July 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

FC: FBI arrests Russian hacker visiting U.S. for alleged DMCA breach (fwd)
by Jei 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:57:48 -0400 From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)politechbot.com Subject: FC: FBI arrests Russian hacker visiting U.S. for alleged DMCA breach http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45298,00.html Russian Adobe Hacker Busted By Declan McCullagh (declan(a)wired.com) 7:04 a.m. July 17, 2001 PDT LAS VEGAS -- FBI agents have arrested a Russian programmer for giving away software that removes the restrictions on encrypted Adobe Acrobat files. Dmitry Sklyarov, a lead programmer for Russian software company ElcomSoft, was visiting the United States for the annual Defcon hacker convention, where he gave a talk on the often-flawed security of e-books. This would be the second known prosecution under the criminal sections of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, (DMCA) which took effect last year and makes it a crime to "manufacture" products that circumvent copy protection safeguards. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Thought-A-Day
by Fountain Of Inspiration 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

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burning down the house (russian adobe rev-eng jailed)
by Subcommander Bob 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

At 10:18 AM 7/17/01 -0700, Black Unicorn wrote: >Ok. That's pretty much my limit. Concise understatement... >Where can reverse engineering be >conducted in the world anymore without felonies being leveled? Does anyone >care? We care intensely, we are still reeling. Anonymously coded Adobe e-book browser plug-in, anyone? How do you picket a virtual store?

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first net advert for hitman arrested (fwiw)
by Al Qaeda 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

from Moscow Times 4 Jul 01 via http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=1532 Moscow police have arrested a contract killer who advertised his services via the Internet in the first such detention in Russia, Itar-Tass reported Tuesday. The Moscow police department for fighting high-technology crimes spotted the advertisement in May, department chief Dmitry Chepchugov was quoted as saying. Moscow agents disguised as potential clients corresponded with the alleged hit man, and when they established that he resided in Samara, about 900 kilometers southeast of Moscow, they alerted local police. The man, whose name was not disclosed, was handcuffed after undercover agents paid him several thousands of dollars and heard him stating the date of the assassination they pretended to be asking for, Chepchugov said. He added that the Internet was becoming increasingly popular with Russian criminals for financial frauds. He said law enforcement agencies of Russia and the United States were jointly investigating a case in which Russians allegedly hacked U.S. credit card information. The hacker group stole some $400 million from U.S. credit card holders just over the past few months, the officer said. Russian hackers have been involved in several high-profile computer- related crimes worldwide. Hitman Busted After Advertising on Internet

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General Ashcroft make his move
by George＠Orwellian.Org 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

General Ashcroft has announce the Second Amendment applies to individuals. This will apparently affect the case of a Tim Emerson, a Texas physician accused of violating a 1994 law barring people under restraining orders from having guns. The DOJ is currently appealing the case claiming the Second Amendment does not extend to an individual the right to guns. http://www.bradycampaign.org has filed an ethics complaint against Ashcroft. WWW illiterate: http://usdoj.gov doesn't work.

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violent antitax protest/riot in US
by David Honig 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

Friday July 13 6:33 AM ET Anti-Tax Protests at Tenn. Capitol By KARIN MILLER, Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Protesters hurled rocks through Capitol windows, chanted ``no new tax!'' and banged on the locked doors of the Senate chamber where Tennessee lawmakers were debating the creation of a state income tax. The tax plan had died before the protesters arrived Thursday, but when word spread that lawmakers had passed a no-tax budget, cheers went up among the hundreds of protesters. ``The people are passionate when they say, 'no income tax','' said Steve Gill, a Nashville radio talk show host who had called on tax opponents to swarm the Capitol. Anti-tax protests have been frequent the past three years as lawmakers considered implementing a state income tax, but the protests had always been peaceful - until Thursday. Within hours of hearing that the Legislature was considering a last-minute income tax plan, protesters swarmed into the area, honking car horns, waving signs reading ``Tax Revolt!'' and bringing traffic outside the Capitol to a standstill. The rock-throwers busted several windows, including one in the governor's office. State troopers escorted lawmakers in the halls and locked the doors to the Capitol. One state employee trying to lock a side door was injured as the weight of the crowd pushed against him. No arrests were made and no other injuries were reported. ``I appreciate the right of all Americans to free speech and peaceful protest. I do not, however, approve of those who advocate violence and I regret that occurred at the Capitol,'' Gov. Don Sundquist said in a statement. Sundquist has said he would veto any budget that didn't include a new revenue plan. The budget the Legislature passed doesn't include the 3.5 percent income tax lawmakers had discussed. It instead cuts $339 million from the governor's $19.9 billion spending plan, requires state agencies to save an additional $100 million, and uses $560 million in tobacco settlement money - four years worth - to balance the budget. Sundquist wouldn't say if he would sign it. Tennessee is one of nine states without a broad-based income tax, but it has one of the highest sales tax rates at 6 percent, with local governments adding up to 2.75 percent. Sen. Bob Rochelle, a Democratic proponent of a state income tax, had argued that the sales tax could be reduced if an income tax was implemented. ``The day will come when we won't mistreat our citizens any more with that tax,'' he said. Republican Sen. David Fowler, an opponent of the income tax, said negotiations had already broken down by the time most of the protesters arrived. One proposal discussed would have put plans for an income tax to a statewide vote. Fowler said the protest may have ``effectively killed'' that as an option. ``I don't know if they knew that's what they were doing, but that's what they were doing,'' Fowler said. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010713/us/tennessee_capitol_protest_8.html

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by Fountain Of Inspiration 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

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Bush plans new approach to cyber-protection
by Jim Choate 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/07/18/technology.security.ap/index.ht… James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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problem no. 1
by Subcommander Bob 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

At 12:20 AM 7/18/01 -0700, A. Melon wrote: >Problem number one is that the mail from a terrorist group will not be >labeled as such. I highly doubt you're going to find >"BinLaden036(a)yahoo.com". That means that using Carnivore as a set wiretap >will be difficult. It may happen that the FBI only knows that somewhere on >a network, there may be a terrorist. Problem number one is folks like you who accept the state denigration 'terrorist' without thinking.

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remove my email from mailing list
by Oliver7870＠aol.com 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

remove my email from mailing list

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