December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Bubba
by tcmay＠sensemedia.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:19 PM 7/13/95, Robert A. Hayden wrote: >40,000,000 acts. Welcome to a 6x6 cell with a roommate named Bubba that >wants to make you his wife. Careful here, Robert! Bubba has not yet been tried and convicted. I admit that the allegations about Mena, drugs, Whitewater, S & Ls, and abuse of state office are fairly serious, but he has not yet even been formally charged. --Tim May .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)sensemedia.net | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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VENONA web page
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Responding to msg by jim(a)acm.org (Jim Gillogly) on Thu, 13 Jul 10:18 AM > >Check out http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/irp/venona/ Amazing IC links from this stepstone. Ebony NRO with a nascent homepage! Must be budget-cut-itis.

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Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995
by mclow＠coyote.csusm.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

No one seems to have pointed this out, so: (maybe it's obvious to everyone else) > "Sec. 1030A. Racketeering-related crimes involving computers > "(a) It shall be unlawful-- > > . . . > > "(2) to distribute computer software that encodes or encrypts > electronic or digital communications to computer networks that the > person distributing knows, or reasonably should know, is accessible to > foreign nationals and foreign governments, regardless of whether such > software has been designated nonexportable." > IANAL, but it seems to me that if I EMAIL a copy of PGP to, say, Tim May, that I have just "distributed computer software .... to a computer network ...accessible to foreign nationals ..." even though it was "private" e-mail. Comments, anyone? Anyone? Bueller? ;-) >Get a copy of this bill from: > ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/c104/s974.is.FTP >and read it. > Betcher ass. -- Marshall "The constitution. It's not perfect, but it's a damn sight better than what we've got."

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mistake on my part
by perry＠imsi.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I made a small mistake -- the new bill does *not* make it a crime to make crypto software available at Egghead -- but it does more or less make distribution of crypto software over the internet impossible if it isn't an escrow based system. Perry

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Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995
by koontz＠MasPar.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> IANAL, but it seems to me that if I EMAIL a copy of PGP to, say, Tim >> May, that I have just "distributed computer software .... to a computer >> network ...accessible to foreign nationals ..." even though it was >> "private" e-mail. > >Depends on how "computer network" is defined in the statute. Its added language. "computer network" is not defined. Catcha' 22.

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DefCon roomshare?
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anyone interested in sharing a room at DefCon? I'm fairly unobtrusive, don't smoke, and am neat enough to live with for a few days. :) Also, I'm looking for a (English text) letter frequency table. Anyone have one online? Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty I Support The Phil of any kind is lost all at Zimmermann legal defense fund once." -Hume http://www.netresponse.com/zldf ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [001/713] ------------------- M4$L#!!0````(`">9ZQX3(*,_DG8!`-JF`P`'````4$=0+D581>S;=UQ3U__X M\9M!$E8,TT(a)PJ$10$1=*41%WW`KX$=Q[M5KK`&R%(HH+(T.M"S>NME8K=31N M:A$[K+5(K:O5BE405ZE:1"3?UTW`:K_]\/G\?O_^?CX>3^_-S;GGO,^\`^@W ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/

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New Country Conference
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I should have mentioned this before but: New Country Conference This Saturday July 15th The New Country Foundation's first annual conference. Gramercy Park Hotel (Lexington Avenue & 21st Street) New York City 9:30am Admission is $35.00 at the door Speakers: Mike Oliver, author of "A New Constitution for a New Country." Richard Morris, President of Sea Structures, Inc. -- Developer of the Seacell floating platform technology. and a number of others. Info from Marc Joffe at 71045.142(a)compuserve.com. I will be there representing the "New Country in Cyberspace" heresy. DCF "Don't waste your time and money forming a new country in the physical realm. Bits are cheaper than atoms and encrypted bits are stronger than the strongest atoms."

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Grassley's Anti-Ridiculous Act
by Tom Gillman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK...let's see... "shall be unlawful for any person to damage or threaten to damage electronically or digitally stored data..." Does that mean i can't erase my floppies anymore? :) Or, is it that I can't say, "I'm gonna format you!" and then not do it? Scratching your CDs would be illegal. When you get down to it, your brain is an electrochemical computer. You're no longer allowed to forget anything, either. "But storage in your brain is not digital!", you say.. Electronically _or_ digitally stored. Swapfiles are right out. Writeable memory is out in general. "unlawful to distribute unlicensed software..." There goes shareware. Freeware's still okay, I guess. Do many people treat shareware as anything more than freeware? The Steve JAckson clause at the end about work materials is cute, but the law doesn't seem to require giving the data back. And the clause about being able to enter evidence obtained electronically via 3rd party is interesting. Means an administrator can legally store email and turn it over... This bill is so monumentally stupid I can't believe it. Tom -- Tom Gillman, Unix/AIX Systems Weenie |"For a privacy advocate to determine Wells Computer Center-Ga. State Univ. |the best way to do key escrow is like (404) 651-4503 syshtg(a)gsusgi2.gsu.edu |a death penalty opponent choosing I'm not allowed to have an opinion. |between gas or electricity"-D.Banisar key to UNIX: echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq'|dc

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The Anti-Racketeering fiasco meets Mozilla
by roy＠cybrspc.mn.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I was just talking with a friend, and had the most vile thought. Mallet works part time for the Justice Department. His job is entrapment of random individuals. He has a Web server running the Netscape Commerce Server. When a potential victim is lured into looking at Mallet's home page with Mozilla, the poor sap is rewarded by a server-side push of some small piece of contraband software. Many victims will simply move off the page, forgetting that the document is now in their Netscape cache. They're toast. Others might clear their cache, but the server still shows that the file was sent. They're now guilty of both receiving and concealing contraband. And maybe destruction of evidence and/or interfering with law enforcement. I'm only raving like this because the whole Anti-Racketeering bill has me both scared and really pissed off. - -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy(a)cybrspc.mn.org PGP Public Key fingerprint = 31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54 13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6 Key available from pubkey(a)cybrspc.mn.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMAWbGBvikii9febJAQExKgP9HApgUEHkIaABuiQ/Lx4jfcfG6WUT7r6U TgiQ83+yvYBt2EeWIlF3uqUN4PEO8cLYsDjthpesI8nDV2HpjTCbiZ0g+zGJlOmi ps8vfRRK0A8elyCkTy2b4NlwR4Kre6iqYJfr9+ZA1rW019ZfvullZw9TAPDrhfLj cP780NHfhn4= =sRJY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: HR361
by Rich Salz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Has anyone previously noted that HR361, the omnibus export administration act, would require the administration to assess the impact of the current crypto export controls on the software industry? I don't recall seeing mention of it, but this has been planned for awhile. There were a couple of crypto surveys, one by private industry (software publisher's association) and one by TIS for the gov't. I think. Both were mentioned in this list. /r$

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