August 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

[OT] DMCA loop hole
by James Simmons 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Sorry this is off topic but this was way to good :-) Virus writers can use the DMCA in a perverse way. Because computer viruses are programs, they can be copyrighted just like a book, song, or movie. If a virus writer were to use encryption to hide the code of a virus, an anti-virus company could be forbidden by the DMCA to see how the virus works without first getting the permission of the virus writer. If they didn't, a virus writer could sue the anti-virus company under the DMCA! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ Alexander Viro on linux-kernel ] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- "It's not brave, if you're not scared."

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RE: DMCA loop hole
by Jonathan Wienke 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody seriously needs to make a test case out of this idea. I can just see the headline: "EvilHackerTerrorist sues Symantec over unlawful circumvention of the content protection scheme used by his copyrighted ScrewTheDMCA virus!" - ----- Forwarded message from James Simmons <jsimmons(a)transvirtual.com> -----

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BUSINESS PROPOSAL
by fidelis aloye 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

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01 Aug '01

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New Branche of Medicine
by Medicine Horizons 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

MEDICINE HORIZONS - newsletter Integration of Ancient Wisdom and Modern Scientific Technologies Leading to a New Branch of Medicine No innovation has gained such a fast foothold and recognition among medical experts as the utilisation of the natural laws of harmony. When one considers that the term Medical Resonance Therapy Music was only coined 14 years ago, and then looks at the present level of documentation on research and developments in this new branch of medicine, and the statements of leading medical experts from many fields such as hormone research, gynaecology, paediatrics, dermatology, research into headaches, intensive care medicine etc. right up to international recognition as the most successful "anti-stress remedy in the world" at the International Conference "Society, Stress and Health" of the World Health Organisation (WHO), then it is also worthwhile examining the causes for such enormous medical success more closely. Interesting links: Medical Resonance Therapy Music http://www.medicalresonancetherapymusic.com Scientific Music Therapy - Research http://www.scientificmusictherapy.com Music as Data Carrier of the Laws of Harmony Nature´s Laws of Harmony in the Microcosm of Music Chronobiological Aspects of Music Physiology International Experts http://www.digipharm.com Micro Music Laboratories http://www.micromusiclaboratories.com MEDICINE HORIZONS http://www.medicinehorizons.com p.s.: this message was sent to you in the genuine belief that it is of professional interest to you. If you do not want to receive further information please simply send us an email: mailto:remove@medicinehorizons.com

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BUSINESS PROPOSAL
by fidelis aloye 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

> FROM: MR.FIDELIS ALOYE. > TEL: 234 1 759 1549; FAX: 234 1 759 0379. > E-MAIL:aloyede@yahoo.com > > > BUSINESS PROPOSAL > > ATTN: PRESIDENT/CEO, > > My name is FIDELIS ALOYE, a member of the > Presidential > Task Force on Oil Spillage Clean-up. Early last year > there was a major oil spillage in the Niger Delta > Region of Nigeria which rendered over 70% of the > communities homeless.The contract was handled by a > foreign firm but because of the huge monetary profit > we envisaged we decided to over-invoice the contract > sum. > > Now the contract has been completed and the original > contractor has since been paid,but the contract > balance of US$38 million,which resulted from the > over > invoiced contract sum that has been left in a > suspense > account with the CENTRAL BANK of NIGERIA,is what me > and my partners are planning to take out of the > country for ourselves.The problem is as government > officials,we are not suppose to own fat bank > accounts,talk less of having foreign ones. > > To this end, we are soliciting your assistance as a > foreign partner who can assist us and receive this > amount into your account. We are ready to share this > money with you on the basis of participation. We > also > have plans to invest part of this money in any > viable > business in your country under your care,as we are > nearing our retirement age. > > In any case, I received a reference of > you/organization from the Nigeria Chambers of > Commerce > and Industry �Foreign Trade Division� as a reputable > organ that can assist us on this transaction. Please > if you accept my proposal do not hesitate to send me > a > fax on 234 1 759 0379 or send me an e-mail on: > aloyede(a)yahoo.com , so that I can provide you with > the basic procedures for the release of the fund. > > It does not matter whether you or your company does > contract project of the nature described here, the > assumption is that you won a major contract and > subcontracted it to another company, more often than > not, big trading companies or individuals of > unrelated > field win major contracts here in Nigeria and > subcontracts same to more specialized firms for > execution. > > BENEFIT: For providing the account where we shall > remit this money, you will be entitled to 25% of the > entire funds, 70% will be for me and my > partners,while > 5% has been set aside to cover any expenses that may > be incurred by both parties during this transaction, > both local and international. > > Please I enjoin you to handle this transaction with > utmost degree of maturity and confidentiality > because > I am still in active government service with the > �NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION�. If I > receive your response on time, this whole > transaction > could be accomplished within the shortest possible > time based on your interest and determination,since > the money is already in transit. > > Please, try to call me up to confirm the receipt of > your fax or e-mail.The lines may be busy,but keep > trying till you get through. > > Yours faithfully, > > MR. FIDELIS ALOYE (MNIM). > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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Increase business with wealthy Russian clients
by MOSCOW WORKSHOPS 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

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NYT: Organized Crime Case Raises Privacy Issues
by An Metet 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

By JOHN SCHWARTZ icodemo S. Scarfo Jr. might seem an unlikely champion of civil liberties in the high-tech age. Mr. Scarfo, the son of the jailed mob boss "Little Nicky" Scarfo, has been awaiting trial on charges of running gambling and loan sharking operations for the Gambino crime family. But like so many businessmen today, Mr. Scarfo kept his data on his personal computer; and like many other businessmen, he encrypted the sensitive stuff to protect it from prying eyes. Today, a federal judge in Newark will hear defense motions to throw out evidence gathered by a controversial new law enforcement technology: a system that recorded every keystroke typed on Mr. Scarfo's computer, including the password that investigators used to unscramble Mr. Scarfo's files. That wrinkle in the case makes the United States v. Scarfo the latest battleground in a growing struggle to determine the proper balance between the government's ability to conduct surveillance and a citizen's right to privacy. "It raises a whole issue of invasive law enforcement technology that really hasn't been considered by the courts yet," said David L. Sobel, who has followed the case closely as the general counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. The Scarfo case comes at a time of rising concern about the government's power to snoop. In other cases, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's use of an Internet wiretap system initially known as Carnivore ignited opposition from privacy advocates and a number of Republican lawmakers, who said the technology sampled the communications of many customers of an Internet provider, not just the suspects. Similarly, public uproar accompanied the announcement that Tampa had installed surveillance cameras with facial recognition technology to spot criminal suspects in the city's Ybor entertainment district. The courts are paying attention. The Supreme Court, in a case known as Kyllo v. the United States, which was decided in June, restricted the ability of police to use thermal imaging cameras to look inside houses without a search warrant. In the majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the court was confronting a fundamental question about the Fourth Amendment: "what limits there are upon this power of technology to shrink the realm of guaranteed privacy." When the police raided Mr. Scarfo's business, Merchant Services of Essex County in Belleville, N.J., in January 1999, they found a computer and copied the contents of its hard drive. But investigators could not read one file on the machine, because it had been encrypted using a common program, PGP, which stands for Pretty Good Privacy. Encryption has become an essential part of doing business on the Internet for companies and consumers alike. And the rising use of encryption technology has long been a concern of the F.B.I., which has said the technology could be devastating to criminal investigations. The Scarfo case shows one way the F.B.I. has tried to address the problem. Agents went back into Mr. Scarfo's business under court order and surreptitiously installed what court papers identify only as a "key logger system" on the target PC. The F.B.I. would not say whether the system was a hardware device or purely software, or give any details about how it worked, except to say that it recorded every keystroke entered into the machine. Agents returned to Mr. Scarfo's business over the following months to retrieve data recorded by the system. Ultimately, the logger captured a password, nds09813-050. Mr. Scarfo had apparently changed his password, however, because it did not decrypt the original file. But investigators found new versions of the file on floppy disks in Mr. Scarfo's home, and the password worked to unscramble the file, which prosecutors say contained accounts of gambling and loan activities. (The annual interest rate on the loans, as calculated by the F.B.I., was 152 percent.) In briefs presented to Judge Nicholas H. Politan of United States District Court, who will preside over today's hearing, Mr. Scarfo and his lawyers assert that any evidence collected with the help of the keyboard logger should be thrown out because the technology was not used in ways that passed Constitutional muster. They say that because the keyboard logger collected everything Mr. Scarfo typed, the court order permitting its use violated longstanding constitutional rules that search warrants and evidence collection should be as narrow as possible. They also assert that the technology is like a wiretap, and that therefore the relatively difficult process of obtaining an electronic communications wiretap order, known in law enforcement as a "Title III" order, should have been followed, instead of the more basic search warrant procedure. Mr. Scarfo's lawyers have demanded full technical details of the key logger system. The assistant United States attorney on the case, Ronald D. Wigler, said in his court response to Mr. Scarfo that the technology was used in full compliance with the law. In the brief, he refused to discuss technical details of the "sensitive law enforcement technique," saying that to do so would tip the hand of law enforcement in future cases. Mr. Wigler also said that the system did not record any e-mail communications and so the requirements for a wiretap warrant did not apply: "Letters do not become `electronic communications' subject to Title III merely because they happen to have been typed on a computer." All lawyers involved with the case are under court order not to speak about the case. Mr. Sobel said the use of keyboard loggers was a new area of surveillance that posed a threat to personal privacy. "If what this case means is we are about to see an explosion in the number of surreptitious police entries," he said, "that's a troubling development." Mr. Sobel, who has advised Mr. Scarfo's lawyers in the case and has followed it closely, said, "It's a very serious precedent." As people's computers become their mailboxes, home shopping malls, entertainment centers and more, he said, technologies like the key logger system give law enforcement "a secret means of monitoring all of that activity." Mark Rasch, an expert in government surveillance, said he was concerned about the use of the key logger before its constitutional implications have been thoroughly considered by policy makers. "What I want to know is the extent to which government believes it is entitled to invade privacy within the bounds of the law," said Mr. Rasch, a vice president of Predictive Systems (news/quote), a network consulting firm. He is also a former Justice Department lawyer who has consulted with a civil liberties group following the case. Philip R. Zimmermann, the creator of the program used by Mr. Scarfo and millions of other people worldwide, said, "I knew PGP would be used by criminals; I felt bad about that." He also said, however, that "the good uses to which PGP is put are so compelling that we have to factor that into the whole equation." He recalled inventing the program 10 years ago with goals like promoting privacy and protecting political dissidents around the world. But most powerful technologies, like automobiles, "have mixed effects on society," he said. "The fact that criminals use cars doesn't mean that the rest of us shouldn't have cars." Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company

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How would this work? Would it work at all? [jsimmons@transvirtual.com: [OT] DMCA loop hole]
by Gabriel Rocha 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

How plausible would this idea be? --gabe -- "It's not brave, if you're not scared." [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type message/rfc822]

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RE: NRA Prints HALF Of The Story (Barniskis)?
by Neal J. Lang 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hi, Jonathan, It takes a "big man" to see and then admit to his mistakes. Now, if I only can get some of my other friends to see the light. Thanks, Neal -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Wienke [SMTP:JonathanW@gbgcorp.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:19 PM To: Director(a)KeepAndBearArms.com; air.man(a)att.net; brian(a)citizensofamerica.org; cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net; George(a)Orwellian.Org; freematt(a)coil.com; dial911book(a)yahoo.com; lrrankin(a)silcom.com; Peter Mancus (E-mail); Merrill Gibson (E-mail); 'Neal Lang'; David Codrea (E-mail) Subject: RE: NRA Prints HALF Of The Story (Barniskis)? << File: ATT00000.html >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The American Rifleman article with the complete text of the John Ashcroft letter re the second amendment is in the August 2001 issue on pages 62 and 63, not the July issue. My apologies for the mix-up. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBO2cgtRj6oMyeDxZoEQLiTwCeNiFXMzVKO5N9h9eZwwk+UEivIRwAoP7g AM5g1whjNGCmXdwpVe5iMGK8 =H+CZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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