December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Fight-Censorship Dispatch #13: The Second Great Net Panic
by Declan B. McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fight-Censorship Dispatch #13 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second Great Net Panic ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Declan McCullagh / declan(a)well.com / Redistribute freely ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this dispatch: The Second Great Net Panic grips Washington, DC Bruce Taylor tries a "finger" gambit DFC online copyright action alert, press conference Deputy Atty General slams Net, calls for central control Al Gore decries "unwarranted censorship?" June 9, 1996 WASHINGTON, DC -- As a wet spring steams into a muggy summer, the Second Great Net Panic has gripped the nation's capital. It could be the humidity. The same waterlogged air that makes my keyboard stick about this time every year forces lobbyists and legislators indoors to catered receptions and air-conditioned hearing rooms where they catalog the dangers of the Net. Or perhaps election year politics lends this scaremongering rhetoric its rough, serrated edge. Whatever the cause, it's clear that last year's cyberporn scare -- centering around online smut and leading to the passage of the Communications Decency Act -- is dwarfed by this year's fevered attempts to control the Net. That is, you ain't seen nothin' yet. In the last two weeks: * The Federal Trade Commission held two days of hearings to decide how to regulate web sites that collect personal information about children. * Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA) announced at a Senate investigations subcommittee hearing that his suspicions of evil cryptohackers lurking on the Net mean the CIA and NSA must be permitted to snoop domestically, a practice long prohibited by law. * The Clinton administration responded to Congressional attempts to liberalize export controls on strong encryption with a "Clipper III" white paper, and a blue-ribbon NRC report recommended only minor changes in U.S. crypto export policy. * The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings where witnesses from the Hollywood copyright lobby testified that copyright thieves plague the Net. * A House Judiciary subcommittee is planning a final markup of HR2441, a terribly restrictive online copyright bill similar to one the Senate is considering, this Wednesday. * The Defense Information Systems Agency released a report claiming that hackers tried to break into Pentagon systems 250,000 times in 1995. * The 1997 Defense Authorization Bill will give the White House six months to report on "the national policy on protecting the national information infrastructure from strategic attack." * At the first-ever "CyberCongress" hearing held by a House committee, representatives complained about being flamed through anonymous remailers and said there should be accountability online. * Today's Sunday Washington Post featured an article by Richard Leiby on the first page of the Outlook section bashing "self-indulgent dross" and "crap" on the Net: "I took out the Internet trash and found there wasn't much left." * Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), chair of Senate Judiciary, held a hearing on June 4 where family values activists testified in support of Hatch's bill that gives you 15 years for creating or viewing a GIF that "appears to be" or is said to be kiddie porn -- even if it's actually a morphed photo of an adult. * Journalist Lew Koch unearthed an alarmist speech by Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick slamming not just nonescrowed crypto but the "social problems" of the Net -- and calling for a new "Manhattan Project" and even a new Federal agency to start "devising and implementing solutions." That's the bad news, and the good news is far from reassuring. Some Congressperns are starting to learn about the Net and the Internet Caucus' membership is growing. The computer industry has begun to become more involved in the legislative process, but they're up against well-entrenched opposition. The EFF's Mike Godwin had it right when he wrote to me earlier today: "Every agency wants a bite of jurisdiction over the Internet." I'm not placing any bets on the eventual outcome of the Second Great Net Panic, especially when protect-our-children rhetoric comes laced with protect-our-country slogans. But I know the summer's starting and some of the keys on my workstation are starting to stick. Yesterday I spent a sweaty afternoon performing open-keyboard surgery to try and get my home row working again. So I'm not too optimistic... +-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+ BRUCE TAYLOR TRIES A "FINGER" GAMBIT +-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+ Bruce Taylor, the former Federal smut-buster and chief architect of the CDA, is at it again. This time the Brucester is weighing in on the New York CDA case with an expanded copy of the amicus brief he first filed in the Philly lawsuit in which I'm a plaintiff. When I spoke with him last Thursday, Taylor sketched out his latest argument in favor of the CDA -- that it's constitutional because the "finger" service can be modified to return info about whether someone's an adult or a child. "I just learned about 'finger' a few weeks ago," Taylor said. His brief reads: Though the testimony is disputed between the parties, there is evidence in the record to show that there ways to comply with the CDA that are presently available, other means that are possible and trivial to institute, and there will undoubtedly be more and easier ways to comply in the future. Potential mechanisms of compliance include... agreement on an -L18 or digital or access provider user or some other mechanism or combination of devices which allow content providers to identify adult visitors to their sites, pages, or GIFs and thereby exclude children (such as refinement of the PRESENT METHOD OF FINGERING to identify the name of a visitor so that the visitor's access provider or ISP releases the users age as well as his or her identity -- a fact no less anonymous), [Emphasis mine. --DBM] Of course, Taylor's suggestion of putting an "A" or "C" (adult or child) flag in the info returned by finger creates more problems than it solves. Most online services don't provide information about users via finger daemons. More to the point, such a proposal would let any unscrupulous net.lurker troll for "C" flags -- not exactly the best way to protect children! +-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+ DIGITAL FUTURE COALITION ACTION ALERT, PRESS CONFERENCE +-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+ In response to a planned House subcommittee markup of its ill-bred copyright legislation this Wednesday, the Digital Future Coalition is planning a press conference at 9:30 am this Tuesday, June 11, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Presenters at the press conference include the Consumer Federation of America, the National Education Association, the American Committee for Interoperable Systems (including Sun Microsystems and America Online), and the Home Recording Rights Coalition. Other members of the DFC include the American Library Association, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, People for the American Way, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIGITAL FUTURE COALITION ACTION ALERT From dfc(a)alawash.org Imminent Congressional action on NII copyright bill threatens consumers, students, and other Internet users Your immediate contacts with key House Judiciary Subcommittee Members critical! The House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property will meet in the next few days to vote on H.R. 2441, the NII Copyright Protection Act. Call subcommittee members who represent you or to your institution NOW and tell them that this badly imbalanced bill shouldn't be voted on unless and until all of the following problems are addressed. If passed in its current form, H.R. 2441 would: * Make it a crime to manufacture the next generation of VCRs, personal computers and other digital devices needed for recreational and educational use by adding a sweeping and overbroad new Section 1201 to the Copyright Act; * Make simply browsing the Internet a violation of the law without a license from copyright owners; * Prevent teachers from using computers to their full potential in "distance education" efforts that bring electronic classrooms to kids, especially in rural communities and for the disabled; * Subject computer system operators -- including online services and networks at schools and libraries -- to potentially crippling liability for the copyright violations of their users. Please immediately fax a letter to -- AND CALL -- all members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property who represent you or an institution with which you are affiliated. These contacts must be made NO LATER THAN Tuesday, June 11 and preferably sooner. Address contacts to the Congressperson, but direct your letter or call to the appropriate staffer. [URL at the end. -DBM] +-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+ DEPUTY ATTY GENERAL SLAMS NET, CALLS FOR CENTRAL CONTROL +-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+ It's scaremongering at its finest. That's all I can think after I read the text of a speech Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick gave earlier this year at the Air Force Academy. Gorelick starts with the time-honored horror gambit of terrorists, child pornographers, organized crime groups, and hackers -- but then moves on to rail against the social problems she's found on the Net. "Email flames" and "faceless" chat rooms are threats to family values, she claims. Then she calls for a centralized government agency to deal with the problem of the Internet. Clearly, she says, we need a "Manhattan Project" to fight cybernastiness and net.terrorists: We clearly need one focal point in the government to take the lead in addressing this issue comprehensively -- to develop national policy, coordinate the necessary other agencies, and with industry on developing solutions. We need the equivalent of the "Manhattan Project" to address the technological issues and to help us harden our infrastructures against attack. It might be that we can just designate an existing agency to take the lead. Or we may need a new agency or some interagency body to perform the task... Jeanne Devoto (jdevoto(a)well.com) writes: [It's an] attempt to conflate the threat of computer intrusion with the "threat" of open access to a mass medium. If such a conflation is widely successful, we could see "We must pass this measure to license Internet users/ban indecent language/impose FCC regulation on ISPs - in order to combat the threat of computer crime!" Computers are the equivalent of nuclear weapons? Maybe treating software as a munition makes sense after all. +-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+ AL GORE DECRIES "UNWARRANTED CENSORSHIP?" +-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+ Al Gore sure knows how to play to an audience -- even if it's a bunch of computer geeks who don't like how the White House has embraced and defended the Communications Decency Act. During his commencement address at MIT on June 7, Gore said: But let me also state my clear and unequivocal view that a fear of chaos cannot justify unwarranted censorship of free speech, whether that speech occurs in newspapers, on the broadcast airwaves -- or over the Internet. Our best reaction to the speech we loathe is to speak out, to reject, to respond, even with emotion and fervor, but to censor -- no. That has not been our way for 200 years, and it must not become our way now. Talk is cheap. It's now possible for Washington politicians to speak out against the CDA -- but only because so many mainstream industry and academic groups coalesced around the ALA/CIEC lawsuit. When it counted, Gore did nothing to halt the morality crusaders who pushed the "indecency" standard through Congress. In fact, he embraced the bill, saying in an interview with the Wall Street Journal: This is an early Christmas for consumers. It's a terrific bill... Every concern the president expressed about the initial legislation has been dealt with on a bipartisan basis. He also issued a statement on December 20, 1996: Today we had a victory for the American economy and the American consumer with the bipartisan agreement to create a telecommunications industry for the 21st Century in a way that will lower prices, increase and improve services in telecommunications and preserve the diversity of voices and viewpoints in television and radio that are essential to our democracy. Stay tuned for more reports. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A clarification to Dispatch #12: Cherry v. Reno has not yet been formally consolidated with Shea v. Reno. Mentioned in this CDA update: Deputy Atty Gen Jamie Gorelick's speech slamming Net, calling for controls: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=2733 Complete DFC copyright Action Alert, with legislator contact info: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=2740 Declan McCullagh on "LolitaWatch" and -L18 -- July '96 Internet World: http://www.internetworld.com/iw-online/July96/news.html Declan McCullagh on CDA hearings -- June '96 Internet World: http://www.internetworld.com/iw-online/June96/news.html Bruce Taylor's amicus "finger" brief in NYC CDA lawsuit: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=2736 NRC crypto report now online, thanks to John Young: http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/nrcindex.htm Brock Meeks on Sen. Sam Nunn's plans for domestic snooping: http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/96/23/campaign_dispatch3a.html Al Gore speaks at MIT about dangers of net.censorship: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=2737 Al Gore's 12/95 statement on Telecommunications Act of 1996: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=478 Al Gore calls Telecommunications Act "early Christmas" present: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=469 Al Gore speaks at Penn, greeted by anti-CDA protests: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=1170 Creative Incentive Coalition on copyright, pro-HR2441: http://www.cic.org/ Digital Future Coalition on copyright, anti-HR2441: http://www.ari.net/dfc/ Brock Meeks on online copyright: http://www.hotwired.com/muckraker/96/20/index3a.html U.S. Congressional Internet Caucus: http://www.house.gov/white/internet_caucus/netcauc.html Fight-Censorship list <http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/top/> Rimm ethics critique <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/rimm/> Int'l Net-Censorship <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/international/> Justice on Campus <http://joc.mit.edu/> This document and previous Fight-Censorship Dispatches are archived at: <http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/top/> To subscribe to future Fight-Censorship Dispatches and related announcements, send "subscribe fight-censorship-announce" in the body of a message addressed to: majordomo(a)vorlon.mit.edu Other relevant web sites: <http://www.vtw.org/> <http://www.epic.org/> <http://www.aclu.org/> <http://www.cdt.org/> <http://www.ala.org/> <http://www.eff.org/> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Obscenity checkpoints
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Maryville-Alcoa (TN) Daily Times, June 3, 1996. `Calvin' Decals Catching Some Heat Auto displays may be deemed `obscene' By Justin Cress Tennessee motorists might need to be more discriminating in the future about the statement their automobiles are making. A recent warning issued to a South Carolina woman for displaying an "obscene" bumper sticker has caused some controversy about that state's obscenity laws. Decals portraying Calvin, of Bill Waterson's popular "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, urinating on assorted objects of ridicule are sweeping the Southeast. The decals' increased visibility prompts the question: Is it obscentity or simply bad taste? Patti Redden of McConnells, S.C., was surprised to find, while being stopped at a highway patrol checkpoint, that the reproduction displayed in her rear window was considered offensive and illegal according to state ordinances. Her version depicted the letters "IRS" receiving the Calvinesque treatment. Like South Carolina, Tennessee's obscenity laws prohibit the use of "patently offensive" stickers, window-signs, or other markings on a motor vehicle. An opinion handed down in 1989 by the state defines patently offensive as "that which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in describing or representing such matters," especially when pertaining to excretory functions. Sharon Curtis-Flair, public information officer of the Tennessee Attorney General's Office, expects to see renewed interest in the state's laws. "We went through this before in 1988 with (another questionable bumper sticker)," said Curtis-Flair. "The law has really not been tested yet. It's just never been challenged." (...)

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Re: Why PGP isn't so ubiquitous (was NRC Session Hiss)
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 05:43 PM 6/3/96 -0700, Joel McNamara wrote: > (I'm sure the name "wizards" is trademarked by MS, so they won't be called > that). You are free to use the word "wizard" provided that they look, feel, and work much like what Microsoft calls a "wizard" -- see the Microsoft UI guidelines. This demand by Microsoft is pretty reasonable. Now if it had been Apple or lotus they probably would have declared that you could not write anything that looked, felt, or worked much like a wizard. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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COST CA/WWW Security
by sead＠cost.se 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To whom it may concern: This message is based on some questions recently posted at this mailing list concerning the issues of certification technology, certification authorities and related security applications, especially Secure WWW syste, combined with usage of certificates. For all interested, I would like to invite you to visit our WWW server (http://www.cost.se) where you may find all the information about our current security products. You may also browse our CA infrastructure. In case of any further question, please contact me directly. Regards, Sead Muftic ____________________________________________ Sead Muftic COST - Computer Security Technologies CST AB E-mail: sead(a)cost.se Tel: +46-8-16 16 92 Fax: +46-8-471-7722

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Re: Electronic Signature Act Of 1996
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:24 PM 6/5/96 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote: >Please remember that the UCC's application is generally restricted to the >sales of goods or acts between merchants. I'll "remember" this only insofar as it reminds me to read your other messages with a more skeptical eye. I hope you pay more attention to accuracy when you're at work. -- Greg Broiles |"Post-rotational nystagmus was the subject of gbroiles(a)netbox.com |an in-court demonstration by the People http://www.io.com/~gbroiles |wherein Sgt Page was spun around by Sgt |Studdard." People v. Quinn 580 NYS2d 818,825.

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New Type2.list/Pubring.mix
by John A. Perry 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Everyone, I've created a new type2.list/pubring.mix combination on jpunix.com. The most notable change is that the q(a)c2.org has been removed from the list. After several spot checks over the weekend I noticed the ncognito remailer producing sporadic pings so I left it on the list. Also, please note that the middleman remailer has changed nym servers from alpha.c2.org to nym.jpunix.com. The files are available by WWW at http://www.jpunix.com as well as by anonymous FTP at ftp.jpunix.com. John Perry - perry(a)alpha.jpunix.com - PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome! WWW - http://www.jpunix.com PGP 2.62 key for perry(a)jpunix.com is on the keyservers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMbv9H1OTpEThrthvAQEyewQAqHY5duExLgUQBSf/EQOshXCevQReOKY4 LyVJ4GODBY626OxSUNvi+9+mlJs/0oW2tQ0iSuz3EeEBLrZw0m02wsCPtyGgojd+ hJd+T717sUX9xQ8lsiZHWZ27+Hvb0a8Y2yJ0ugYAKg5jTFfbSkxgpodSXdorqi7c Mlt6fLof080= =QCge -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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NYT on Crypto Policy
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The New York Times, June 10, 1996, p. A10. The New Encryption Universe [Editorial] The development of inexpensive computer programs and hardware that scramble telephone calls and computer messages to prevent eavesdropping is rapidly transforming the world of cryptography. Once largely the domain of governments and their intelligence services, encryption technology is now commonly used by corporations, banks, securities firms and individual computer operators. It is time to revise Government encryption policy to fit this new universe. A panel of the National Research Council makes a convincing case for doing just that after a careful review of encryption issues. The panel calls on the Government to abandon its effort to limit the development and availability of advanced encryption technology. The Clinton Administration has fought to preserve the Government's ability to access commercial and individual communications for law enforcement purposes by encouraging adoption of a single encryption standard that Government agencies could track and decipher if needed. The Research Council panel leans the other way, urging the commercial development of powerful encryption software even though it would make wiretapping more difficult. It also recommends that Washington ease restrictions on exports of encryption technology. The Government has long framed the debate over commercial encryption around its need to fight crime through wiretapping. The panel recognizes the usefulness of court-authorized wiretaps. But the panel suggests that a more important issue is the ability of the private sector to transfer confidential financial and other data over telecommunications pathways without interception. The Clinton Administration wants the private sector to adopt a type of encryption technology, known as key escrow, that would give the Government the ability to unscramble private phone or computer messages with court authorization and thereby preserve its wiretap capability. But the policy has so far failed several practical tests. The private sector has not voluntarily adopted a Government-controlled technology. In addition, encryption programs are already available that allow almost anyone with a computer and modem to work around Government-controlled technology. One sophisticated system would allow two strangers -- people who had swapped no private passwords -- to read each other's encoded messages. It seems likely that the Administration approach will not succeed. If so, the danger is that Washington might move to outlaw encryption technology it has not approved, a step that would grossly violate American civil liberties. The best way for the Government to protect its ability to eavesdrop on domestic and foreign criminals is to stay technically ahead of them. The panel recommends vigorous Government research programs to that end. The Research Council group would permit American computer companies to export more powerful encryption software than currently permitted. Foreigners already have access to encryption systems that are more powerful than those American companies are allowed to sell. The export restrictions do nothing to keep encryption software out of the hands of criminals and hostile governments, but needlessly drive American exports out of foreign markets. The panel's conclusions are especially credible because its membership was not tilted against the Government. The 16-member panel was led by Kenneth Dam, a former Deputy Secretary of State, and included Benjamin Civiletti, a former Attorney General, and Ann Caracristi, a former deputy director of the National Security Agency. The Clinton Administration should take notice. It needs a new encryption policy. --

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TWP on Crypto Policy
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Washington Post, June 10, 1996, p. A18. Global Village Cops? What will be the long-term effect of Internet technologies on global law enforcement? The amazing story of Bill and Anna Young, a k a Leslie Rogge and Judy Kay Wilson, offers one possible scenario. The pseudonymous Youngs, residents of Guatemala who the FBI says have been on a decade-long run from U.S. justice since Mr. Rogge was convicted of a string of bank robberies and other offenses, turned themselves in to authorities after a neighbor recognized Mr. Rogge's face on the FBI home page's Most Wanted list. According to a story first told in the Guatemala Weekly, the person who recognized him was a newly Internet-wired 14-year-old. The vision of the future evoked by this story, of a world in which the familiar "global village" becomes a place not just of instant communication but of neighborly nosiness and where no one can just melt into the crowd, is reassuring and unnerving in about equal proportions. (What if it were a network of hit men or an authoritarian government seeking a dissident, rather than the FBI, making use of this powerful technology?) But it's also worth keeping in mind that, other than the romance of the technology, it doesn't represent that great an advance on current global media that have made celebrities or fugitives' faces familiar to a vast public -- just ask Salman Rushdie. The Rogge nabbing is the first that the FBI credits to its home page specifically, but TV's "America's Most Wanted" has scored similar coups. The impossibility of predicting the exact shape of these extensions of policing is relevant as well to a report that the National Research Council recently issued on another computer technology issue -- the vexed matter of whether to ease export controls on encryption software, which encodes information sent electronically so that only a user with a key can decipher it. The government until now has resisted lifting controls on "uncrackable" encryption software -- that is, codes that are too complex to be broken by brute force -- unless the industry agrees to deposit keys in an escrow arrangement with a third party so the government can seek and obtain a warrant to read encoded communications if necessary. Software makers, meanwhile, are pushing hard to have these restrictions eased. The research council, an arm of the generally neutral National Academy of Sciences, sought to bridge the gap between industry interests and such government agencies as the FBI and national security agencies, whose case, they say, is based largely on classified matter that can't be publicly discussed. Part of the report's conclusion, which favors the easing though not the abolition of current restrictions, is that wider use of encryption technology will actually *help* national security and law enforcement because more data, economic and otherwise, will be secure to begin with. But if the news of the changing terrain tells anything, it is that it is far too soon to base arguments on such a premise. Our own sense on encryption is that the national security and law enforcement questions remain too important to be sacrificed lightly, despite the considerable economic interests of the parties on the other side. But the world of Internet law enforcement is still taking shape. Whatever the public conclusion on encryption, the debate should not rest on any assumptions about what that shape will be. --

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New signature
by Blake Wehlage 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ok you all happy now i made my signature 4 lines. After god knows how many people were bitching at me to change it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blake "Pokey" Wehlage Gaa- 3.69 (for ice hockey goalie) <jwilk(a)iglou.com> President of Revolution Software Quote- Does whiskey count as beer? -Homer Simpson Current Girlfriend - Lindsey Wilcox ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: [NOISE] I swear I am not making this up. (rec.music.white-po
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Received: from toad.com [140.174.2.1] by alcor.process.com with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 23:37 -0400 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA15816 for cypherpunks-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.c2.org (infinity.c2.org [140.174.185.11]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA15811 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:38:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ghio@localhost) by infinity.c2.org (8.7.4/8.6.9) id SAA18545; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Community ConneXion: Privacy & Community: <URL:http://www.c2.net> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606080130.SAA18545(a)infinity.c2.org> X-Plug: Community ConneXion offers privacy on the internet. http://www.c2.org/ From: ezundel(a)alpha.c2.org (E. Zundel Repost) >From: bb748(a)FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Milton Kleim) >Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.skinheads,alt.politics.nationalism.white, > alt.politics.white-power >Subject: Statement Regarding rec.music.white-power >Now that the results for our newsgroup proposal have been issued, we wish >to make a statement concerning our objectives. > >Three objectives were sought in the rec.music.white-power project: > [...] > >#3: Create a newsgroup for discussion and promotion of Aryan music. [...] You mean those wonderful ragas and songs from the Vedas, don't you? I ust *love* sitar music. Check out The Aryan Pages at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pateld/aryan_dir/aryan.html Peter Trei

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Re: Anti-Scientologists
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

James A. Donald wrote: > > At 07:13 PM 6/9/96 +0200, Anonymous wrote: > >Truth #1: It is a religion > >Truth #2: It is no longer a cult, since the leader is dead. > > Truth number 3: It charges fifty thousand dollars or so for > secrets of "religous technology" that are available free of charge > on the internet. So? Declan wrote: > Truth #2: Cults can exist in the absence of a charismatic leader. Would you describe Christianity as a cult? If not, why not?

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Re: Report from Germany on "backdoor" net-censorship
by minow＠apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>Criteria for the ICTF's proceed will be developed, evaluated and >>continuously updated by the Internet Medienrat. As an independant >>gremium, the Internet Medienrat tries to achieve a social consensus >>in the use of online media without government [sic! um] censorship. > >Is that any relation to the Judenrat that ran the inside of the Ghettos and >Concentrated Camps during the late unpleasantness in Deutschland? > >DCF Linguistically or politically? If my (almost totally forgotten) German is correct, the suffix -rat means "council" or "ministry" or, rather more generally, "governing body." But, you probably knew that already. Cheers Martin.

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[SF Bay Area] Internet security course at Stanford
by stevenw＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Seen on the net: The Western Institute of Computer Science announces a week-long course on INTERNET SECURITY taught at Stanford University July 29 -- August 2, 1996 by Arthur M. Keller (Stanford University) David H. Crocker (Brandenburg Consulting) Tina M. Darmohray (Information Warehouse!) Whitfield Diffie (Sun Microsystems) Mark Eichin (Cygnus Support) Alan Fedeli (IBM) Gail Grant (Open Market) Lance Hoffman (George Washington University) Peter G. Neumann (SRI International) Allan Schiffman (Terisa Systems) A Practical Week-long Course for Consultants, Educators, Government and Industry Scientists and Engineers This course is taught by leading researchers and practitioners in the area of internet security: Arthur M. Keller, Dave Crocker, Tina M. Darmohray, Whitfield Diffie, Mark Eichin, Alan Fedeli, Gail Grant, Lance Hoffman, Peter Neumann, and Allan M. Schiffman. Participants will receive a grounding in internet security, familiarity with current concepts and issues, and exposure to the most important research and development trends in the area. Connecting to the Internet brings both unparalleled information resources and unparalleled security dangers. Protecting computer systems and networks from attacks is a critical and ongoing process. Equally important is protecting corporate intellectual property assets from inappropriate access. This course will examine a variety of network security topics, including protecting against intrusion, detecting and tracking intruders, and repairing damage after intrusion. The course will being with a survey of risk analysis and setting up emergency responses to network incidents. We then follow with a detailed description of cryptography, including cryptographic policy and a panel. The course will then cover specific security technologies. These include network firewalls (which provide perimeter security), Kerberos and adding security to existing network applications, secure messaging, secure payments, and World Wide Web security (including SSL). This course will also analyze security issues for electronic commerce. We will also show a videotape presentation on SATAN by Dan Farmer, one of its developers, and a videotape presentation by John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura on Takedown. TEXT: Building_in_Big_Brother, Lance Hoffman, and a complete set of course notes. PREREQUISITES: This course assumes a general knowledge of computers and using the Internet. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Computer programmers, system managers, computer operations staff and managers, information technologists and managers, and teachers who want to gain insight into the capabilities, implementation and current trends in this emerging technology. COURSE SCHEDULE: INTERNET SECURITY Course dates: July 29 -- August 2, 1996 Schedule AM1: 9:00 -- 10:30 AM2: 11:00 -- 12:30 PM1: 1:30 -- 3:00 PM2: 3:30 -- 5:00 Mon AM Security Overview . Risk Analysis: Lance Hoffman . Setting up Emergency Responses to Network Incidents: Alan Fedeli Mon PM Cryptography . Cryptography 1: Whitfield Diffie . Cryptography 2: Whitfield Diffie Tue AM Cryptography . Cryptography 3: Whitfield Diffie . Cryptography 4: Whitfield Diffie Tue PM Cryptography . Cryptographic policy: Lance Hoffman . Cryptography panel: Lance Hoffman (moderator), Peter Neumann, Whitfield Diffie Wed AM Firewalls . Firewall overview and design: Tina Darmohray . Packet filtering, proxies, firewall toolkits: Tina Darmohray Wed PM SATAN: Dan Farmer by videotape Takedown: John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura by videotape Thu AM Kerberos: Mark Eichin Adding security to existing network applications: Mark Eichin Thu PM Security for Messaging: Dave Crocker Secure payments: Gail Grant Fri AM WWW security: Allan Schiffman SSL: Allan Schiffman Fri PM panel: Arthur Keller (moderator), Dave Crocker, Whitfield Diffie, Peter Neumann, Allan Schiffman ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS DR. ARTHUR M. KELLER is a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford University. He is Project Manager of Stanford University's participation in CommerceNet, which is doing the first large-scale market trial of electronic commerce on the Internet. He leads the effort on smart catalogs and virtual catalogs. He was Manager of the Penguin project, to provide sharing of persistent object data among multiple applications. He is also working on managing inconsistency in federated, autonomous database systems. His publications include work on database security, databases on parallel computers, incomplete information in databases, database system implementation, hypertext databases, and computerized typesetting. DAVID H. CROCKER is a principal with Brandenburg Consulting, providing business and technical planning for distributed information products and services. He has participated in the development of internetworking capabilities since 1972, first as part of the Arpanet research community and more recently in the commercial sector. Mr. Crocker has made extensive contributions to the development of electronic mail and other Internet services. He has worked at a number of Silicon Valley companies, producing a wide range of TCP/IP, OSI, and network management products. He serves as Chairman of the non-profit Silicon Valley - Public Access Link, a community network information service. Mr. Crocker continues technical involvement in Internet standards activities for transport services, electronic mail and electronic commerce. TINA M. DARMOHRAY is a senior consultant for Information Works!, which specializes in Internet connections, firewall configurations, security audits, and Internet workshops. Previously Tina led the UNIX system administration team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where her team had responsibility for over 1000 machines. Tina is a founding board member of SAGE (USENIX System Administrators Guild) and has over a decade of experience as a UNIX system and network administrator and instructor. She received her BS/MS from the University of California at Berkeley. DR. WHITFIELD DIFFIE, who holds the position of Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography, for which he was awarded a Doctorate in Technical Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1992. For a dozen years prior to assuming his present position in 1991, Diffie was Manager of Secure Systems Research for Northern Telecom, functioning as the center of expertise in advanced security technologies throughout the corporation. Among his achievements in this position was the design of the key management architecture for NT's recently released PDSO security system for X.25 packet networks. Diffie received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. He is the recipient of the IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award for 1979 and the IEEE Donald E. Fink award for 1981. MARK EICHIN is the primary development engineer for Cygnus Network Security, Mark Eichin has been involved in the development of the Kerberos network security system since his days as an undergraduate at MIT. He continues to work closely with MIT on the development of Kerberos. He was also involved in the design and implementation of the Zephyr Notification Service, which has been billed as one of the most complex uses of Kerberos ever seen in an application. ALAN FEDELI manages IBM network security functions including: IBM's AntiVirus products and services, phone fraud, and external network connectivity policy and security countermeasures. He also manages IBM's central Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), which handles harmful code and network intrusions worldwide, for IBM and customers. He formed IBM's Internet Emergency Response Service (ERS) as a fee-based commercial offering. He has been a manager of technology in IBM for the past 20 years. He has managed systems programming, network software development, and in the past 7 years he has created information security businesses within IBM. He is a graduate of City College of New York, and recently earned his MBA in Organizational Behavior at Pace University. GAIL GRANT is the vice president for Business Development for Open Market, Inc., responsible for evaluation of potential technology partners and long-term technical requirements. She also is the chairman of the Network Services Working Group in CommerceNet, which is working to facilitate the development, standardization and deployment of protocols, applications and enabling technologies which provide authentication, privacy/encryption and certification services over the Internet in a secure and interoperable manner. Prior to joining OMI in 1994, Ms. Grant pioneered the Internet Alpha Program for Digital Equipment Corporation. This innovative, industry-first program generated millions in revenues and was featured in numerous publications, including Fortune Magazine, The New York Times and USA Today. Previous positions include development and development management positions at Bolt Beranek and Newman in Cambridge MA and in Cardiac Research at Mass. General Hospital in Boston MA. Ms. Grant presents regularly at conferences on the Internet, World-Wide Web and Electronic Commerce as well as recently authoring a chapter on Internet business transaction systems for Mary Cronin's upcoming book in Internet strategies to be published by Harvard Business School Press. DR. LANCE J. HOFFMAN is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The George Washington University in Washington, D. C. and Director of the School of Engineering's Institute on Computer and Telecommunications Systems Policy. He is known for his pioneering research on computer security and risk analysis, and for his interdisciplinary work in computer policy issues. Dr. Hoffman is the author or editor of five books and numerous articles on computer security and privacy; his new work on cryptographic policy, Building in Big Brother, is the first book devoted to the topic. He also is the editor of the well-received readings book Rogue Programs: Viruses, Worms and Trojan Horses. Dr. Hoffman has lectured around the world on computer security and privacy and on the vulnerability of society to computer systems. Dr. Hoffman was previously a National Lecturer for the Association for Computing Machinery and a Distinguished Visitor for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He served as general chairman of the Second Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, held in March 1992 in Washington. He is past chair of the IEEE Committee on Communications and Information Policy's Subcommittee on Information Security and Applications. Dr. Hoffman is a member of the National Advisory Board of the newsletter Privacy and American Business and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. DR. PETER G. NEUMANN is a principal scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI, where he has been since 1971, and his work is concerned with computer systems having requirements for security, reliability, human safety, and high assurance (including formal methods). He was founder and Editor of the SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (1976-1993), and is Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy (since 1985), a Contributing Editor for CACM (since 1990), and creator (in 1985) and moderator of the ACM Forum on Risks to the Public in the Use of Computers and Related Technology. His RISKS-derived book on the benefits and pitfalls of computer-communication technology, Computer-Related Risks, is published by ACM Press and Addison Wesley. ALLAN M. SCHIFFMAN was named chief technical officer of Terisa Systems in April 1995. He was formerly chief technical officer of EIT, one of the founders of Terisa. He is principal architect of CommerceNet, a Bay Area consortium supporting electronic commerce over the Internet. His current obsession is Internet transaction security and has been working for the last year on Secure HTTP. Schiffman was previously vice president of technical strategy for ParcPlace Systems where he led the development of their well-known Objectworks\Smalltalk product family. Prior to this, he was senior MTS at Schlumberger Research and assistant director of the Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. COURSE INFORMATION Dates: Monday-Friday, July 29-August 2, 1996 Times: Registration Sunday afternoon, July 28 Morning sessions 9:00am-12:30pm with a 30 minute break Afternoon sessions 1:30-5:00pm with a 30 minute break Lunch break 12:30-1:30pm daily Location: on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, CA. Course Fee: $1,450 (includes instruction, complete set of course notes, break refreshments, and Tuesday night reception.) $1,575 for registration after July 15 Group Discount: A $100 discount is given to each individual when three or more register from the same organization for one of the courses. Accommodations: Housing information will be mailed at the request of the participant after enrollment. Parking permits are available at the Sunday afternoon course registration and are not included in your registration fee. Out-of-town participants will probably NOT need a car during the week. 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FOR INFORMATION: Call Western Institute of Computer Science at (916) 873-0575; email to barnhill(a)hudson.stanford.edu. _____________________________________________________________________________ Registration Form INTERNET SECURITY July 24-28, 1995 Registration on or before July 15 [ ] INTERNET SECURITY $1,450 Registration after July 15 [ ] INTERNET SECURITY $1,575 Name____________________________________ Title___________________________________ Company_________________________________ Address_________________________________ ________________________________________ City/State______________________________ Zip___________________ Country_________________ Work Phone (________)___________________ Home Phone (________)___________________ Electronic Mail address __________________________ on network _____________________ Total amount enclosed: $___________ Method of payment [ ] Check enclosed (payable to WICS) [ ] Visa/Mastercard #________________________________ card exp. date__________ cardholder signature___________________________________________________ [ ] Bill my company. 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Kahn's "The CodeBreakers"
by Brad Shantz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

C-Punks, Just as an interesting side note..... I got lucky this weekend and found a First Edition copy of David Kahn's "The Code Breakers" at a little bookstore in Port Townsend, Washington. WHAT A SHOCK!!! Anyway, I snagged it for $25.00. The cover has been laminated (library style, not card style) and it is in excellent condition. For those wondering what the significance of Port Townsend is...well, there is none. It is, however, the location of Fort Worden which is where "An Officer and a Gentleman" was filmed. (Major piece of military history, isn't it?) Anyway, if any one is looking for a copy, mine is not for sale, but the owner of the store said that she has seen copies come through every now and again. (Not necessarily First Ed's) If you are interested in getting in touch with the store, let me know. Please use my work address, brads(a)trisource.com Brad Shantz TRIsource Windows Development Services 2825 Eastlake Ave. E. Suite 100 Seattle, WA 98012-3062

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by Steve Dommett 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:01 PM 6/9/96 +0200, Anonymous wrote: > >Bryce wrote (whilst on his high horse): > >> Hm. I think the best we could hope for is along the lines of >> "The suspect subscribed to the 'Cypherpunks' discussion group on >> the Internet, but his violent views were rejected by the members >> of the group." > >Not every member of this list rejects his views. I for one do not >reject them outright, but will not defend his views publically for >fear of embarassing the corporation that I work for. Some day, the "embarrassment" may be among those who misunderstood an idea that is, by then, fully operational and was an improvement over the previous system. I seem to recall some funny poster titled something like "The five stages of a new idea" which starts out "It'll never work" and ends up, "I knew it would work all along!" >I do not >reject Jim Bell's violent views for the simple reason that violence >is often required to fight violence. In other words, the best you >can hope for is "... but his violent views were rejected by some >members of the group." I'd like to know what they mean by using the term "rejected." A rejection without an alternative is irresponsible. Assuming they agree that the status quo is unacceptable, and if they believe that change is possible, then what is their solution? Moreover, what is the real meaning of the word "rejected" in this context? You can't "reject" gravity, or a hurricane, or eventual death. >> It is important that the reporter manages to _not_ use the word >> "member" to indicate that Bell is a "member" of Cypherpunks. > >He *is* a member. And why shouldn't he be? Are you suggesting that >this group become moderated? (hiss). The whole AP concept is very >relevent to the Cypherpunks, whether the majority like it or not. In fact, I'd argue that it's inextricably linked to good encryption. Defending one will ultimately defend the other. >If your fear is that reporters will get hold of the wrong end of the >stick, then perhaps you are correct, but the real problem is the >*reporters*, not the attitude of the Cypherpunks. blame them. >propose a solution. (how about abolition of all libel laws?) Now _that's_ an excellent idea! Libel laws never protect the anti-establishment, non-mainstream portion of the public, for one. >> This is assuming that the statement "his violent views were >> rejected by the members of the group" is actually true! If >> there _is_ anyone else here who shares Bell's evil enthusiasms, >> I strongly encourage you to begin a new list dedicated to that >> topic. > >I disagree with the phrase "evil enthusiasms." Bell is not an >evil man. A little crazy perhaps, but not evil. Thanks...uh...I think... > If you bothered >to listen to him, you would find that his aim is to create a >"better" world, where people (especially politicians) are very >much more responsible for their own actions. He suggests that >the number of deaths due to AP will be less that the number of >deaths due to the current corrupt system. True. And it's not just the quantity of deaths that'll be lowered: The "quality" of those deaths (the justification for killing the target) will go up, which may seem to be an odd way to refer to it. Most of us will agree that if there was some way to swap the death of the victim, automatically, for the death of the criminal or attacker, that would be far more just arrangement, as well as rather rapidly deterring future killings. An example of the exact opposite is frequently exposed in discussing anti-gun-carry laws, which only disarm law-abiding citizens and leave the criminals armed. Such laws, therefore, actually swap the death of the criminal for the death of the victim. >think about it. how many on this group would have another man >killed for his views? For his noisy stereo? For a competive >advantage in business? I am confident the answer will be zero. Moreover, the number of people wanting to kill the "unjustified" target will be extremely low, meaning that one odd donor would have to pay a large amount of money to get "action" on his donation. >On the other hand, I would gladly throw in a few dollars to have >certain politicians killed. gladly. and I will be able to sleep >at night. You and a few million other people. Which is why AP will work so well getting rid of governments...and criminals. >I will sleep better knowing that, although I was >partly responsible for a mans death, I will have saved countless >others (a bit like dropping an a-bomb on Japan). That's exactly correct. But also, the very existence of such a system will _deter_ such people, meaning that it is very likely you won't have to pay for anybody's death at all...except for a few that resignation won't save. >Question for Jim - would you resort to AP to have Bryce popped off? Nope. Not when there are so many other deserving targets! B^) >Question for Bryce - would you resort to AP to have Jim popped off? It wouldn't do any good... Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Anti-Scientologists
by Rich Burroughs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 05:37 PM 6/10/96 +0200, someone wrote: [snip] >Declan wrote: > >> Truth #2: Cults can exist in the absence of a charismatic leader. > >Would you describe Christianity as a cult? If not, why not? So we're going to argue about whether the word "cult" should apply to CoS?? Okay, how about this: it's a _religion_ that uses deception, mind control techniques, and criminal activities to attempt to get as much possible money from as many marks^H^H^H^H^H worshippers as possible, and goes to extreme lengths to silence its critics. Is that better? Hubbard started CoS because he was getting too much heat over the quackery and pseudoscience in "Dianetics." I'm going to start a religion, too, called the Church of the Shell Game. Don't you call it a cult, or I'll be real mad! Rich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMbx6cYT0GKfZRA/9AQFUTwP+ODigyynDs76o039u/SgxP5K54LSOjsh+ AoKWi81U/cHwPABNZ+fhoP+Hcpd21m4mycWRcFoMwW/VC1xfuEYaCRrqhUlJy5oe EMYlHNbZQ/klZPBnZkfBZSJFApWpeZTfsaAPKnzwtEGJVTGd0GtdnUe8X2mfCJHJ Hc5gmTmyQvA= =RZOB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________________________________ Rich Burroughs richieb(a)teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~richieb See my Blue Ribbon Page at http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/blueribbon New EF zine "cause for alarm" - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause

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HACK - Class III Information Warfare, Has It Begun? (fwd)
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Yes, I recently subscribed to Netly-L. What of it? Any bets on whether the Sunday Times is going to sue Time for this blatant copyright violation? :-) -rich ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:17:41 -0400 From: Noah Robischon <noah(a)pathfinder.com> Reply-To: netly-l(a)pathfinder.com To: Multiple recipients of list <netly-l(a)relay.pathfinder.com> Subject: HACK - Class III Information Warfare, Has It Begun? Well this update from The Sunday Times of London clarifies just how much last week's story was based on rumor. The answer: totally. (Esp. note the quote in paragraph #5). From: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stinwenws01027.html?12 55993 Secret DTI inquiry into cyberterror THE government has been holding a secret investigation into attacks by "cyber terrorists" on the City of London for more than two years. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Bank of England, GCHQ, the secret listening station, and the Defence Research Agency (DRA) are involved in the inquiry. The existence of the investigation, which began in April 1994, emerged after The Sunday Times revealed last week that banks, broking firms and investment houses had paid millions of pounds to gangs that threaten to wipe out computer systems. Correspondence from the investigating authorities, seen by Insight, include letters from civil servants saying they are "extremely concerned" at the evidence of extortion demands. Yesterday the DTI issued a statement confirming the inquiry and suggesting its work had been hampered by the lack of co-operation from City institutions. "We are very interested in the allegations of extortion directed at City of London institutions which were brought to our attention in 1994. We responded then by involving many government organisations, including the DTI, the police, the Bank of England and other agencies. So far, we have not been presented with any hard evidence from victims.We would urge those threatened to come forward," a spokesman said. In one letter, dated May 1995, David Hendon, director of DTI technical affairs, wrote to a company specialising in computer security work stating that he was taking the City extortion issue "extremely seriously". Insight has since seen the evidence passed to the DTI and GCHQ which sparked the investigation. In 1994, a consultant working for a company which undertakes computer risk assessments for City institutions compiled a table of 46 attacks on banks and finance houses in New York, London and other centres, starting in January 1993. The list included details of raids on three British banks and one American investment house. The documents suggested that operations in the futures markets had been a focus for some of the attacks. Documents sent by the DRA, from the office of Professor David Parks, a senior director, indicate that the agency is especially interested in the "weaponry" deployed by the cyber terrorists. The agency believes high-intensity radio frequency (HIRF) guns may have been used to black out trading positions in City finance houses. The weapon disables a computer by firing electromagnetic radiation at it and is a "black programme" at the defence ministry, one of the highest security classification levels. Last December, Parks approached a company which specialises in defensive measures against information warfare and carries out work for GCHQ. For a£30,000 fee it was asked to arrange a demonstration of a portable HIRF weapon in Germany. Details of the HIRF weaponry and its use in the City have also been compiled by Computing magazine, which intends to pass them to the DTI and other authorities.

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Re: Kahn's "The CodeBreakers"
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:40 AM 6/10/96, Brad Shantz wrote: >For those wondering what the significance of Port Townsend is...well, >there is none. It is, however, the location of Fort Worden which is >where "An Officer and a Gentleman" was filmed. (Major piece of >military history, isn't it?) > Ah, but it does have some significance. "Liberty" is published out of Port Townsend. (More precisely, it was the last time I looked.) And it's near Hump Tulips, Sequim, and Chimicum (sp?). Ma and Pa Kettle country. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Report from Germany on "backdoor" net-censorship
by jaed＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:10 PM 6/9/96, Ulf Moeller wrote: >Furthermore, sample news articles will be suject to detailed legal >evaluation. Should this result in suspicion or proof of transportation >of illegal contents, the ICTF can launch various steps to work against >propagation of these contents. For example, it can arrange for >blocking of complete newsgroups or retrospect "Cancel" of articles >already transmitted. Um. Does this ICTF understand the implications of sending forged cancel messages outside its own server, when the cancels are based strictly on disapproval of the content? Do they realize what the consequences will be for carriage of traffic from their node? Is Germany about to become known as "Cancelbunny Nation"? >Internet Media Counsil presents fist measurements for Voluntary >Self-Control This is a wonderful type in the fifth word above... ;-) -- The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it. - with apologies to John Gilmore

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Re: Gore opposes unwarranted'' Internet censorship
by shabbir＠vtw.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We should not cut the Administration slack on the basis of some carefully spun comment by Al Gore's handlers. We're going to win this one for ourselves. The fact that the White House has begun the process of backing away from their own case through ol' Al should not, and will not, change my mind. If you're going to give them credit for anything, give them credit for directing the Justice dept. to state that they were opposed to Exon's ideas very early on in the game. (even if that position became amazingly low profile when faced with the certainty of the rest of the telecomm bill) -Shabbir J. Safdar * Online Representative * Voters Telecomm. Watch (VTW) http://www.vtw.org/ * Defending Your Rights In Cyberspace Mike McNally writes: >Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote: >> >> Sounds good but I had to laugh when I heard it... is he at odds with >> other members of the administration, or is this rhetoric? > >Good cop, bad cop. > >______c_____________________________________________________________________ >Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * pain is inevitable > m5(a)tivoli.com * m101(a)io.com * > <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * suffering is optional

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InfoWar and a.r.s
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It seems to me we are seeing an example of Information Warfare in the doings around alt.religion.scientology. The board game "Go" models warfare by having a goal of controlling territory. In the a.r.s war, we see the combatants trying to control the newsgroup. We even see an arms race with weapons such as cancelbots being developed and employed. The major difference between newsgroup war and conventional war is that the dimension a victor needs to control is time and not space. One question to ponder is whether the a.r.s war will perform the same role as the Spanish Civil War vs. WW2. Will we see newsgroup war expand to other news groups? I would think a few of the .culture.* groups could be candidates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Slander of Catholic Church
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 7:42 PM 6/10/96, Rich Burroughs wrote: >.... Okay, how about this: it's a _religion_ that uses >deception, mind control techniques, and criminal activities to >attempt to get as much possible money from as many marks^H^H^H^H^H >worshippers as possible, and goes to extreme lengths to silence >its critics. I don't think this vicious criticism of the Catholic Church is warranted here! Many of those investigated by the Holy Office actually _were_ heretics, and the turning of bread into the holy flesh of Our Lord Jesus Christ has been verified by Vatican scientists. Further, those peasants of Latin America who give their earnings to the Church so that more jewel-encrusted crosses and goblets can be bought do not see themselves as victims of a scam. After all, the Church may get richer in this secular world as they get poorer, but the Church promises them a seat at St. Peter's dinner table in the next life. As to the Church silencing its critics...surely you are not referring to that Jew slander about the Vatican banker found hanging from Black Friar's bridge in London? Or the Protestant myth about Opus Dei and its dispensation of papal justice? The Pope can utter nothing that is false when he speaks ex cathedra. You heathens had better remember this, else you may expect an invitation from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (which some of you heretics and nonbelievers may know by its old name, the Sacred Congregation of Universal Inquisition). Millions alive today will reveal the truth before they die. --Cardinal Timothy May (Who believes all cults and religions are basically the same shuck and jive, and who thinks the "Church of Scientology" is actually a little bit less foolish that the Church of Mormon, with its "baptism of dead ancestors" into the Church, the funny underwear people have to secretly wear, etc. However, I have great respect for the practical tactics of the Mormons, and no respect for the day to day behavior of the CoS.) Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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PGP key revocation
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If you exchanged private email with me in the last 18 months, encrypted or not, in either direction, you should assume that it has been read. If you want to contact me, please use my alpha pager, rich(a)beep.stanford.edu (60 characters in the Subject: line) or leave a message at 415-725-7710 and I will call you back. My backup key 0x6992AB4D is probably still secure, but I'm going to generate a new one as soon as I find the time to build a clean machine. Thank you for playing. -rich -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzCFUi4AAAEEAN/ubnqjGw3s2lNatp3UIqsMarHA9GyZQijm5kgSMaSrsp6M u43nYmUvcfEAffDv4bH2uH6D1KnSx5DlNoC7uxzjD2jJjAcIiEo/5wkGrBPUBjA+ C9hHsVXIrzDvXWcz/iHAJhyljgqGl9NkvGAy6PNLcJk/ljmixI3DXUbM57SdAAUR iQCVAwUgMbxsZY3DXUbM57SdAQGudwP+MOWhcL+ZtoPDMjZg/qcUyLINlp/0y2/o 9K/bluz0C5Q62wN+9NV3FCghdtdUTYjPd0bMUKVjRds0jedAq5yOqoc3nTamiqa2 Y1ybm7gnlpqubrbVlFnlFLRJspDva6wZfD8Hdzrd0X/BfWIJYLv17epZYue3WCDF zsW2B0n4GNK0N1JpY2hhcmQgQ2hhcmxlcyBHcmF2ZXMgPGxsdXJjaEBuZXR3b3Jr aW5nLnN0YW5mb3JkLmVkdT6JARUDBRAxQg5/iBwV98nhsvEBAXEfB/9KaEAILYNA sNMiIhjcgJWYXh0bfpgNA53wch4jcwpUtn7btnfvpiHXBsfzGhkbNjjVRUqjRzwF 3MvwZvj+ABCIe+JKD2HEZZDe1GH5Bx/OKNWnTxfNQK4oy1pjwQ+mTVHYj1c+P4qb naPW8BLc6rL1jKtDjH0Jm/xC5f1H7dtSTPewv/n4JrcBZFeneOnPOJoM33NQbOgJ 9VEEe3OvW7QbLxwuMKxKwBiOG7BMJDDb/SHanqZo1lExbDXUuAiI18tKW3E9s87t CkJukLJWvXUOA3e2DWN4IDfvFde80NPYbSVbpzLvuLYwxK+iAGshifXVXZe49Cr1 IvTKM+pwI4CeiQBVAwUQMUJ+W/thU5e7emAFAQFMIQH/VilvyRTg23royZQpuk5F YXHEued4yyApNXPthCxZIYe24nUlcgpY4QWKy++nmUV25OGJR6Y2WsC2z0XIWygZ zYkAlQMFEDFAYX1pqHkdFx/OXQEBYGgEAJDoATPIWIxriQa5tadTAu3bGvVv2zkb d0GPXTfr16m/GvLiJ5lmCYqcsKuB/TFcDx/mpKRKQ1kxwOKUwd/W5aSFN5keIlDW xv0XbGVsHfA+k0vUDQ8drEPd5TdIRvNzPqm2bZyVnGslfvYsFM5nSj2GdrkZgxR2 jxBprZhaES0giQCVAwUQMTjO/hRnBgsaWCnFAQHpNAP/ZoZhHA/JzAecCXPETJIf 9zjPKi4Ih465nxwnhXXwUtNVMFjq7SfJWGSPr/Ei+PE+TKunoGY0/FxV38uyFxXR Cu2OD3JMIv24NfnUHPnRq/0Hd/NFknGcL1YMXz2DZ63sPO/8Q8GCxXsQ+503DRS2 EUEUSL3ncsukpyPEOb1Sk1WJAJUDBRAxOM8dFIEgbOEpZk0BAR8NBADNJx2lstV7 FziO7O/Aq50mF/oqy4ccAPGzEr2bzGHsP2p7eOG+YJIGI4OrZljoKfhnTtEHiRtu Fl0m0HsvMVK1Gqbzr+j47gpCDv81WEQae5lNHy5/xWGItEPRZj3EWke8fJWh8HaL f0sSgGaYtFjj4x7E524NONHlvln21VjWbIkAlQMFEDE4zlEaFuRhG5FXbQEBPs8E AIQjJgfAdyLxYz/IQy8dCxviausupCtvKKoKdsLj9Q6WN68tjqtjFJI2QHltyjVT 5cyUTpFfegb0PnBmagvkC9fZF3o7N8Mlf0tPV77w9fbjZ7E7pcGdU4S3PNeDvTAb ChVokB6NigAzXKyaJDlPRAJszF+GOt83HYbOtZWzLEVwiQCVAwUQMTjOsCe8yKJt SqxdAQEPEwQArHWrSOHWL7m4ZK1QIEQdpwlZySJM5w53wBS1APp7/MtE39/7/nTp 4FPs5e0Vx/AYMyWHuSo2NNL+iFmGNYrQzAn3wu866gFefjIabx/g0BaklvH/5RwT IXq78R+//W41UEKu7X4SI4pwg5xNroUsCWdc3id8O4uZiwWydu/ocn6JAJUDBRAx OM4vQK1BjWmSq00BAXXeA/48YpMA9xc02wqScPo+dVPG5EP+K2wSgjoflkjhTkJ2 N+NNcSihmbKbviHZc/NIcpbw+3pKGZNllv0FemlPNUfvvm5ILKv88w9nHK4DXLEt c/BOuCJtHnNqU2edBET6mVOnqKyoTIyYLF3gRQusoxB+P9snPEgjMqGJezekI6tk DYkAlQMFEDCFUk6Nw11GzOe0nQEBqD0D/27O7hOU+DehP4vT1Sb5deYI/bFHoOks TrlGixC+lAsYMigsz3CFzE8XTNzohVQm1iaeO/43YHrr7cLOTfhep41u4Ag0iSUm zzDv0iQyAiolsypcZ49wBc8m3VsJVHpUVMG0qmf34xUxXuNUT4BxgGvXEYjEV8eQ M3350OT5u9i+iQCVAwUQMTjO0tlBWyzhG2y5AQGk/wQAxDjtawWTI8vv7sW1V2dy qbEJ/76Gfgzv/W6pP3MJVrcDesU7/qQ4aSdPAIP7Ac7RXySMMsrdiRQXFKDHW4I4 78aF1A2HjvlMcrdNR+aldaHkyc+ffv3Z0Y1v3ov+GQM9V2KHdtMXOE3e8PlEg5xF iOfwWTpihvCMXeM0P+8t+rGJAJUDBRAxOM6P5PUudM+LRA0BAciKA/0bts6s+xKW eqUMdUjnLclC+Zi50OKhS8LuS8RKLSmo5885eiSMqAaOQYjV924EPBmfsNhWsS3G 51jSxGHj8E/2b3rjsUWOW+O5Lq7DM8W4b0IuQkFINEwgfZ6T5MUc1iPQtYo8l/7W vR3lAhLFQRmnQgGr8at+ekNumeckasFeALQsUmljaCBFbmNyeXB0ZWQgRHJvcGJv eCA8bGx1cmNoQGFscGhhLmMyLm9yZz60QEZvciBndWFyYW50ZWVkIHNlY3VyaXR5 LCB1c2UgMHg2OTkyQUI0RCBmb3IgcmljaC5ncmF2ZXNAZm9yc3l0aGW0KlIuIENo YXJsZXMgR3JhdmVzIDxyY2dyYXZlc0BpeC5uZXRjb20uY29tPrQkUmljaCBHcmF2 ZXMgPGFuMjc0MDc0QGFub24ucGVuZXQuZmk+tBdKdXN0IFJpY2ggPHJpY2hAYzIu b3JnPg== =aVAl -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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RE: Slander of Catholic Church
by Blanc Weber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: Cardinal Timothy May > >(Who believes all cults and religions are basically the same shuck and >jive, and who thinks the "Church of Scientology" is actually a little >bit >less foolish that the Church of Mormon, with its "baptism of dead >ancestors" into the Church, the funny underwear people have to secretly >wear, etc. However, I have great respect for the practical tactics of >the >Mormons, and no respect for the day to day behavior of the CoS.) ................................................................ With apologies to Perry, who could give a flip, my day will not be complete until Tim tells us about the funny underwear (and how he knows about it). > .. >Blanc

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