August 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Rattled mutilations in the midwest.
by Matthew X 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Two more hotels pull sex movies in CCV Bloodbath Gene sez: I warned you a couple of weeks ago this was going to happen... The Cincinnati Enquirer reports: Two more Tristate hotels have agreed, under pressure from a local prosecutor and police, to remove adult, in-room movies after complaints from anti-pornography activists. It's an unusual strategy, say its proponents and national experts, and a further sign that Greater Cincinnati continues to take a leading role nationally in battling the distribution of sexually explicit materials. Comfort Suites hotel on Riverboat Row in Newport (Enquirer photo) Campbell County prosecutors this month warned owners of the Comfort Suites hotel on Riverboat Row in Newport [Kentucky] that they should cease offering adult movies to guests or face criminal charges. Spurred by complaints from supporters of local anti-pornography activists from Sharonville-based Citizens for Community Values, Campbell County Prosecutor Justin Verst, working with Newport police, had officers secretly check into the hotel and videotape six adult movies. Mr. Verst then sent a letter, dated Aug. 7, warning Comfort Suites officials that he believed that offering the movies, which he described as hard-core pornographic material, violated Kentucky law regarding distribution of obscene matter. Two days later Comfort Suites officials responded by removing the adult movies. Soon after, Mr. Verst said, other complaints prompted a Newport police investigation of the Travelodge, 220 York St. Officers told owners to stop offering explicit adult videotape rentals to adult guests for viewing on in-room VCRs, and the owners complied. Phil Burress, president of CCV, said his group's new strategy of targeting explicit adult movies offered by hotels is the first of its sort in the nation, and that more Tristate hotels will soon be investigated by CCV supporters. The snowball is rolling now, said Mr. Burress of his group's tactic that has affected three Tristate hotels in a month. Bruce Taylor, president and chief counsel for the National Law Center for Children and Families, said no other anti-pornography group in the country has successfully pressured three hotels within one region to drop adult movies. That's unique, Mr. Taylor, a former federal prosecutor, said Wednesday from the center's Fairfax, Va., headquarters. He said that the Tristate's history of prosecuting obscenity made famous beginning in the 1970s with Hamilton County's legal battles with Hustler publisher Larry Flynt adds to the leverage the CCV wields. You have such a commitment and successful history of prosecution ... that the prosecutors only have to tell the hotels to remove the movies, he said. Earlier this month CCV officials grabbed national attention when they announced that their supporters had videotaped adult movies in the Marriott Northeast hotel in Deerfield Township and forwarded them to Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver. Mr. Oliver said be believed the movies violated Ohio's obscenity laws and warned Marriott officials of possible criminal charges, prompting them to remove the movies. I'd be very surprised if other actions are not taken by other prosecutors against hotels that are dealing in hard-core pornography, said Mr. Burress, who declined to reveal any details. The CCV, which was founded in 1983 as an anti-pornography, pro-family advocacy group, has been a high-profile lobbying force against Tristate pornography and what it claims are its detrimental effects on families, individuals and society. But civil liberties advocates blasted CCV's strategy as unfair to adults who say actions against their limited entertainment options might soon be followed by other restrictions imposed by watchdog groups. The CCV is trying to export their own Taliban style of fundamentalism, said Scott Greenwood, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and a Cincinnati-based attorney. Mr. Greenwood said the anti-pornography group's latest strategy, focusing on mostly out-of-town travelers and tourists, points out to a more pressing problem of why does the CCV find it so necessary to go after people who don't even live here. He said he is not surprised that hotels quickly choose to remove such adult entertainment rather than engage in litigation. They don't have deep pockets and these hotels are in business to make money, not to defend the First Amendment, he said. CCV officials estimate that 40 percent of the nation's hotels offer adult movie options, accounting for about 90 percent of pay-per-view revenue. An Enquirer phone survey last year showed that more than half of 20 Hamilton County hotels queried provided such entertainment. H. Louis Sirkin, a First Amendment and Cincinnati trial attorney, described CCV as a vigilante group whose only power comes from prosecutors he claims are not protecting citizens' rights. What's really frightening about this is that there are local prosecutors who are willing to forget their constitutional oath to protect the First Amendment, said Mr. Sirkin, who added that it's really easy to scare people and that's what the local governments are doing to the hotels. Mr. Sirkin, who has represented Mr. Flynt and was defense counsel during the city's famous Robert Mapplethorpe obscenity trial against the Contemporary Arts Center exhibition of his photos in 1990, said, It's disturbing to me that Cincinnati is getting a national reputation for this and that's one of the reasons the city is going stale. Travelodge management was unavailable for comment but Chester Musselman, CEO of Louisville-based Musselman Hotels and owner of the Comfort Suites at 420 Riverboat Row, said this is the first time such a complaint has been lodged against any of his 25 hotels in Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee. This is not an issue to us, Mr. Musselman said. I'm running a business and I'll abide by the local laws. Mr. Verst stated in an Aug. 22 letter to Comfort Suites that Newport police will occasionally check your business to ensure that no further such pornographic movies are being shown, or criminal charges will be filed. Mr. Burress said that no doubt some people will label this action a violation of privacy (but) it's not a matter of violating privacy or of imposing values. It's a matter of law. This is not about what someone views in the privacy of their home or hotel room, he said. This is about selling and distributing obscenity. There are state laws against that and major hotels are not above the law. http://www.generossextreme.com/

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Cold Kenfucky rain.
by Matthew X 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

CCV Exalts in Latest Victory Over Porn The Citizens for Community Values has put out the following press release: Newport, KY - Comfort Suites Hotel, located at 420 Riverboat Row in Newport, Campbell County Kentucky, has stopped making adult pay-per-view movies available to its guests. The policy change was announced in an August 9 letter from Tom Hillman, Director of Operations for Louisville-based Musselman Hotels, parent of the Newport Comfort Suites, to Justin Verst, Campbell County Attorney. Earlier that month Verst had advised the hotel that their hardcore, pornographic movies may be in violation of Kentucky's obscenity law. The news came on the heels of a similar announcement by another Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky hotel, the Cincinnati Marriott Northeast, to pull the plug on its adult pay-per-view offerings. The Marriott had been advised by Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver that pandering hardcore pornographic movies may be a violation of Ohio's obscenity law. CCV President Phil Burress praised Verst for his willingness to enforce Kentucky's obscenity law. "Newport has worked hard to erase its former 'sin city' image and to raise community standards," Burress said, "and Justin Verst has been a large part of that effort. With Comfort Suites out of the adult pay-per-view business, Campbell County is now free of businesses pandering hardcore pornography." Kentucky and Ohio are among 45 states with laws prohibiting the pandering of hardcore pornography. In addition, a federal law prohibits interstate transportation of hardcore pornography, including the Internet. "No doubt some people will label this action a violation of privacy," said Burress. "It's not a matter of violating privacy or of imposing values. It is a matter of law. In Stanley vs. Georgia (1969) the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that the First Amendment protects the private use of obscene pornography. But in Miller vs. California (1973) the same court also made it clear that the sale and distribution of obscene pornography is not protected by the First Amendment." Burress continued, "This is not about what someone views in the privacy of their home or hotel room. This is about selling and distributing obscenity. There are state and federal laws against that. And major hotels are not above the law." Gene sez: My question is when did Kentucky become annexed to Cincinnati and why is that state allowing the CCV to dictate policy?

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Showercam OK from judge.Brinworld in the toilet?
by Matthew X 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Camera in shower 'not indecent' By Lee Glendinning August 30 2002 A man who secretly set up a video camera in his bathroom and recorded his flatmate showering and using the toilet escaped conviction yesterday. The decision, handed down in the Downing Centre Local Court, opens the way for people to disguise cameras and film others on their own property. Richard Palmer, 47, a former company director, was charged with committing an act of indecency after he made a full confession. The taping was discovered when his flatmate put a tape into the video recorder and saw herself naked in the shower and using the toilet. According to a police statement of facts tendered to the court, nine other videos were confiscated from Mr Palmer's unit. Between January 25 and March 25 this year, Mr Palmer secretly filmed his flatmate and other women in various states of undress, the court heard. Prosecutor Sergeant Pat Huolohan said Mr Palmer's actions were an outrage against community standards and decency. "The victim had a right to know her own private actions were being recorded on video for the sexual gratification of the defendant." In his judgement yesterday, magistrate Daniel Reiss found there was not enough evidence to suggest Mr Palmer committed the act of indecency "towards" his flatmate. Rather, it appeared the taping was for his own sexual gratification and as a challenge to see whether he could record someone without their consent. The prosecution plans to appeal.

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"This is the plant for pesticides against the bush..."
by Matthew X 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/29/1030508098969.html Rats or humans? Inside Saddam's extermination plant. US Love it or drown it... In a scathing attack on their own country, a group of United States congressmen have called on President George Bush to ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate change, saying the US had a moral responsibility to small island nations threatened by rising sea levels. http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/29/1030508098972.html

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Britains Guardian backs CIA dirty tricks in Zimbabwe
by Matthew X 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Britain's Guardian backs CIA dirty tricks in Zimbabwe Article criticising the Guardian's editorial stance on Zimbabwe ( WSWS ) See also this Guardian leader from Saturday, this Guardian leader from March, and this blog entry from earlier this monthLINKS http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm Attacks on an Independent radio station and a human rights group in Zim just now. The African anarchism list to send a message email anarchy_africa(a)yahoogroups.com http://struggle.ws/africa.html

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Re: Cryptographic privacy protection in TCPA
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Nomen Nescio <nobody(a)dizum.com> writes: >If a key is misused, i.e. "scraped" out of the TPM and used to create a >virtualized, rule-breaking software TPM, it can be revoked. This means that >all the TPMs that share that one key lose the use of that key. But it doesn't >matter much, because they each have many more they can use. Since it is >expected that only a small percentage of TPMs will ever need their keys >revoked, most TPMs should always have plenty of keys to use. I designed something along these lines some years ago as a way of building a fault-tolerant key management system. The idea is that you create a pile of keys, and these vote on key updates. If a key is compromised, you sign its replacement with a quorum of non-compromised keys, and replace the bad key. You also periodically roll over keys as a preventive measure, limiting exposure due to compromises. No need for a PKI or anything else complex like that, it's all automatic and transparent. There can be slight problems if a device stays offline long enough that enough keys have been rolled over to make reaching a quorum impossible, which was an issue when I designed the thing but rather unlikely now. I can dig up the exact details in case anyone's interested. Peter.

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Re: The Liberty Dollar
by Michael Motyka 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Steve Schear <schear(a)lvcm.com> wrote : >At 03:52 PM 8/29/2002 -0500, Gary Jeffers wrote: >> The money is backed by silver and gold and can be redeemed widely >>in America. > >True but only fractionally (i.e., the precious metal content is only a >fraction of the face value). > >steve > Hi Steve, Did you try to follow their site? I love the bit on the website about "make 40% blah blah blah" by buying these colorful bad boys in volume at $6 each. The indexing of these things to Ag is truly fucked ( http://63.126.1.222/AgOver10.asp ). Apparently a $10 Liberty Dollar is redeemable for 1oz of Ag which is today about $4.50. If silver goes over $10 then they'll reset things to a $20 base. Er..what? I guess I didn't study enough mathematics. How the fuck are you going to make 40%? Especially in light of the sorry fact that if you're dumb enough to buy these little buggers it's going to be tougher'n'hell to find someone even more dumb to sell them to at a profit. Note quite as cute as e-golb.com. Speaking of which I never found out if it was a private enterprise or a slinking leo. The fucking ISP up in Davis never returned my calls. Mike

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Re: right MTA for crypto support
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Eric Murray <ericm(a)lne.com> writes: >On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:26:47PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: >> Eugen Leitl <eugen(a)leitl.org> writes: > >(actually, I wrote:) Oops, sorry, trimmed the wrong text. >>>It's relatively easy to turn on TLS in sendmail. It's not secure against >>>active attackers that can modify the data in the TCP stream but it's better >>>than nothing. >> >>Actually it's better than any other mail security out there. See the slides >>for my talk at Usenix Security >>(http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/usenix02_slides.pdf) for more >>details (the StartTLS stuff is about halfway through). > >It depends on how you define "better". Currently the amount of my mail protected by traditional means is essentially nonexistant. I get one piece of PGP-encrypted mail every month or two (and I was one of the peope who helped write the thing!) and I don't recall ever having received or sent any S/MIME-encrypted mail. OTOH something like 10-15% of all my mail is protected by STARTTLS, and the figure is rising continuously and will continue to do so (particularly if MS make some minor changes in Exchange which I've asked some people there about). It doesn't matter how many types of mail encryption software I have sitting unused on my hard drive, 10% (and growing) coverage with reasonable protection is better than 0% coverage with good protection. Peter.

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29 Aug '02

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