence-gathering before the convention. This included monitoring of unspecified "electronic messages" sent among demonstrators, an apparent reference to police scrutiny of Web sites and electronic mailing lists. The police documents identified what investigators viewed as the key protest groups and their goals. Funds for one group "allegedly originate with Communist and leftist parties and from sympathetic trade unions" or from "the former Soviet-allied World Federation of Trade Unions," according to the affidavits. The affidavits go on to identify a handful of leaders of the various groups. Among those cited by name are John Sellers and Kate Sorensen, who were later arrested during demonstrations in Center City. The two were held in jail for days in lieu of $1 million bail - a sum critics said was extraordinary. In recent interviews after their release from jail, people who were inside the warehouse said that they had suspected early on that four undercover officers were working among them. Four men - known as Tim, Harry, George and Ryan - showed up together at 41st and Haverford about a week before the convention, introducing themselves as union carpenters from Wilkes-Barre who built stages, several demonstrators said. They were big, burly men who were older than most of the people working in the warehouse. They did not seem particularly political or well-informed, according to demonstrators. All four, however, were considered hard workers. Soliman Lawrence, 20, of Tallahassee, Fla., worked closely with the four on a massive satirical float built for a protest march. "They gained our trust," Lawrence said. "The fact that we didnt know them very well wasnt a big deal. "I remember thinking to myself, Why does everyone who looks like that have to be a cop? " Lawrence said. "I didnt like that I thought like that." [View Less]

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