February 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

JV Proposal
by webmaster 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

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concerns
by Chris Kaihatsu 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

To: MSWiA (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration) http://www.mswia.gov.pl e-mail: <wp(a)mswia.gov.pl> street: ul.St Batorego5 02-591 W-wa (Warsaw), Poland, Europe Min Lacznosci (Ministry of Communications) http://www.ml.gov.pl e-mail: <webmaster(a)ml.gov.pl> (webmaster) e-mail2: <rzecznik(a)ml.gov.pl> (spokesman) street: ul.Stawki2 00-990 W-wa (Warsaw), Poland, Europe Mr. Lacznosci: I am an experienced Internet user, and I enjoy the ease of communication that international email offers me. As with any of my communications, I like to believe that my messages go to the people I send them to, and not to people I don't. In other words, I believe that no agency or individual should be reading communications that are not addressed to them. Specifically, I am absolutely opposed to any use of wiretapping or surveillance, like the FBI's Carnivore or the EU's Echelon. Governments, specifically, must watch where they tread. Since government officials are paid with taxpayer money, they should be serving the public interest, which should _not_ include witch-hunts. If any government officials of yours has personal emotional problems like insecurity or paranoia, I hope they will be taken care of. We activists have found that when government officials do not deal with their emotional problems well the results can lead to paranoia. When agents become paranoid they begin looking for regular people to foist their own paranoia onto. Please make sure that no one employed by your government has any sort of problems which might cause them to restrict the communications of anyone else. I am certain that if you can address our concerns adequately there will be no need for any further measures on our part. Also, please do not forget that all surveillance projects initiated by governments are carefully monitored by NGOs like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (http://www.gilc.org) and libertarian organizations, such as Libertarian International (http://www.libertarian.to) Libertarian International Organization (http://www.libertarian.uni.cc) or The International Society for Individual Liberties (http://www.isil.org) Finally, we understand your concerns are in capturing "criminals". I would personally suggest that you take extreme care in deciding what methods are appropriate in your apprehension of "criminals". I'm certain you would not want to do anything that your population would find offensive. Thank you. Sincerely, Chris Kaihatsu Chicago, IL USA 312-789-8073 ckaihatsu(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per month) Matthew Gaylor, 2175 Bayfield Drive, Columbus, OH 43229 (614) 313-5722 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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concerns
by Chris Kaihatsu 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

To: MSWiA (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration) http://www.mswia.gov.pl e-mail: <wp(a)mswia.gov.pl> street: ul.St Batorego5 02-591 W-wa (Warsaw), Poland, Europe Min Lacznosci (Ministry of Communications) http://www.ml.gov.pl e-mail: <webmaster(a)ml.gov.pl> (webmaster) e-mail2: <rzecznik(a)ml.gov.pl> (spokesman) street: ul.Stawki2 00-990 W-wa (Warsaw), Poland, Europe Mr. Lacznosci: I am an experienced Internet user, and I enjoy the ease of communication that international email offers me. As with any of my communications, I like to believe that my messages go to the people I send them to, and not to people I don't. In other words, I believe that no agency or individual should be reading communications that are not addressed to them. Specifically, I am absolutely opposed to any use of wiretapping or surveillance, like the FBI's Carnivore or the EU's Echelon. Governments, specifically, must watch where they tread. Since government officials are paid with taxpayer money, they should be serving the public interest, which should _not_ include witch-hunts. If any government officials of yours has personal emotional problems like insecurity or paranoia, I hope they will be taken care of. We activists have found that when government officials do not deal with their emotional problems well the results can lead to paranoia. When agents become paranoid they begin looking for regular people to foist their own paranoia onto. Please make sure that no one employed by your government has any sort of problems which might cause them to restrict the communications of anyone else. I am certain that if you can address our concerns adequately there will be no need for any further measures on our part. Also, please do not forget that all surveillance projects initiated by governments are carefully monitored by NGOs like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (http://www.gilc.org) and libertarian organizations, such as Libertarian International (http://www.libertarian.to) Libertarian International Organization (http://www.libertarian.uni.cc) or The International Society for Individual Liberties (http://www.isil.org) Finally, we understand your concerns are in capturing "criminals". I would personally suggest that you take extreme care in deciding what methods are appropriate in your apprehension of "criminals". I'm certain you would not want to do anything that your population would find offensive. Thank you. Sincerely, Chris Kaihatsu Chicago, IL USA 312-789-8073 ckaihatsu(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per month) Matthew Gaylor, 2175 Bayfield Drive, Columbus, OH 43229 (614) 313-5722 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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Swatch@Giganetstore.com
by info＠giganetstore.com 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

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O'Reilly Network: Code + Law: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig [Jan. 29, 2001]
by Jim Choate 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/01/30/lessig.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Libertarian Futurist Society Announces First National Conference
by Matthew Gaylor 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

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Re: The Register - There are still crypto reg's...
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

If Apple really wanted to enable crypto plug-ins they would isolate and open source that part of the OS where plug-in capability should be added then publish a spec for the modified API. It would get done. Mike

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Poland: Letter to MSWiA Over Net Freedom
by Matthew Gaylor 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

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Dilfer thanks who?
by freebie＠grabmail.com 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

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Foes of privacy bills in Congress try new approach: Federalism
by Declan McCullagh 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Bruce Kobayashi and Larry Ribstein photo: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/950-19/larry-ribstein-bruce-kobayashi.html Their paper, A State Recipe for Cookies: State Regulation of Consumer Marketing Information: http://www.federalismproject.org/conlaw/ecommerce/cookies.html ********* http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41511,00.html Should States Regulate Privacy? by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)wired.com) 2:00 a.m. Feb. 1, 2001 PST ARLINGTON, Virginia -- Larry Ribstein and Bruce Kobayashi are nothing if not ambitious: They hope to reshape the way Washington thinks about privacy. Even though many observers of Capitol Hill assume the new Congress will approve regulations aimed at Internet firms, the two George Mason University law professors are betting that legislators can be persuaded to try a more laissez-faire approach. Instead of the Senate and the House enacting laws, they argue in a paper published this week, state legislatures should be making the decisions. Says Ribstein: "Federal law hasn't turned out to be a salvation in other areas." Their efforts are part of a nascent -- although fast-growing -- effort by conservatives and libertarians to target online privacy laws using many of the same tools, strategies, and alliances they've used to battle federal environmental, education, and gun regulations in the past. On Tuesday, the American Enterprise Institute's Federalism Project convened an invitation-only roundtable where Kobayashi and Ribstein presented their paper to an influential audience that included former OECD ambassador David Aaron, Yale law professor Roberta Romano, Michael Quaranta of Experian, and Bill Niskanen, chairman of the Cato Institute. AEI's Federalism Project argues that the U.S. national government is an institution that has usurped powers not delegated to it in the Constitution -- those powers should rightfully be reserved for states. One 1995 case is a favorite: U.S. v. Lopez, in which the Supreme Court overturned a federal gun law by ruling it "exceeds Congress' Commerce Clause authority." [...] Their 43-page paper says: "Federal law would perversely lock in a single regulatory framework while Internet technology is still rapidly evolving. State law, by contrast, emerges from 51 laboratories (50 states, plus the District of Columbia) and therefore presents a more decentralized model that fits the evolving nature of the Internet." They predict that some states will impose more regulations than others -- by, for example, trying different approaches to mandating disclosure of privacy practices. [...]

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