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06 Aug '02

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re: NORTON SYSTEMWORKS CLEARANCE SALE!
by new_soft2765y60＠consultant.com 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

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Re: Get Your Free Credit Report!
by Bill O'Hanlon 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

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God I'm a pig.
by Matthew X 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

Whoops,God IS a pig. ! Willful Disobedience Vol. 3, No. 2: A Few Words: Avoiding Moral Vanguardism Against Compromise The Machinery of Control: A Critical Look at Technology No Act of Revolt is Futile Not Just Producers --from Canenero Revolutioinary Solidarity --from At Daggers Drawn The State is One Hunger Strike A Tactic Expanded Social Subversion or Terrorism Beyond Selective Service A Call for Solidarity with Cypriot Anarchists A Letter from Marco Camenisch Captured in the Net --by Alberto In the Whirpool of the Passion --from Canenero "Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible" ? Death of a Despicable Man Different Here Like a Church --Massimo Passamani News and Shorts::: NEW online! Willful Disobedience Vol. 3, No. 1: A Few Words: Plundering the Arsenal The Refusal of Representatioin Work: The Theft of Life There are no natural Catastrophes Beyond Slow Death And God is a Pig More http://www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/vbutterfly.html

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(fwd) Re: dangers of TCPA/palladium
by Adam Back 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

Response from Peter Biddle on cryptography list. (I think he is a microsoft tech manager involved with palladium from a quick google). Adam ----- Forwarded message from "Peter N. Biddle" <peternbiddle(a)hotmail.com> -----

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USENIX Security TCPA/Palladium Panel Wednesday
by Lucky Green 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

I am scheduled to moderate a panel on TCPA and Palladium at the upcoming USENIX Security Conference this Wednesday in San Francisco. Representatives of Microsoft's Palladium project and the EFF have confirmed their participation. See http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/ for details. The slides of the talk on TCPA that I gave over the weekend at DEFCON are now available at http://www.cypherpunks.to Hope to see you all at USENIX, --Lucky --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Re: dangers of TCPA/palladium
by lynn.wheeler＠firstdata.com 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

a lot financial institutions went to certificates/credentials that only contained an account number .... nothing else ... largely because of the huge privacy exposure of any kind of identify certificate (everything about you embedded in a certificate that is attached ... frequently totally in the clear ... or at least at the end-points on every transaction .... including intermediary points like merchants). It was then possible to show (at least in the financial transaction & relying-party-only certificates) that such certificates could easily be compressed to zero bytes. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/index.html#aads in the online financial transaction case, the merchant is interested in the bank saying that the merchant gets the money ..... your identity isn't necessary for that ... and in fact, the EU directive of making point-of-sale transactions as anonymous as cash would also lead in that direction. First step is removing you name from the piece of plastic, then if the "plastic" credential doesn't have any identity .... why should there be a certificate at all. remail(a)aarg.net on 8/5/2002 6:25 pm wrote Adam Back writes: > To address privacy with for example Brands digital credentials, the > underlying cryptography may be harder to understand, or at least less > familiar, but I don't think using a toolkit based on Brands digital > credentials would be significantly harder than using an identity or > attribute based PKI toolkit. Similar for Chaum's credentials or other > approach. Sure, but how many pages would it take in the spec to describe the protocol? Especially given their turgid technical-writer prose? Brands took a whole book to describe his credentials thoroughly. In any case, I agree that something like this would be an excellent enhancement to the technology. IMO it is very much in the spirit of TCPA. I suspect they would be very open to this suggestion. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Ohio stinks,ask me why.
by Matthew X 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

Cincinnati Marriott Caves in to Pressure; Eliminates Adult Pay-Per-View From the Cincinnati Enquirer: The Citizens for Community Values in Cincinnati have waged a war against the Marriott hotel chain and won. Warned by local prosecutors that obscenity charges could be brought against them, operators of the Cincinnati Marriott Northeast have decided to stop offering pay-for-view adult movies to guests. CCV, an anti-pornography group assisted in getting the movies removed from the hotel by videotaping the in-room movies and forwarding tapes to the prosecutor. Other Greater Cincinnati hotels are being targeted in similar fashion. Phil Burress, president of theCCV, said we're ecstatic and that the CCV hopes for similar cooperation from other area prosecutors and hotel owners. Scott Greenwood, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio, blasted CCV's hotel campaign as fundamentalist, right-wing wackos ... trying to apply the lowest, most restrictive standards to something that is broadcast around the world. It's appalling. It's clearly a pressure tactic and it's anti-First Amendment and anti-personal autonomy, Greenwood, a Cincinnati-based attorney went on to say. In June Marriott officials at the Mason hotel were contacted by Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver and told that the hotel's satellite TV adult programming, which he described as quite explicit, violated Ohio obscenity law and that they face possible charges should they continue to offer the service to guests. The hotel's decision to at least temporarily withdraw the adult service also pleased Oliver, who said, That's what we wanted them to do. In a July 24 letter to Oliver's office, Mason Marriott lawyer William O'Brien wrote that while the 302-room hotel is committed to traditional family values, it is also a business that caters to all members of the public, many of whom have widely varying tastes and opinions. O'Brien stated that though the hotel has removed the adult movie option for guests, it has reserved the right to change its position. He added, however, that any resumption of the adult entertainment would be accompanied by a notification to the prosecutor's office. An estimated 40 percent of the nation's hotels offer adult movie options, accounting for about 90 percent of pay-per-view revenue, according to Burress. Burress said his group is stepping up its efforts to wipe out what he described as the hotel industry's white-collar pornography because they have started to bring in the hard stuff, he said, referring to explicitly graphic adult movies. He said he is concerned that guests automatically have the option of accessing such adult fare rather than having to request the programming from the hotel and that children in the rooms are only two or three clicks on a remote control from getting into it although hotels usually offer guests the ability to have the adult fare blocked. Ohio anti-First Amendment porn law put on hold [AP] A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of Ohio's new anti-pornography law, saying it's too broad and appears to violate the constitutional right of free speech. U.S. District Court Judge Walter Rice on Friday issued a temporary restraining order at the request of attorneys for bookstores, newspapers and video software dealers. The law adds computer images to the list of possible ways to display sexually explicit material and other content deemed "harmful to juveniles." Lawmakers passed the bill in February, and Gov. Bob Taft signed it in May. In his decision, Rice said the law's definition of what is harmful to juveniles is too broad and outlaws conduct and expression protected by the First Amendment. As written, the law could affect publishers, booksellers and others who disseminate material to juveniles, Rice said. The temporary restraining order keeps the law from going into effect today. Rice said he will grant a preliminary injunction later, which is indefinite and could result in a trial. Prosecutors origianlly welcomed the new law, saying it would allow authorities to put sexual predators behind bars longer. "We could use this statute as something else in our arsenal," Craig King, assistant Greene County prosecutor, said earlier. "It would give us another charge to throw in." When predators send pornography or nude photos of themselves over the Internet, they can only be charged with attempted dissemination of matter harmful to juveniles, a misdemeanor, since the detectives aren't really minors, King said. Under the new law, the predators could be charged with a felony and face up to a year more jail time, he said. But bookstores, publishers and video software dealers who sued the state argued that the law would violate their First Amendment rights and would restrict Internet communications. In a hearing before Rice on July 31, Elise Porter, an assistant Ohio attorney general, said the law attempts to modernize the way Ohio fights pornography and gives authorities more tools to go after sexual predators who use the Internet to prey on juveniles. Michael Bamberger, the attorney for opponents of the law, said the statute is too broad, and its definition of what is harmful to juveniles is difficult to understand. He said the law would have a chilling effect on the dissemination of constitutionally protected speech and expression. Courts in six other states struck down attempts at similar restrictions, he said. State Rep. Jim Hughes, R-Columbus, sponsored the law after a case he handled while an assistant Franklin County prosecutor. In the case, Mark Maxwell, of Oxford, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 1999 on charges that he enticed minors into sex through Internet chat rooms and e-mail. Some of the charges were dismissed because jurors said the law on disseminating pornography did not include electronic images, Hughes has said.

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Caymen on the run.
by Matthew X 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

Salon back on song! http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/08/06/tax_havens/index.html "...Caymans is a favorite ploy of companies looking to avoid paying their fair share of taxes -- Enron had 692 subsidiaries there -- that wasn't the reason Harken or Halliburton had done it..." Arbusto and Co are shown as the gutless, mean-spirited, utterly self-centred and cruel characters that they really are.

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Micemen.
by Matthew X 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

"...It blows my mind that these VC guys, who spent 20 years blathering about Ayn Rand capitalism, don't just admit that they live and work in a stagnant monopoly. What a bunch of limp-wristed sissies these captains of industry turned out to be, all these swaggering mercenaries so eager to punch out the bureaucrats in the free market. They're a race of slaves! They're like deer in the market's headlights, they creep around like mice." funny talk from bruce Sterling. http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/301-350/00325_open_source_speech.html

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