September 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Text of "Mobilization Against Terrorism Act" now online
by Declan McCullagh 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

Text of the "Mobilization Against Terrorism Act": http://vorlon.mit.edu/~declan/mata/ http://www.well.com/~declan/mata/ Background: http://www.politechbot.com/p-02531.html -Declan ********** http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/20/0333204 Text of President Bush's Anti-Terrorism Bill Now Online posted by declan on Wednesday September 19, @10:20PM from the be-sure-to-read-the-fine-print dept. For the last week, Washington has been buzzing about what may -- or may not -- be in the "Mobilization Against Terrorism Act." We now have a draft copy of MATA online that you can find at http://vorlon.mit.edu/~declan/mata/ or http://www.well.com/~declan/mata/. (Alas, it's in a series of JPG files, but if someone wants to take the large version and OCR it, please post a link in the comment thread below.) The Bush administration sent a draft of MATA to Congress late Wednesday, with the House Judiciary committee pledging "a legislative hearing followed by a full committee markup as soon as possible" once they receive the final version. We'll let you look through the bill yourself, but note how this would expand the utility of the Net's two favorite surveillance systems: Carnivore and Echelon. If you want to crib from a summary, see the outline we posted on Tuesday. EFF's press release on MATA is attached below. --- Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release For Immediate Release: September 19, 2001 Contacts: Shari Steele, EFF Executive Director, ssteele(a)eff.org, +1 415 436-9333 x103 Lee Tien, EFF Senior Staff Attorney, tien(a)eff.org, +1 415 436-9333 x102 (office), +1 510 290-7131 (cell) DOJ's Anti-Terrorism Law Would Dismantle Civil Liberties Legislate to Improve Security Not Eliminate Freedoms San Francisco, California - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today criticized the "Mobilization Against Terrorism Act" proposed by the US Department of Justice because many provisions of the law would dramatically alter the civil liberties landscape through unnecessarily broad restrictions on free speech and privacy rights in the United States and abroad. EFF again urged Congress to act with deliberation in approving only measures that are effective in preventing terrorism while protecting the freedoms of Americans. Attorney General John Ashcroft distributed the proposed Mobilization Against Terrorism Act to members of Congress after Monday's press conference at which he indicated that, among other measures, he would ask Congress to expand the ability of law enforcement officers to perform wiretaps in response to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Ashcroft asked Congress to pass anti-terrorism legislation including "expanded electronic surveillance" by the end of this week. EFF believes this broad legislation would radically tip the United States system of checks and balances, giving the government unprecedented authority to surveil American citizens with little judicial or other oversight. One particularly egregious section of the DOJ's analysis of its proposed legislation says that "United States prosecutors may use against American citizens information collected by a foreign government even if the collection would have violated the Fourth Amendment." "Operating from abroad, foreign governments will do the dirty work of spying on the communications of Americans worldwide. US protections against unreasonable search and seizure won't matter," commented EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien. Additional provisions of the proposed Mobilization Against Terrorism Act include measures which: * Make it possible to obtain e-mail message header information and Internet user web browsing patterns without a wiretap order * Eviscerate controls on roving wiretaps * Permit law enforcement to disclose information obtained through wiretaps to any employee of the Executive branch * Reduce restrictions on domestic investigations under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) * Permit grand juries to provide information to the US intelligence community * Permit the President to designate any "foreign-directed individual, group, or entity," including any United States citizen or organization, as a target for FISA surveillance * Prevent people from even talking about terrorist acts * Establish a DNA database for every person convicted of any felony or certain sex offenses, almost all of which are entirely unrelated to terrorism EFF Executive Director Shari Steele emphasized, "While it is obviously of vital national importance to respond effectively to terrorism, this bill recalls the McCarthy era in the power it would give the government to scrutinize the private lives of American citizens." Ashcroft's proposed legislation comes in the wake of the Senate's hasty passage of the "Combating Terrorism Act" on the evening of September 13 with less than 30 minutes of consideration on the Senate floor. About EFF: The Electronic Frontier Foundation 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 websites in the world: http://www.eff.org/ The proposed Mobilization Against Terrorism Act: http://www.eff.org/sc/ashcroft_proposal.html EFF analysis of the Mobilization Against Terrorism Act [coming soon]: http://www.eff.org/sc/eff_ashcroft.html Attorney General John Ashcroft remarks on response to terrorism from FBI headquarters on September 17, 2001: http://www.eff.org/sc/ashcroft_statement.html The Combating Terrorism Act (S1562) passed by the Senate: http://www.eff.org/sc/wiretap_bill.html Senator Leahy's testimony on the Combating Terrorism Act: http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2001/s091301.html EFF analysis of the Combating Terrorism Act: http://www.eff.org/sc/eff_wiretap_bill_analysis.html Why "backdoor" encryption requirements reduce security: http://www.crypto.com/papers/escrowrisks98.pdf

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Re: On Internet and social responsibility (fwd)
by Reese 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

At 01:37 AM 9/20/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: > >> [Imagine at this point, a .WAV file saying >> "Choate's mother was a hamster and his father >> smells of elderberries." >> and that this mail is sent to the list and not just to you.] >> >> Slander is speech. > >Slander is harming another. The fact that speech is involved is irrelevant >to the fact you're causing measurable harm to another. Simply because you >use speech as some component, and speech is protected, doesn't mean the >larger process should inherit the protection. Huh? How is quoting a well-known taunt from a skit by Monty Python harming anyone? Is humor dead in Texas? >I realize this is confusing, but keep practicing. You won't have as hard >a time as you did with sex, I promise. With you as judge, I'll take a paper trip. Reese

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we must be on someone\'s radar if XENI \'s trolling
by solaar＠hushmail.com 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Let's play a game: what is Xeni Jardin doing on this list? (a) I'm a reporter who has no knowledge on this subject but hear that cypherpunks are "hot" and maybe I can snare a story. (b) I'm a reporter who has no knowledge on this subject but hear that that cypherpunks are "hot" and maybe I can snare a story ... in the process of screwing some people (fuck 'em if they're smarter then me - isn't that your motto). (c) I'm a reporter trolling for leads and since I fucked everyone over in the Alley and Valley & no one will give me the time of day, I better get some new leads - & these are just the people to screw over next. Which is it? ... This time solaar - ----- Original Message ----- From: Xeni Jardin <xeni(a)xeni.net> To: <cypherpunks(a)lne.com>; <CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:21 PM Subject: WP:FBI investigating if/how terrorists used stego, crypto > Terrorists' Online Methods Elusive > http://www.washtech.com/news/netarch/12557-1.html > > By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Jonathan Krim, > Washington Post Staff Writers > Wednesday, September 19, 2001 > > Government agencies are contacting computer experts for help in > understanding how Osama bin Laden and his associates may have used the > Internet to send encrypted electronic messages to one another to > coordinate last week's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, > sources said yesterday. > > For at least three years, federal agents had found evidence that bin > Laden's group embedded secret missives in mundane e-mails and on Web > sites. But efforts to track down and decipher the messages have > floundered. > > Numerous, easy-to-download software applications are available online that > enable users to protect transmissions from curious eyes and frustrate > government attempts to create a systematic way to locate and screen those > messages. > > Basic encryption tools allow people to scramble messages so that only > those with a "key" can read them. An increasing number, however, go beyond > this by allowing messages to be hidden inside graphics, music files or in > the headers of e-mails. The technology, known as steganography, allows > users to get around electronic wiretaps by piggybacking messages on > seemingly innocent digital files for things such as 'N Sync songs, a > posting on eBay or a pornographic picture. > > The proliferation of this technology, people in the security community > say, is changing the rules of the intelligence game by allowing anyone to > coordinate dispersed global armies quickly and cheaply. > > Several experts in the field said yesterday they've received calls from > the government asking for their assistance. One academic researcher said > he was asked to remain on standby to help try to peel the layers off of > any encrypted messages the government might find. > > But that might be the easy part. Sources close to the investigation said > the few messages investigators have intercepted in the past did not take > advantage of encryption techniques. The challenge, at least in this case, > has been finding the messages in the first place. > > Neil Johnson, associate director of the Center for Secure Information > Systems at George Mason University, which receives funding from the > government, said steganography is powerful because messages can > effectively be hidden almost anywhere. > > Johnson's recent research has focused, with some success, on how to crack > it by examining a site, image or data stream for signs that steganography > was used, he said. > > Mark Loveless, a computer security consultant with BindView Development > Corp., said the technology is also popular because if it's used properly > it would be almost impossible to trace the author of the message and the > recipient because of the random way in which files are distributed from > user to user using swapping services such as Napster and Gnutella. > > In the wake of the attacks, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) has proposed making > it mandatory that software developers give government security agents the > "keys" to encryption programs when they are created, a position strongly > opposed by many in the technology community who worry it could be used to > invade the privacy of law-abiding computer users. > > Phil Zimmermann, the creator of a popular encryption technology, said he > believes the answer to catching the terrorists lies in human footwork > rather than more surveillance technologies: "It's not practical to frisk > everyone on the planet to find the one person with a box cutter." > > The government has been waging war on data-scrambling technology on > several fronts for more than 30 years. It has asked Congress for stricter > rules on exporting the technology and has taken the developers of such > technology to courts. Most recently, the NSA created a whole department to > try to "leverage emerging technologies and sustain both our offensive and > defensive information warfare capabilities," according to a recent > document outlining its cryptography strategy. > > At a closed congressional hearing last year, one federal official said > that U.S. intelligence is "detecting with increasing frequency the > appearance and adoption of computer and Internet familiarity" in the hands > of terrorist organizations. "The skills and resources of this threat group > range from the merely troublesome to dangerous," the official said in a > submitted statement. "As we know, Middle East terrorist groups such as > Hezbollah, Hamas and Osama bin Laden's organization are using > computerized files, e-mail and encryption to support their organizations." > > That view was echoed by Ben Venzke, an intelligence and cyber-security > consultant in Virginia who assists several government agencies. > > "Groups like them are very intelligent," he said. "They are very wise in > the ways of tradecraft and operational security and will make use of any > tools that are available," he said. > > > > > > > > Back to Washtech.com Home > > ) 2001 The Washington Post Company > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wlsEARECABsFAjupjkMUHHNvbGFhckBodXNobWFpbC5jb20ACgkQA+AG7HGrzYqoIACg pNqq9+Zt8ID4BdZYfJFapR7JcmoAniOfaAPQUfqG9lnd+j5+RTRNHEVw =PIVc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: On Internet and social responsibility (fwd)
by Jim Choate 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: > [Imagine at this point, a .WAV file saying > "Choate's mother was a hamster and his father > smells of elderberries." > and that this mail is sent to the list and not just to you.] > > Slander is speech. Slander is harming another. The fact that speech is involved is irrelevant to the fact you're causing measurable harm to another. Simply because you use speech as some component, and speech is protected, doesn't mean the larger process should inherit the protection. I realize this is confusing, but keep practicing. You won't have as hard a time as you did with sex, I promise. > Courts often find them punishable or at least privately actionable as torts, > but to say they're "acts" and not "speech" is just weasel-wording Not at all. It's recognizing a significant, but subtle distinction. One you miss by a mile. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Kill them all, take their land, and go there for vacation. Rage Against The Machine The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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An interesting excerpt...
by Jim Choate 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

"To strike at the mother country where it was most vulnerable, embargoes were declared on all British goods carrying import duties. And the Sons of Liberty attacked anyone who did not observe the ban by the liberal use of tar and feathers and riding a rail. The fiercest opposition to Britian's revenue laws was staged in Boston, the principal port of Massachusetts, where a militant group of agitators - led by an ex-tax collector, Samuel Adams, and a local merchant, John Hancock - conducted a campaign that skillfully combined violence and sophisticated legal and political strategy. Radicals were now sitting not only in the elected Massachusetts Assembly, but on the Executive Council that governed the colony." Those Damn Rebels: The American Revolution As Seen Through British Eyes Michael Pearson SBN 399-10800-9 LCCCN 71-163414 -- ____________________________________________________________________ Kill them all, take their land, and go there for vacation. Rage Against The Machine The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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The Star (Canada): "It's the U.S. foreign policy, stupid" ..
by measl＠mfn.org 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:15:00 -0500 (CDT) From: MSANEWS <msanews(a)msa-natl.org> Reply-To: msanews(a)lists.acs.ohio-state.edu To: msanews(a)lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: The Star (Canada): "It's the U.S. foreign policy, stupid" .. Suicide Bombers were NOT "pious avengers" ____________________________________________________________________________ __ __________ _ _______ ______ / |/ / __/ _ | / |/ / __/ | /| / / __/ / /|_/ /\ \/ __ |/ / _/ | |/ |/ /\ \ /_/ /_/___/_/ |_/_/|_/___/ |__/|__/___/ Support MSANEWS, a project of learning and enlightenment "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste" -- Martin Luther King ____________________________________________________________________________ Source: Direct Submission Email: socraticquest(a)yahoo.com To: msanews(a)msanews.mynet.net Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:23:32 -0400 (EDT) Title: [The Star Article]: It's the U.S. foreign policy, stupid TEXT: Wed Sep 19 16:23:31 2001 It's the U.S. foreign policy, stupid Haroon Siddiqui STAR COLUMNIST AMERICA IS not the target of terrorism because Islamic fundamentalists hate American democratic ideals of freedom, liberty and "all that we stand for," as George Bush has claimed. Only if it were so. The problem may be much bigger. This is what needs to be grasped, quickly, even in this period of bereavement. There is a danger in this television-driven drama's misplaced focus on the ``how'' of last week's horror, that Americans will not pay sufficient attention to the ``why'' of it. The worst possible interpretation of the evil deed is to assume that it was carried out by spiritually inspired suicide bombers seeking "martyrdom" as a reward for trying to topple American hedonism. The mad bombers did not fit the mould of pious avengers. On the eve of their evil act, two were consuming vodka and ogling strippers at a bar. Another who had come via Germany liked to drink and dance with his live-in girlfriend whom he had ditched before crossing the Atlantic. They were trying to "meld in," to avoid suspicion, say the experts who know not that no true believer would ever behave so, even as a ruse. Nor did the bombers come from impoverished hellholes, the breeding grounds of zealots and ready recruits for extremist causes. They were educated products of privilege, sons of affluent families from Arab nations that are among America's strongest allies. This is scarier than we think. What we think is based on what we are told. What we are being told in the wake of the biggest terrorist act is what we have already been told, ad nauseam, in the years before. None of it inspires much confidence. Osama bin Laden is the prime suspect, yet we can't seem to get even the most basic facts on him right. He is said to have inherited $20 million. Or $200 million. Or $500 million. All stashed in a Sudanese bank. Or invested broadly. His accounts have remained frozen since 1998. Or maybe not. He has only a few dozen followers. Or a few hundred. Or "3,000 Arab radicals from 12 countries." Or an army of "35,000 warriors" assigned to secret cells around the globe. He lives in a cave with three rooms and four wives, satellite TV, faxes and phones. Or he does not spend more than one night in any place. Either out of ignorance or calculation, the theories on the motives for last week's attacks avoid the most obvious: America has many enemies. Not just because of globalization and a McWorld in which Coke brings harmony to all. Or because of American cultural domination. Or because America is arrogant and isolationist. Rather, it is due to American complicity in injustice, lethal and measurable, on several fronts: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which America stands by decades-long Israeli defiance of United Nations resolutions, international law and the most basic standards of human rights, keeping millions penned in military-patrolled enclaves. The decade-long American-led economic sanctions on Iraq that have killed 500,000 children under 5, strangled a whole nation and destroyed the birthplace of civilization. The mess in Afghanistan where the CIA recruited and trained the likes of bin Laden to overturn the Soviet occupation but dumped them once that mission impossible was accomplished. Since then, the American-led economic sanctions - imposed to help ferret out bin Laden - have inflicted a new wave of misery, leaving thousands of children dead and about 1 million people starving. American strategic alliances with the military and monarchical dictatorships of Algeria, Turkey and Egypt, as well as the oil-rich Arab states, all of whom crush even the smallest steps towards democratization. Add the American sanctions on Iran, Sudan and Libya, "the rogue states," plus the miseries of Bosnia, Chechnya and Kashmir, and you begin to grasp the utter dismay, and sense of helplessness, gripping the peoples of all these lands. Not all the conflicts can be blamed on America but many can be and have been, especially in the last decade, only to draw indifference or, more scandalously, a barrage of propaganda blaming the victims themselves: that Muslim genes must account for all the savagery and suffering surrounding them. It suits America to avoid the real issues, and the double standard and hypocrisy enveloping them. It suits Israel to keep up the fundamentalist, terrorist mantra, especially now, as it moves to create even more elbow room to crush the intifadah. It suits Russia, which has cloaked its brutality in Chechnya as a war against terrorism. It suits India on Kashmir. It suits China, in battling Uighur separatists in Xingiang region, and in keeping America on side for joining the World Trade Organization. With so many agendas at work, it is difficult to keep it all in context. It goes without saying, but bears repeating, that no grievance can ever justify what happened last week. But the apologists for America and its allies are disingenuous in advancing the racist notion, with nauseating regularity, that the victims burst out in anger because their religion rewards them for it. Some no doubt believe so. But to present them as the sole face of all the oppressed is to distort reality. The public, more than the media, senses this. Some put it crudely: America had it coming. The surprise is how a broad spectrum of the Canadian middle class, including academics, professionals and business people, is coming to the view that America needs, beyond any tactical strikes or smart bombs it might deploy, a more humane and even-handed approach to the world. _________________________________________________________________ Haroon Siddiqui is The Star's editorial page editor emeritus. His e-mail address is hsiddiq(a)thestar.ca http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Arti… Get to know us http://www.thestar.com - Canada's largest daily newspaper online http://www.toronto.com - All you need to know about T.O. http://www.workopolis.com - Canada's biggest job site http://www.torontostartv.com - Webcasting & Production http://www.newinhomes.com - Ontario's Largest New Home & Condo Website http://www.waymoresports.com - Canada's most comprehensive sports site ____________________________________________________________________________ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> <> <> <> ... 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Then, the ways to go about one's needs are met." -- Al-Jahiz ("Puffy"), 9th Century Baghdad, Kitab at-Tarbi` wat-Tadweer ("Squaring the Circle"), p. 101, Edited by Prof. Charles Pellat, Institut Francais de Damas, 1955. ______________________________________________________________________________ __ __________ _ _______ ______ / |/ / __/ _ | / |/ / __/ | /| / / __/ / /|_/ /\ \/ __ |/ / _/ | |/ |/ /\ \ /_/ /_/___/_/ |_/_/|_/___/ |__/|__/___/ Views expressed on MSANEWS do not necessarily represent those of the MSANEWS editors, the Ohio State University or any of our associated staff and "watchers". Further distribution of material featured on this list may be restricted. In all cases, please obtain the necessary permission of the authors or rightful owners before forwarding any material to or from this list. This service is meant for the exchange of analyses and news, for both academic and activist usage. We depend on your input. However, this is not a discussion list. Thank you. 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The Times - Secret plans for 10-year war
by Jim Choate 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001320010-2001325231,00.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Kill them all, take their land, and go there for vacation. Rage Against The Machine The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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The Register - USA is playing into bin Laden's hands
by Jim Choate 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21757.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Kill them all, take their land, and go there for vacation. Rage Against The Machine The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Mandatory ID Cards (fwd)
by None 19 Sep '01

19 Sep '01

Damn, haven't they figured out that tatoos are cheaper and less prone to loss? Jim Choate wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:08:47 -0700 (PDT) > From: Eric Cordian <emc(a)artifact.psychedelic.net> > Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)ssz.com > To: cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com > Subject: CDR: Mandatory ID Cards > > MSNBC is reporting that Congress is thinking of requiring all citizens and > non-citizens in the United States to carry ID cards. > > It looks like the anti-privacy folks are going to do an end-run around the > encryption issue, and first attack anonymity. An interesting strategy, > and one which we should not let go unchallenged.

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Re: Mandatory ID Cards (fwd)
by None 19 Sep '01

19 Sep '01

Damn, haven't they figured out that tatoos are cheaper and less prone to loss? Jim Choate wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:08:47 -0700 (PDT) > From: Eric Cordian <emc(a)artifact.psychedelic.net> > Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)ssz.com > To: cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com > Subject: CDR: Mandatory ID Cards > > MSNBC is reporting that Congress is thinking of requiring all citizens and > non-citizens in the United States to carry ID cards. > > It looks like the anti-privacy folks are going to do an end-run around the > encryption issue, and first attack anonymity. An interesting strategy, > and one which we should not let go unchallenged.

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