July 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Magaw forced out as security chief
by Jim Choate 19 Jul '02

19 Jul '02

http://www.msnbc.com/news/782337.asp?0cm=c10 -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Another restriction on technology - cell and cordless scanning now a felony
by Major Variola (ret) 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

Nice post, Could this be warped into affecting wardriving for 802.11b connections? The basestation's emissions could be considered 'private' even though they're not. The traffic could contain unencrypted voice packets, too. At 03:15 PM 7/16/02 -0400, Dave Emery wrote: > The House just passed the Cyber Electronic Security Act last night >(7/15/02) by an overwhelming margin of 385-3. > > What this does is change the penalty for the first offense of >intercepting an unscrambled and unencrypted radio communication that is >not supposed to be listened to (eg AMPS cellular calls, commercial >pagers, cordless phones, common carrier communications) for hobby >purposes (eg not a tortuous or illegal purpose or for direct or indirect >commercial advantage or private commercial gain) from a misdemeanor (one >year or less prison time) to a federal FELONY (5 years prison time). > > And further this changes the status of the specific offense of >listening to a cell call, cordless call, a pager, or a public land >mobile radio service communication (eg a telephone interconnect) from a >minor offense for which one can be fined a maximum of $500 to a federal >FELONY for which one can be imprisoned for up to 5 years.

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Slashdot | Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World (fwd)
by Jim Choate 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/07/17/1617225.shtml?tid=158 -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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New Scientist - Quantum entanglement stronger than suspected (fwd)
by Jim Choate 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992564 -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Suggested Reading
by Jim Choate 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

Espionage: An encyclopedia of spies and secrets R.M. Bennett (Forward by Bamford) ISBN 1-85227-942-7 $30 US -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CNN.com - PCs part of national cyberspace protection plan - July 18, 2002 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/07/18/computer.security.ap/index.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Slashdot | Time Warner to Allow Digital Recording (fwd)
by Jim Choate 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/18/1850252.shtml?tid=129 -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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18 Jul '02

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Re: DRM will not be legislated
by AARG! Anonymous 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

Read a great article on Slashdot about the recent DRM workshop, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/18/1219257, by "al3x": As the talks began, I was brimming with the enthusiasm and anger of an "activist," overjoyed at shaking hands with the legendary Richard Stallman, thrilled with the turnout of the New Yorkers for Fair Use. My enthusiasm and solidarity, however, was to be short lived.... Comments from the RIAA's Mitch Glazier that there is "balance in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (DMCA), drew cries and disgusted laughter from the peanut gallery, who at that point had already been informed that any public comments could be submitted online. Even those in support of Fair Use and similar ideas began to be frustrated with the constant background commentary and ill-conceived outbursts of the New Yorkers for Fair Use and, to my dismay, Richard Stallman, who proved to be as socially awkward as his critics and fans alike report. Perhaps such behavior is entertaining in a Linux User Group meeting or academic debate, but fellow activists hissed at Stallman and the New Yorkers, suggesting that their constant interjections weren't helping. And indeed, as discussion progressed, I felt that my representatives were not Stallman and NY Fair Use crowd, nor Graham Spencer from DigitalConsumer.org, whose three comments were timid and without impact. No, I found my voice through Rob Reid, Founder and Chairman of Listen.com, whose realistic thinking and positive suggestions were echoed by Johnathan Potter, Executive Director of DiMA, and backed up on the technical front by Tom Patton of Phillips. Reid argued that piracy was simply a reality of the content industry landscape, and that it was the job of content producers and the tech industry to offer consumers something "better than free." "We charge $10 a month for our service, and the competition is beating us by $10 a month. We've got to give customers a better experience than the P2P file-sharing networks," Reid suggested. As the rare individual who gave up piracy when I gave up RIAA music and MPAA movies, opting instead for a legal and consumer-friendly Emusic.com account, I found myself clapping in approval. Reading this and the other comments on the meeting, a few facts come through: that the content companies are much more worried about closing the "analog hole" than mandating traditional DRM software systems; that the prospects for any legislation on these issues are uncertain given the tremendous consumer opposition; and that extremist consumer activists are hurting their cause by conjuring up farfetched scenarios that expose them as kooks. (That last point certainly applies to those here who continue to predict that the government will take away general purpose computing capabilities, allow only "approved" software to run, and ban the use of Perl and Python without a license. Try visiting the real world sometime!) It is also good to see that the voices of sanity are being more and more recognized, like the Listen.com executive above. The cyber liberty community must come out strongly against piracy of content and support experiments which encourage people to pay for what they download. It is no longer tenable to claim that intellectual property is obsolete or evil, or to point to the complaints of a few musicians as justification for ignoring the creative rights of an entire industry. There is still a very good chance that we can have a future where people will happily pay for legal content instead of making do with bootleg pirate recordings, and that this can happen without legislation and without hurting consumer choice. Such an outcome would be the best for all concerned: for consumers, for tech companies, for artists and for content licensees. Anything else will be a disaster for one or more of these groups, which will ultimately hurt everyone. Let's hope the EFF is listening to the kinds of clear-sighted commentary quoted above.

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Slashdot | Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee (fwd)
by Jim Choate 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/18/157217.shtml?tid=155 -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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