December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Political News from Wired News
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/6605.html Senators Embrace Mandatory Data Keys by Wired News Staff 12:03pm 4.Sep.97.PDT In a major advance for hard-line proponents of giving the government wide access to electronic data, several influential senators have declared their support of mandatory key recovery features for all encryption-enabled software sold in the United States. At a Judiciary subcommittee meeting Wednesday, Senator Dianne Feinstein was among those who came out strongly in support of the position taken by FBI Director Louis Freeh that mandatory key recovery is essential to deterring crime. "Nothing other than some kind of mandatory key recovery really does the job," the California Democrat said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee's technology, terrorism, and government information subcommittee. "The public-safety issue is a paramount one." The subcommittee's chairman, Senator Jon Kyl (R-Arizona), added that he was "in complete agreement." The Clinton White House, like past administrations, have, along with major police and spy agencies, been strong supporters of such measures. But in Congress, sweeping measures to give government agents an easy-open back door to scrambled data have been met with strong opposition and legislation that cuts in the opposite direction. Bills in both the House and Senate have sought to exclude mandatory key recovery systems as a requirement not only for US software-makers and users but also for export products. The Senate version of this liberalized policy is, practically speaking, dead, supplanted by the Secure Public Networks Act by Senators Bob Kerrey (D-Nebraska) and John McCain (R-Arizona). The bill offers incentives to software manufacturers for building key recovery features into their products. In the House, a liberalization bill by Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia) is not only alive but has gained a majority of members as cosponsors. The software industry, civil liberties advocates, and privacy groups on both the right and the left have opposed mandatory key recovery. Some opponents were stunned by Wednesday's hearing. "It was really shocking to hear how casually senators and the FBI director talked about imposing domestic controls," said Alan Davidson, staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. "They've crossed a new line in this debate." "It appears that Senator Feinstein wants a Constitution- free zone for the Internet," said David Banisar, staff counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Reuters contributed to this report.

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clipper.csc.uvic.ca moved?
by nobody＠neva.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone know if clipper.csc.uvic.ca has moved to another location?

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Plunger Pervert Returns to Work
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Officer Volpe is back on the job, on modified duty minus his badge and gun. Apparently the union contract prohibits suspensions over 30 days in length. Gee - you'd think someone like that would be in jail on multimillion dollar bail as a "suspected sex offender." If he is convicted, will laws require him to register for life and notify his neighbors when he moves in next door to them? I certainly wouldn't want this sadistic pervert with his fixation on minority anuses living next door to me. If he weren't a cop, they probably would have searched his house immediately looking for evidence of other crimes. I'll bet Officer Volpe has a really unusual porn and dildo collection. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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U.S. Prison Labor
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone have pointers to information/details about U.S. prison inmates being used as slave labour for international corporations? Thanx

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Re: Big Brother is watching
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 9/4/97 1:17 AM, Lucky Green (shamrock(a)netcom.com) passed this wisdom: >BTW, just for the record, I believe that we live in a consumer society and >the People choose the government they want. The average person doesn't care >who thinks for them as long as they don't have to think for themselves and >can pretend to themselves that it was in fact they who did the thinking. .. among other things, I teach school. Mostly one on one tutoring and occasional Calculus or Physics fill-in ... (nice when you already have a pension to be able to work leisurely and play with your computer!) I am in the process of rereading "Fahrenheit 451" - the recent printing of this in paperback features a Marquis that says somethig like "Now, more relevant than ever" - as much as I hate having someone else tell me what to think ... they certainly seem to be right. It has been over twenty years since I read it and now ... it surely seems to be right on the path mentioned above and then some ... William Lederer also had it right years ago when he penned "A Nation of Sheep" Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys - Send Email Subject "Get PGP Key" "...Those of you who turned your swords into plowshares will soon find yourselves under the yokes of those of us who kept our swords..." -- author unknown

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MORE DISINTERMEDIATION
by frissell＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:33:33 -0400 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com From: Duncan Frissell <frissell(a)panix.com> Subject: More Disintermediation According to Monday's USA Today, the Customs Service has come up with a plan to stop stopping international travelers arriving at US airports. Apparently they can't afford "personal" service any more. With 60 million arrivals, Customs has decided to mingle a bit in luggage claim, look for those meeting its profiles, and use drug- and food-sniffing dogs to catch smugglers. Note that international travel has doubled in the last few years. What is Customs (and La Migra) going to do when it doubles again. It is much easier for market phenomenons like this to double or triple than it is for government agencies to double or triple. Markets scale well. Governments don't. DCF "When foreigners steal 'our' jobs, our labor is freed for other tasks and total world product increases. Jobs can no more 'run out' than desire for things in general can 'run out'."

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SSL SUGGESTIONS
by goedel＠tezcat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 03:14:10 -0600 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com From: goedel(a)tezcat.com (Dietrich J. Kappe) Subject: SSL Suggestions -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Many people have suggested improvements to the techinical side of brutessl. I don't think anyone has looked at the user interface side of things. A simple configure script, and a few more reasonable defaults would bring quite a few more volunteers. I know of at least a handful of people who did not contribute because they were overwhelmed by the unfriendly scripts. While a rough user interface could serve as a basic intelligence test, I don't think that this sort of exclusion is necessary, given the nature of the task. DJK -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBgAwUBMEQrvHIf3YegbdiBAQE1pAJYnoXhffJeTrfiEm8R1fDGMuuZCpATw9gL M+A+LawHiPFeoHtcHp3ZBkhzOqEFS6MfMJ1wjbt9e3ILSJkVGC71OrkpiNcDBMKY 0G9G =3NIJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Dietrich J. Kappe | Red Planet http://www.redweb.com/ Red Planet, L.L.C.| "Chess Space" /chess 1-800-RED 0 WEB | "MS Access Products" /cobre Web Publishing | PGP Public Key /goedel/key.txt

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Re: CIA & Espionage
by hallam＠w3.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 11:16:01 -0400 From: hallam(a)w3.org >In a german weekly news magazine (Focus 34/1995, p. 178-181) I read an >article about industrial espionage. It is said that the secret >services have lost their main task when the east/west cold war had >gone. Their new task is the industrial espionage. The russian, french, >and american services were referenced in the article. The cold war isn't so decisive. Much of espionage has always been industrial. I is an essential component of political espionage in any case. Millitary espiong may get the headlines but the bulk of the work is trawling through trade stats and various open networks in embassies etc. In any case with the breakup of the USSR there are now more states to watch and because they are unstable more need to watch them. Phill

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by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE?
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:22:13 -0700 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com From: tcmay(a)got.net (Timothy C. May) Subject: Economic Espionage? At 1:25 AM 8/31/95, Tatu Ylonen wrote: >> >It was said that Pres. Clinton had given a speech while >> >visiting the CIA HQ in Langley/Virginia. He allegedly >> >said in this speech that obtaining industrial >> >informations has the highest priority and this were the >> >new task for the spies. > >There was a fairly large article about this in Helsingin Sanomat, the >largest newspaper in Finland, some weeks ago. It was quoted as being >originally from the New York Times. (I have the clip saved at home >and can check the date if anyone is interested.) > >I do find it rather shocking that the most powerful country in the >world sets industrial espionage as the primary task of their >intelligence services. What confirmation can you give us for this statement? I'd like to see the actual comments, not just second-hand reports. The issue of economic surveillance has come up several times, and I know of no formal policy to institute such a program. The U.S., with generally multiple competitors in each market, would have a hard time figuring out who to tell "foreign secrets" to. Would Ford be told? Or just General Motors? What about companies with operations in multiple countries? Former DIRNSA (Director of the NSA) William Odom has said repeatedly that economic espionage cannot plausibly be a central task of the NSA. Before anyone accuses me of being an apologist for the NSA (usually these claims arrive anonymously), I've been looking for evidence of an economic intelligence role or mission of the U.S. intelligence agencies for more than 7 years. Let's see some evidence. --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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