December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: FC: The tensions between Internet advocacy groups
by Marc Rotenberg 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Danny - I think where the free expression groups differ fundamentally from the position CDT has set out is that we do not believe that the Net should be dominated by rating systems. We recognize that parents have some legitimate concerns about the availability of objectionable material. But we think that there are alternatives to widespread ratings -- including learning more about the benefits of the Internet -- that are preferable. We also recognize that there is a risk that Congress will try to pass CDA II. But we believe that it will be difficult for such an act to survive Constitutional review after Reno v. ACLU. We are perhaps more concerned that an architecture of ubiquitous ratings will provide, as Barry Steinhardt said well at the summit, a blueprint for legislation that would be upheld. What exactly does CDT plan to say to the enthusiastic member of Congress who backs your rating plan and wants to see it enforced with sanctions? What are your own views about a filtering search engine that block access to 99% of the references concerning the "American Red Cross"? A diversity of rating systems is the not the same as a diversity of viewpoints. It is rather a diversity of fears and prejudices. I hope we never see the day when national organizations are routinely called upon to draw up lists of what they do not want others to see. I suspect that those who are concerned about the future of free expression share this view. Marc Rotenberg EPIC

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Censorship
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There are two pieces of code included in this message. Or, at least, there would be if I were allowed to express my ideas. Accordingly, the first piece of code has been carefully censored. The second piece of code is a Perl script which does the censoring. The model is that of a tape which the censor lays across anything "offensive." The Perl script has -C and -Perl modes which try to preserve comments. (They can be fooled, so you should look over the results before distributing.) You can also specify the string which is "printed" on the tape. The idea is that every time I write a piece of code which I cannot distribute freely, a censored version will be mailed to appropriate newsgroups, mailing lists, newspapers, and politicians. This should have the effect of continually raising and dramatizing the issue, as well as demonstrating repeatedly how ridiculous it is. 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GOVERNMENT CENSORED BY THE UNITED S T A TES GOVERNMENT CENSORED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CENSORED BY THE UNITE D STATES GOVERNMENT CENSORED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CENS ORED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CENSORED BY THE UNITED S TATES GOVE RNMENT CEN SORED BY T HE UNITED STATES GOV E -------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w require 5; use strict; $main::censor_string = "CENSORED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT "; $main::next_censor_char = 0; $main::c_mode = 0; $main::Perl_mode = 0; sub main { my($switch); while( $switch = shift(@ARGV) ) { if( $switch =~ /^-/ ) { if( $switch eq "-C" ) { $main::c_mode = 1; } elsif( $switch eq "-Perl" ) { $main::Perl_mode = 1; } elsif( $switch eq "-s" ) { if( scalar(@ARGV) > 0 ) { $main::censor_string = shift(@ARGV); } else { die "usage: censor.pl [-C] [-Perl] [-s censor-string]\n"; } } else { die "usage: censor.pl [-C] [-Perl] [-s censor-string]\n"; } } else { die "usage: censor.pl [-C] [-Perl] [-s censor-string]\n"; } } @main::censor_char_list = split(//, $main::censor_string); while(<>) { chomp; if( $main::c_mode && /^\s*\/\*.*\*\/\s*$/ ) { print "$_\n"; } elsif( $main::c_mode && /^(\s*)(\S*.*\S|\S)(\s*\/\*.*\*\/\s*)$/ ) { my($censored) = get_censor_chars(length($2)); print "$1$censored$3$4\n"; } elsif( $main::Perl_mode && /^\s*#.*$/ ) { print "$_\n"; } elsif( $main::Perl_mode && /^(\s*)(\S*.*\S|\S)(\s*#.*)$/ ) { my($censored) = get_censor_chars(length($2)); print "$1$censored$3\n"; } elsif( /^(\s*)(\S.*\S)(\s*)$/ ) { my($censored) = get_censor_chars(length($2)); print "$1$censored$3\n"; } elsif( /^(\s*)(\S)(\s*)$/ ) { my($censored) = get_censor_chars(length($2)); print "$1$censored$3\n"; } else { print "$_\n"; } } } sub get_censor_chars { my($length) = shift; my($i); my(@char_list); for( $i=0; $i < $length; $i++ ) { push(@char_list, $main::censor_char_list[$main::next_censor_char]); $main::next_censor_char = ($main::next_censor_char + 1) % length($main::censor_string); } my($censored_string) = join('', @char_list); return $censored_string; } main(); Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm Subject: Censorship To: cypherpunks(a)algebra.com 25BA1A9F5B9010DD8C752EDE887E9AF3 [Cantsin Protocol No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Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan wrote: >Jamie, I may have missed the fab 50s but I suspect you spent a little too >much time in the psychadelic 60s. In 1997, a leftist can best be defined >as a big government fetishist. :) Oh my, this appears to suggest "leftist" means "liberal," the evil twin of evil libertarianism. Some, one or two or least, leftists are far right of the hard right in opposing big government, and even beyond that in opposing big business (Time-Warner, say, or ACLU), and ever further oppositon to big ambitions for big heads prescribing nostrums for the nation and the world under universalizing creeds of liberty, freedom and, well you know how liberals and kissing cousin libertarians lip and gum. Say, how do you distinguish between the two libers in matters of wanting to tell the world what's good for it, wanting to run it just so? Wasn't it the '60s radicals who pronounced pox on feverish liberals and rabid libertarians for their righteous complicity in gov, com, edu, etc., their common inability to forgo wanting to run things from the top, to hang out with the most influential, ahem, each other's dear friends, the "leaders"? Fabulous Ralph Naders, all.

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Transcript of Gore's remarks at "Censorware Summit"
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just had an incorrect thought that I've decided to share with everyone: The reason Al Gore (and the others) are focusing on helping All the Little Children, is that this is the only group they can offer assistance to in the U.S. who would accept it. Everyone else is stocking up on guns & ammo, waiting for The Big One. .. Blanc

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Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
by Phillip M. Hallam-Baker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Indeed, and in a wonderful case of schadenfreude, when the >Dworkin-MacKinnon anti-porn law was enacted in Canada, "Lesbitan Erotica" >bookstores and publishers were shut down. (I believe this was in Toronto, >and it may have only been in that city or region that the law was enacted, >not in all of Canada. Toto can clarify.) Tim you miss the best part one of the first books to be banned was by Dworkin. Dworkin writes with a pseudo academic style but despite a third of her book being 'references' very little of her argument is supported. She deliberately quotes out of context and tries to claim feminist icons such as Simone de Beauvoir for her cause despite the fact that "Mrs Jeane Paul Satre" was anti censorship. Don't write the feminists off too quickly Tim, de Beauvoir's essay 'Must we burn de Sade' is the anti-censorship equivalent of your cypherpunk manifesto. MacKinnon is a more respectable flake. Her book 'Towards a Feminist theory of the state" starts off explaining that she is trying to construct a Marxist theory of the state. Even this wouldn't be quite so bad if what she was writing had some recognisable connection to anything Marx wrote. Its more a sort of left wing US academia game in which the object is to shock your liberal friends. Phill

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blowback
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Fed made up UFO stories to cover military flights. Later on, morons who believe this end up breaking into Feds computers looking for evidence. Ah, irony. Blowback is what Intelligence calls it when, e.g., soldiers you trained and armed to repel your mutual enemy do so, then turn on you. >> > More Naked Gun than Top Gun >> > >> > THE THREE year long case of the world's most notorious >> > "information warfare" attack on US government computer systems >> > collapsed last Friday. On a grey morning in a south London >> > court, a 23-year-old computer programmer from Cardiff walked >> > free as crown prosecutors told the judge it wasn't worth the >> > cost of trying to hold his trial. They acknowledged that he had >> > posed no threat to security. >> > >> > But Matthew Bevan, who was obsessed with the X-Files and the >> > search for alien spacecraft, and his 16-year-old accomplice, >> > Richard Pryce, had achieved a notoriety out of all proportion >> > to their actions. They were "Kuji" and "Datastream Cowboy" - >> > hackers whose haphazard penetration of US Air Force and defense >> > contractors' computers have been portrayed since 1994 as the >> > work of foreign agents and the greatest electronic danger yet >> > to hit the US Air Force on its home turf. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Information is a dense, colorless, odorless material readily transmitted across empty space and arbitrary boundaries by shaking charged particles.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

AMEN. > >so far to the left comes out a libertarian rightist. No, this chick Dworkin > >is so far left she's just plain _left_. She argues that porn for womyn (or > >is it wimmin?) is fine and dandy, because this represents lesbian > >sisterhood exploring their own blah blah blah, but porn aimed and directed > > > > What you watch is pornography; > What I watch is erotica. >

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Fear of a Random Planet...
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

the following excerpt from tomorrow's WSJ... {snip} YELLOW C's NOW AVAILABLE... Be the first on your block to comply with HR-666/S-7, the 'Freedom and Sane Conservation in Social Technology' (FASCIST) Law, recently signed by Chancellor Clinton... As you know, new Federal Regulations require all cryptographers, both professional and amateur, to register with the State Department, surrender their passports, and sign Form 11065-R (Int'l Travel Prohibition Ban Consent Decree). The recent amnesty granted to the cryptographic community due to the shortage of YELLOW C badges ends January 1, 1998. The badges are now available at your local Post Office, Federal Building, or authorized Microsoft retailer. Remember, 'Export a Cryptographer, Go to Jail!' {/snip} love and kisses, CPL Kaos.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Unless there was decryption hardware in the monitor itself. Then I suppose you'd have to video the screen as each new "always encrypted" "totally secure" frame came up. > > On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote: > > > > Persistent Cryptographic Wrappers (RightsWrapper) - No matter where the > > digital document (financial newsletter, educational test, minutes from a > > court proceeding, sensitive health care records, etc.) goes, no matter > > how it gets there, whether it is used and then subsequently > > redistributed, etc. the document is always encrypted. It is never left > > decrypted and exposed even while it is being viewed. > > They have lost their mind. Since humans are notoriously bad at performing > decryptions in their head in real time, whatever is sent to the display > *must* be cleartext. Any competent programmer can grab it at that point. > > -- Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. > "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?" > --

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